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City of Yes for Housing Opportunity at the City Planning Commission

Advocacy, City Council, City of Yes, Community Board 7, Dept. of City Planning, Zoning

By Megan Fitzpatrick After 15 hours (yes, you heard that right) of public comments, Commissioners’ pushback, and lively debate, the City Planning Commission’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) public hearing came to a...

City of Yes could eliminate public spaces

Advocacy, City Council, City of Yes, Community Board 7, Dept. of City Planning, Zoning

By Megan Fitzpatrick The City Planning Commission (CPC) is still deliberating on their upcoming vote on the massive almost 1,400 pages of zoning text titled City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO). The City’s residents, however, are not sold on the zoning...

The Office for Metropolitan History and the Legacy of Christopher Gray

n 1975, architectural educator, researcher, and writer Christopher Gray founded the Office of Metropolitan History as a repository and resource on the architectural history of New York City buildings. Today, that legacy is overseen by Sam Hightower, building...

The New York Game

Play Ball! It’s baseball season and LW! is pitching a hugely entertaining history of baseball and NYC. Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was...

All the Rage: The Hidden History of the Cycling City

Over the course of history, countless vehicles have moved across our city. But it is the bicycle that has had the longest running claim to New York’s streets: 200 years and counting. This is the story of how that happened. Of how bicycles came and went and came back...

City of Yes for Housing Opportunity at the City Planning Commission

City of Yes could eliminate public spaces

The Office for Metropolitan History and the Legacy of Christopher Gray

The New York Game

All the Rage: The Hidden History of the Cycling City

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