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New York's East River Waterfront To Get Facelift

The $150 million project will keep the same sense of history of the docks, while updating for the future.

June 29, 2005 - The New York Times

Complete Security From Terrorist Attacks Not Realistic

While plans to rebuild at Ground Zero go through yet another revision of security measures, one commentator asks when is enough too much?

June 23, 2005 - Slate

Yankees To Get A New Stadium

Plans were unveiled to build a replica of the old Yankees Stadium across the street from its current location.

June 16, 2005 - The New York Times

Queens -- NYC's Fall-Back Borough

Once again, Queens is preparing to bail out its other, more glamorous boroughs, this time by offering itself for a new stadium in time for the 2012 Olympic bid.

June 15, 2005 - The New York Times

Mets Set On Jets Nyet

New York City's Olympic dreamers get themselves a new stadium site, just a subway ride away from the old one.

June 15, 2005 - The Slatin Report

Failure To Build NY Stadium Reflects Disturbing Post 9/11 Trend

The vote to axe plans for a West Side stadium only the latest indication that New Yorkers may be facing a 'culture of inertia'.

June 9, 2005 - The New York Times

No New Stadium For New York

Lower Manhattan's bid for a new stadium suffers a fatal blow.

June 7, 2005 - The New York Times

Push For University Employees To Become Home Owners

Albany institutions of higher education contribute funds to lure workers to buy homes in near-campus neighborhoods.

June 4, 2005 - Times Union

WTC a 'Planning Catastrophe'?

The controversy over what to build at ground zero has been complicated, but is also "very New York". The real catastrophe would be to let the crater sit empty any longer than it must.

June 3, 2005 - Newsday

Recycling Technology

A proposed bill in NYC would force electronics companies to take back outdated equipment.

May 26, 2005 - The New York Times

Greenwich Village Gentrifies

A park redesign symbolizes Greenwhich Village's bohemian past and gentrified future.

May 24, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

A Letter From Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs writes a letter to New York City Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council.

May 23, 2005 - The Brooklyn Rail

A Clean-Energy Mega-Mall

Who would believe that the next big thing in renewable energy is being driven by a tenacious commercial developer with strong GOP affiliations and 25 mega-malls under his belt?

May 21, 2005 - Grist Magazine

WTC Redesign: Trump Vs. Libeskind

Celebrity developer Donald Trump clashes with celebrity architect Daniel Libeskind over the redesign of the World Trade Center.

May 20, 2005 - The Australian

Design For New World Trade Center Cultural Complex Revealed

The design will work hand in hand with the already proposed Performing Arts Center complex.

May 20, 2005 - The New York Times

Chaos To Condos: Lower Manhattan's Rebirth

rly four years after 9/11, there are more homes, grassy parks -- and new challenges, too.

May 19, 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor

Idle Island?

New York City and State want -- and need -- the very best in developmentproposals for historic Governor's Island.

May 17, 2005 - The Slatin Report

Does New York Need A New Stadium?

The 2012 Games in New York City might be in jeopardy if the stadium deal falls through.

May 15, 2005 - The New York Times

Washington Square Park to Go Clean?

A much needed makeover of New York's Washington Square Park may completely change the anything-goes tradition of this well-known urban space.

May 13, 2005 - The New York Times

The Return Of Urban Renewal In New York

New York's deputy mayor for economic development, Daniel L. Doctoroff, has a grand and energetic vision for New Yorks' urban renewal. Flavors of Robert Moses are evoked.

May 9, 2005 - Harvard Design Magazine

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