Professor Skyscraper
In a late September planning conference at N.Y.U., Vishaan Chakrabarti strode into the college's Kimmell Center a healthy hour after the event began. Taking his place onstage, the former city planning...
View ArticleColumbia University Think Tank Urges Waterfront Development
A new report by a Columbia University think tank warns that the one million additional residents expected to hit the city by 2030 will have nowhere to live if the city's waterfront neighborhoods aren’t...
View ArticleTwo Trees Going Big With Domino Sugar Refinery Project
Brooklyn is like the dog that didn’t bark. All the ingredients were there to make New York City’s most populous borough its most desirable office market. It had an abundance of old industrial buildings...
View ArticleWant to Create More Affordable Housing in NYC? Help Private Developers.
Over the last 40 years, a community of skilled, efficient affordable housing developers has emerged in New York City to address what has become the most pressing concern of both public officials and...
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