The Immigrants & Parks Collaborative
Parks are one of the most often cited and celebrated aspects of our urban public sphere, heralded by urbanists and designers alike for their ability to contribute to public goods from health and...
View ArticleBringing Basements to Code
“Nearly 40% of the new housing created from 1990 to 2005 were illegal apartments. Many of them are in basements or cellars. These units exist because there isn’t enough affordable housing in NYC.”...
View ArticleNever in this Country
Tucson, AZ, 1969 | Photo courtesy of Vishaan Chakrabarti. Xenophobia. Unfunded entitlements. Anti-immigrant zeal. More retirees than workers. Crumbling infrastructure. Failing schools. Threats to...
View ArticleA Walk Through Jackson Heights with Suketu Mehta
“Wherever there are immigrants, there are stories.” This broad observation characterizes and motivates the urbanism of Suketu Mehta, a writer who has dedicated his career to understanding the human...
View ArticleOpen City:Blogging Urban Change
Open City is an interdisciplinary neighborhood blogging project coordinated by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) that aims to take a fresh look at the ever-shifting cultures of Manhattan’s...
View ArticleLifespan of a (Brooklyn) Fact: Can One in Seven Americans Trace Roots to...
Can one in seven Americans really trace their roots to Brooklyn? It’s a decades-old factoid too tantalizing to ignore, too fuzzy to confirm. Since 1980, writers and Brooklyn boosters have eagerly...
View ArticleHow a Satellite Chinatown Is Changing the ‘Burbs
Ranch home in Montville, CT | Photo courtesy of Stephen Fan Montville, Connecticut, a sprawling township north of New London, is home to the state’s only Chinese-bilingual elementary school. The aisle...
View ArticleBronx Farm Helps Refugees Put Down Roots
New Roots Community Farm in Concourse Village, Bronx In March, 2015, Lwin Lwin and Mohammed Haron arrived at JFK airport from Burma as two of approximately 150 refugees the International Rescue...
View ArticleEl Timbiriche: Designing for Wellness in Williamsburg’s Southside
For a design intervention to have social benefits, it doesn’t need to be at the large scale of parks or community master plans. Design at a small and accessible scale can be a tremendously effective...
View ArticleThe Korean Shrine of Fort Greene
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Fort Greene, in the late 1980s | Photo courtesy of Young Nak Presbyterian Church What do Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, the U.S.S. Missouri, and Korean...
View ArticleThe Immigrant Metropolis: An Interview with Nisha Agarwal
Changes in foreign-born population by neighborhood, 2000 to 2007-11 | Courtesy Newest New Yorkers report New York is the world’s most famous cosmopolis, and not in a century — despite concerns that the...
View ArticleWomen in Motion
Every neighborhood has at least one: the firebrand, the tireless advocate, inspiring her neighbors to take their environment into their own hands. Bridge-builders and park-planters, community...
View ArticleWhat’s In a Roofline?
The humble gambrel roofs of Queens’ Dutch Colonial houses cover the borough’s complex history. The post What’s In a Roofline? appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleHousing Court
A housing court case can make the difference between safe at home and out on the street. Jenny Laurie of Housing Court Answers explains how it works and what throws the scales of housing justice out of...
View ArticleOur Fair City
50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing? The post Our Fair City appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleWe The News
As local newspapers dwindle, an artist revives New York’s classic newsstand to collect and circulate more diverse stories about immigration. The post We The News appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleConnecting at the Counter
More than a convenience store, the humble bodega is a deeply networked site where neighborhood life intersects with larger scales of social, cultural and economic exchange — and a growing digital...
View ArticleA Safe Space
Immigrant day laborers, construction workers and domestic workers experience hazardous conditions in the best of times. Worker's Justice Project and its worker centers are building a culture of safety...
View ArticleCornerstone Memories
Justo Martí's midcentury photographs of Manhattan and Brooklyn bodegas provide a rare glimpse at the history of the spaces and signs cementing Latinx life in the city, and highlight the continuing work...
View ArticleMigrating Forms
Immigrant architects and builders transformed New York's working-class housing, once a symbol of despair, into a stock of dignified dwellings — their aspirations etched into the ornamented exteriors of...
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