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New York City Places and Spaces

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Jan, 2010

Description:

A growing collection of websites selected by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library staff for web archiving preservation by the Columbia University Libraries' Web Resources Collection Program. Website captures began in 2010 and are ongoing; in 2020, to reflect the collection's evolving subject focus, the collection title was changed to 'New York City Places and Spaces' (from the original 'Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning'). The collection's principal thematic focus is documenting the evolution of the built environment and public spaces in and around New York City through the interaction of historic preservation efforts and new development projects within urban planning debates. Selected websites are mostly published by non-profit groups or individuals based in the New York City area, including historic preservation groups, neighborhood associations, community development groups, public policy organizations, parks and open space conservancies, and both sponsors and critics of ongoing development projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Government - Cities Society & Culture Community development,  Public spaces ,  Parks City planning Historic preservation Architecture

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Title: Urban omnibus

URL: http://urbanomnibus.net/

Description: "Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League to create a new kind of conversation about design and New York City ... The Omnibus features multi-media content to showcase design innovation, critical analysis and local expertise across a broad range of topics and locales, creating bridges between various communities of interest."

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Subject:   City planning Design,  Public spaces

Title: Broadway Mall Association

URL: http://www.broadwaymall.org/

Description: "For 30 years, the Broadway Mall Association (BMA) has worked to beautify and maintain the malls. Initially founded as a community organization in 1980 by Eugene Hide to address the neglect of the malls stemming from the City’s fiscal crisis of the 1970s, the BMA became a not-for-profit organization in 1987. Today, BMA remains committed to carrying out Eugene Hide’s vision of the Broadway malls as a beautiful stretch of greenery uniting the diverse neighborhoods along Broadway."

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Subject:   Broadway (New York, N.Y.),  Public spaces ,  Parks

Title: Project for Public Spaces

URL: http://www.pps.org/

Description: "Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities."

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Subject:   City planning,  Public spaces

Title: Seward Park Conservancy

URL: http://www.sewardparkconservancy.org/

Description: "We advocate for the park concerning funding for preservation, renewal and restoration of the park and its facilities in partnership with the Department of Parks."

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Subject:   Parks,  Public spaces

Title: Privately owned public space in New York City

URL: https://apops.mas.org/

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Subject:   Public spaces

Title: Fund for Park Avenue

URL: https://fundforparkavenue.org/

Description: "The planting and maintenance of the Park Avenue malls has been the responsibility of The Fund for Park Avenue since 1980."

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  Parks

Title: Grand Penn Community Alliance

URL: https://grandpenn.org/

Description: "The Grand Penn Community Alliance’s mission is to advocate for a major (complete) renovation of Penn Station to return it to its grand and glorious prominence serving as a world-class, sustainable public space and transportation destination that will transform the neighborhood and serve the needs of commuters, community, businesses, and visitors in an uplifting and gratifying building that relates to the design and architecture of the original Penn Station and the existing Grand Central Terminal."

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  Transportation Railroads Land use Parks Urban development

Title: Neighborhood Empowerment Project

URL: https://openplans.org/

Description: "The Neighborhood Empowerment Project will advocate for the city to create and fund a government structure that supports and enables local public space ownership. This structure will include a local Public Space Manager and maintenance staff that will be housed in each District or City Council office and be mandated to respond to the requests, needs, and ideas of the local stakeholders. This team will implement and maintain changes that turn public spaces into places that work for its residents."

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  Community development

Title: Design Trust for Public Space

URL: https://www.designtrust.org/

Description: "The Design Trust for Public Space is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization committed to improving New York City's parks, plazas, streets, and public buildings."

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Subject:   City planning,  Public spaces

Title: Open streets

URL: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/openstreets.shtml

Description: "New York City's Open Streets program transforms streets into public space open to all. These transformations allow for a range of activities that promote economic development, support schools, facilitate pedestrian and bike mobility, and provide new ways for New Yorkers to enjoy cultural programming and build community."

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Subject:   Street life Pedestrians,  Public spaces

Title: Alliance for Public Space Leadership

URL: https://www.publicspace.nyc/

Description: "Currently, multiple agencies are accountable for managing New York City’s public realm ... We need a new way to integrate our thinking on these critical areas. Our public spaces are better when we think about them together. APSL proposed creating a new Office of the Public Realm that would have a role in decision-making around public works projects, maintenance of the public realm, and the design and function of public space. We enthusiastically support the Mayor’s announcement to create this critical position. New York needs this citywide facilitation to foster effective coordination, allowing individual departments and agencies to do their best work to ensure we all have equitable access to space and resources."

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  City planning

Title: Street Lab

URL: https://www.streetlab.org/

Description: "Street Lab is a nonprofit that creates and shares programs for public space across New York City. We do this work to improve the urban environment, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring New Yorkers together. 300+ times a year, all five boroughs, always in public space. We also send kits around the world to help other cities do the same."

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  Open spaces Community arts projects

Title: Streetopia Upper West Side

URL: https://www.streetopia.city/

Description: "Streetopia Upper West Side is an engaging new campaign from Open Plans that fights for community-driven livability and public space improvements for the Upper West Side of Manhattan."

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Subject:   Public spaces

Title: High Line

URL: https://www.thehighline.org/

Description: Official website of the High Line, a public park in New York City located on Manhattan's West Side. The park and its website are administered by Friends of the High Line, a non-profit, private partner to the New York City Department of Parks \& Recreation.

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Subject:   Public spaces ,  Parks High Line (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Trust for Public Land

URL: https://www.tpl.org/

Description: "The Trust for Public Land works to protect the places people care about and to create close-to-home parks--particularly in and near cities, where 85 percent of Americans live. Our goal is to ensure that every child has easy access to a safe place to play in nature. We also conserve working farms, ranches, and forests; lands of historical and cultural importance; rivers, streams, coasts, and watersheds; and other special places where people can experience nature close at hand."

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Subject:   Public lands,  Public spaces ,  Natural areas Parks

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