Public Housing’s Fertile Crescent Thanksgiving
Friday, November 23 11am-1pm
Have attitudes about publicly and philanthropically assisted housing changed? Most huge housing projects were designed to maximize off-street open space that is open to the public and provides light and air to the residents. The walk concentrates on the benign allees of vast projects that parallel the East River bend from the Brooklyn Bridge to 14 St in Manhattan. Commentary centers on the socio-political history and geography nurturing these projects. The tour ends in the East Village at the site of New York City’s first public housing project.
>Sponsored by MAS Go to http://mas.org/tours/ to register.
Keeping Off Midtown Streets (East Side) – Grand Central Terminal to Bloomingdales
Saturday, December 29 11am-1pm
In the “post-modernist era”, NYC planning principles encouraged innovative new public spaces to be maintained by private entities. These new spaces typically offer shelter and shortcuts and add to the connections already provided by transit, stores, and hotels. We’ll beat winter by connecting public atriums, passageways, building lobbies, and walkways that reveal a more intimate side of Midtown.
>Sponsored by MAS Go to http://mas.org/tours/ to register.
Keeping Off Midtown Streets (West Side) – Time Warner to Times Square
Sunday, January 27, 2013 11am-1pm
In the “post-modernist era”, NYC planning principles encouraged innovative new public spaces to be maintained by private entities. These new spaces typically offer shelter and shortcuts and add to the connections already provided by transit, stores, and hotels. We’ll beat winter by connecting public atriums, passageways, building lobbies, and walkways that reveal a more intimate side of Midtown.
>Sponsored by MAS Go to http://mas.org/tours/ to register.
