On this page you will find a listing of events with topics relevant to our course. You can earn your second blog post or extra credit by attending and writing, then posting, a 3–5 page review blog.
MARCH
A Livable New York: The Future of Community Green Space and Affordable
Housing
Monday, March 11 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
The Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
The New School
New York, NY
More information & RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-livable-new-york-the-future-of-community-green-space-and-affordable-housing-tickets-56512735112
Little Italy’s Elizabeth Street Garden
<https://www.elizabethstreetgarden.com/> is a community sculpture garden
with over 100,000 visitors a year and year-round free public programs.
Currently, the City and NYC Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) plan
to destroy the garden to develop affordable housing, office space, and
luxury retail, despite a proposed alternative site for the planned
development. These propositions have set up a false choice between the
community’s needs for public green space and affordable housing, and
reflect crucial issues with City planning and the livability of New York.
Join community garden representatives, activists, and scholars, as they
explore access to public green space and the availability of affordable
housing in a constantly changing city through the lens of Elizabeth Street
Garden.
The panel will be moderated by Kai Wright, a WNYC reporter and host of the
podcast “There Goes The Neighborhood.” Introductory remarks will be
provided from Mia White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at
The New School, and Joseph Reiver, Executive Director of the Elizabeth
Street Garden.
Free and open to the public. Seating is first come first served.
Current panelists are:
– Mia White, Assistant Professor of Envrionmental Studies at The New School
– Thomas Angotti, editor of *Zoned Out: Race, Displacement, and City
Planning in New York*
– Raymond Figueroa, President of the NYC Community Garden Coalition
– Charles Birnbaum, President & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation
APRIL
The Green New Deal and New York City
Kiely Hall 270
Wednesday, April 10
12:15 pm to 1:30 pm (Free Hour)
Panelists include Andres Bernal, advisor to U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez; New York City Council Member Costa Constantinides (22nd District); and Leslie Cagan of the People’s Climate Movement. Speakers will address the movement for climate justice, the federal Green New Deal resolution, NYC legislation to reduce GHG emissions from large buildings, and the proposed New York State Climate and Community Protection Act.
Mayor de Blasio’s Flood Protection: What is it and how will it affect our communities?
Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, April 17
6-8:30 pm
Rebuild by Design <http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/> and NYU’s Institute for
Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion about New York City’s
flood protection plan. Mayor Bill de Blasio proposes extending the
waterfront from the Seaport to Battery Park up to 500 feet into the East
River at a cost of up to $10 billion: if done right, this proposal can
integrate benefits such as open space, affordable housing, and job creation
into a plan for flood protection. If done wrong, however, the ramifications
of our choices will last hundreds of years. Join us in a public discussion
of what should be considered as a co-benefit of flood protection.
More information & RSVP:
https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/mayor-de-blasios-flood-protection-what-is-it-and-how-will-it-affect-our-communities/
NYC is Dead?
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Thursday, April 18
6:30 pm
New books, articles and social media post abound proclaiming the death of New York, portraying the metropolis as a cultural wasteland laid barren by chain stores, luxury condos and neoliberalism; while ample evidence exists to support these claims, evidence also exists to refute them with the emergence of new cultural institutions, grassroots arts organizations, and population growth surpassing projections. Which begs the question: is New York City dead?
More information and to RSVP: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1197-nyc-is-dead
