An Arena Grows in Brooklyn

With trees.

Barclays Boondoggle: Will the New Nets Arena Be a Parking Nightmare?

The issue of parking and traffic is always a problem in New York. If you aren’t renting a space for an exhorbitant price, then chances are that you are driving around the block a few dozen times. (Unless you are in the Bronx, then you just park wherever on the street.) But no other borough likes to hoot and holler over traffic more than Brooklyn.

The construction of the Barclays Center is no exception, the Post reports: Read More

Dizzying Designs

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The night-time lighting scheme designed by Ms. Schwendinger.

Another Pretty Parking Lot For New York, This Time in the Bronx

Back in June, The Observer marveled at a parking lot the city was rehabilitating on the Lower East Side. Yes, we marveled at a parking lot. That is because the city’s Public Design Excellence program was hard at work showing utilitarian structures need not be unsightly ones. And, lo, the pretty parking lot has struck again, this time in the Bronx, at the New York Botanical Garden. Read More