Last night at the New York Blood Center auditorium on the Upper West Side, Assemblyman Micah Kellner moderated a panel on post-congestion-pricing solutions for city transportation that reached a general consensus but no real solution: Congestion pricing is not a bad idea, the proposal was just executed poorly, and right now the M.T.A. is, as Read More
At the bottom of an excavation on 64th Street, east of Fifth Avenue, two rust-brown plastic pipes with orange caps stick out of the ground, one near the front of the big lot and one near the back. They are not your basic Drano-ready plumbing: Each drops more than a quarter-mile straight down, traveling 1,500 Read More
In 1981, the artist Christo proposed an art piece for Central Park, an installation of 11,000 gold banners suspended from 15-foot stakes which they called The Gates . It was roundly rejected by Gordon Davis, the then-Parks Commissioner. In a detailed, 107-page document investigating the impact of the installation on the city’s one green lung, Read More
