Julia Vitullo Martin
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SIDEWALKS
May 24, 2009 | 7:15amWho knew that sidewalks could inspire passionate debate? Ever since the first ones appeared in Turkey in 1990 💦B.C., they have paved the way for urban discord and political grandstanding....
PUBLIC-HOUSING HOPE
May 18, 2009 | 5:00amIF we had it to do over again, probably no one would rec ommend setting up public housing as it is today -- isolating low-income familie🐲s in densely populated, usually...
HOMELESS HALVED
March 9, 2009 | 4:36amWITHIN hours of last Wednesday's announce ment by the Department of Homeless Services that it 🦩had, over four years, cut New Y🌞ork's street homelessness nearly in half, the Coalition for...
GIMME SHELTER
February 22, 2009 | 8:03am"We live in the most expensive shantytown on earth," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams about hﷺer neighborhood, Brooklyn's Carroll Garde🥀ns. "It's the place we can get bok choy at 3 a.m....
BRONX CHEER
February 21, 2009 | 11:37pmIt's fittiꦓng that Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carr𝕴ion was appointed this week as the White House's urban policy czar. After all, as the long-time poster child for urban degradation and...
BRONX CHEER
February 21, 2009 | 10:44pmIt's fitting that Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrii 1/2i 1/2 1/2n was appointed this week as the White House's 🅰urban policy czar. After all, as the long-time poster child for...
SPRAY IT LOUD!
December 28, 2008 | 5:10amGraffiti Lives Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground by Gregory J. Snyder NYU Press Graffiti lives! proclaims aꦦuthor Gregory Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti...
BIG & BEAUTIFUL FOR HELL'S KITCHEN
December 3, 2008 | 5:53amSHOULD Community Board 4 approve a building that'🌺s gorgeous, but immen🌄se? The board must decide tonight, as it holds a public hearing and vote on the 900-unit mixed-use project, Clinton...
NEW YORK ON THE BLOCK
November 29, 2008 | 7:01pmThe pause in New York City's building boom may have one side benefit: It gives everyone a chance to think. As pr😼ojects skid to a𒀰 halt and buildings get stopped...
NYC'S HOUSING HOPE
November 19, 2008 | 8:41amTHE City Council is to vote today on the city Housing Authority's controversial proposal to build a small number of market-rate units in order to pay for far more subsꦦidized...
NEW YORK FOR SALE
October 12, 2008 | 8:49amTom Angotti, a Hunter College Professor of Planning, says that, for progressive planners🀅, the guiding principle is not the old real estate saw of "location, location, location," but rather dislocation,...
🌌 A🎃 CHANGE FOR A CLEANER QUEENS
September 24, 2008 | 7:51am🙈 THE City Planning Commission will vote today on the Bloomberg administration's plan to transform the Will ets Point peninsula. The proposals would turn what's probably the most polluted 60 acres...
𒈔 "THE NEW URBAN RENEWAL &qu💜ot;
September 7, 2008 | 8:45amSociologist Derek Hyra looks at the nation's two most important historic, urban black neighborhoods - New York's Harlem and Chicago's Bronzeville - and wonders "How did these formerly notorious ghettosꦆ...
๊ "LEONARD BERSTEIN, AMERICAN ORIGINAL"; ♛
August 17, 2008 | 7:42amNew Yorꦐkers take a forgiving stance toward any celebrity, however flamboyant, who keeps them entertained. And few proved more a﷽musing than Leonard Bernstein-with his great shock of hair, piercing eyes,...
EAST SIDE OVERLOAD
August 11, 2008 | 7:59amTHE City Planning Commis sion is set to vote🌺 today on the Hospital for Special Surgery's bid to expand in the East 70s. It should OK the plan - but...💃
RESCUING ROCKAWAY
July 2, 2008 | 8:03amTHE city may at long la🦋st sꦕoon start repairing some of the decades of harm it's inflicted on the Rockaways. A six-mile-long section of the 11-mile peninsula jutting out from...
"HOME GIRL"
June 29, 2008 | 6:26amYou have to admire the guts of buying and renovating a townhouse in 2000 in West Harlem, even if the storytelling in "Home Girl" is cheerful to t♛he po🔴int of...
REVENGE OF THE BAD📖 OLD DAYS 🦄
June 28, 2008 | 10:04pmDoes it feel some days as if New York-- wealthy, successful, seemingly at the top of the world -- is slipp💮ing back into the bad old days of crime, noise,...
'PRESERVATION' POPPYCOCK
June 20, 2008 | 8:21amSO Robert De Niro built a bigger, fatter and steeper penthouse atop his newly opened $43 💦million Greenwich Hotel than the plan the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved in 2004. Even... 🎃
"ꦕ;SONG OF BROOKLYN" ♎
June 1, 2008 | 6:59am𒈔 ♚ In the summer of 2003, Brooklyn developer Paul Travis, who has overseen projects in every borough except Staten Island, remarked that Brooklyn had entered a new phase of life. It...