Brookfield Properties, a giant landlord that keeps a lower profile than some of the city’s single-engine developers, did not come into the West Side Rail Yards competition with an anchor tenant. It did, however, come in with a whole bevy of design firms—seven in all—that proceeded to break just about every rule or convention that Read More
After The Death and Life of Great American Cities came out in 1961, Robert Moses returned the copy he had received to its publisher, with instructions to sell the "libelous" monograph to somebody else. (The letter, mentioned in a recent New York Times review of the Jane Jacobs exhibit up now at the Read More
“How many middle-class families with children do you see being raised in the West Village today?” asked Christopher Klemek, a 33-year-old assistant professor of history, sitting at a table outside the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street late last week.
Mr. Klemek has been pondering the question over the past several months as he Read More
In the midst of all the hype about, reconsideration of and admiration for Robert Moses comes news from the other side: The Municipal Art Society will hold an exhibit this September about his polar opposite, ur-urbanist Jane Jacobs, in conjunction with a new $200,000 prize that the Rockefeller Foundation will fund. The annual Read More
TUESDAY
7:30 a.m. ABNY Breakfast: Mayor Bloomberg and Governor (Jeb) Bush together on stage! This will be cheaper than waiting for their $1,000-a-plate campaing fundraisers to start. At Hilton New York, 53rd and Sixth.
WEDNESDAY
11 a.m. You haven’t forgotten Jane Jacobs already, have you? Architectural historian Matt Postal leads a Municipal Art Read More
Silda Wall Spitzer, Michelle Paige Paterson and Women for Spitzer host a luncheon with the gubenatorial candidate.
A public celebration for Jane Jacobs will be held at 5pm in front of the Washington Square Arch, site of her first victory over Robert Moses.
The Laughing Liberally National Tour Returns to New York Read More
Remembering Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs passed away on April 25 in Toronto, at the age of 89—and her legacy as a writer and activist will be felt in New York enduringly. From her seminal 1961 work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, to her legendary battles with developer Robert Moses, Jacobs had Read More
Observer Real Estate reporter Michael Calderone writes about the legacy of Jane Jacobs in today’s paper, and Brian Lehrer had an interesting discussion of Jacobs’ enduring influence on planning this morning on WNYC.
—Nicole Brydson
Paul White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, writes in on the death of Jane Jacobs, and, appropriately enough, uses the occassion to promote a car-free Central Park, one of Jacobs’ latest causes.
And Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, passses on a eulogy to the Village’s departed éminence Read More
