https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/22/20925383/new-york-rent-tenants-rights-website
“Laws are only as good as the information that’s out there,” says one city official.
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Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories – Streetsblog
A Park Slope community meeting descends into silliness, shoving, and a sinister, cinematic ‘Betrayal on 14th Street.’ Can we please have some sanity?
Opinion | The Suburbs Are Coming to a City Near You – NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/the-suburbs-cities.html
Is a city still a city if urban living is a luxury good?
Foster + Partners reveals a totally timber boathouse on the Harlem River – Archpaper.com
https://archpaper.com/2019/06/foster-partners-reveal-design-boathouse-harlem-river/
Upper Manhattan will soon get a new pitstop for rowers, as Foster + Partners has unveiled their design for a timber boathouse on the Harlem River in Inwood.
New towers in NYC’s future – NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/realestate/new-york-citys-evolving-skyline.html
A high-rise building boom, mostly of luxury condos, has transformed New York City’s skyline in recent years — and there’s more to come.
Why I Found My Community in a Starbucks (Not an ode to the coproration) – CityLab
At least in my Queens neighborhood, Starbucks is one of the only places I could have formed a relationship with friends who sometimes have nowhere else to go.
New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras – Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/29/new-york-facial-recognition-cameras-apartment-complex
More than 130 residents at a Brooklyn apartment complex oppose plan to use the cameras, whose use, experts say, is quietly expanding in cities
The Surprising History of Politics and Design in New York City’s Playgrounds – CityLab
How the concrete jungle got its jungle gyms.
After Hudson Yards, Sunnyside could be New York’s next megadevelopment – archpaper.com
https://archpaper.com/2019/05/sunnyside/
After New York City’s Hudson Yards megadevelopment elicited critical disappointment when it opened, our editor in chief posits Sunnyside could be next.
The Worst Thing About Hudson Yards Isn’t the Architecture – CityLab
Manhattan’s luxury mega-project was financed in part by an investor visa program that was intended to help rural and distressed urban neighborhoods.