Recent Press
Center for an Urban Future Re-Envisions New York’s Branch Libraries
Library Journal, by Lisa Peet, September 19, 2014
NY1 Online: Experts Weigh In on Issues Facing City’s Library Systems
NY1, by Inside City Hall, September 17, 2014
David Ehrenberg On Overseeing the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Commercial Observer, by Lauren Elkies Schram, September 17, 2014
Queens Library struggling from space constraints, report says
The Queens Courier, by Liam La Guerre, September 16, 2014
$1B to modernize and repair NYC’s libraries: research
New York Post , by Daniel Prendergast, September 16, 2014
After new report, councilman calls for unification of city libraries
Capital New York, by Nidhi Prakash , September 16, 2014
Trustees Endorse Plan to Sell Land Beneath Branch of Brooklyn Library
New York Times, by Tatiana Schlossberg, September 16, 2014
Repairs Needed at New York City Library Branches
The Numbers Blog, Wall Street Journal, by Jennifer Maloney, September 15, 2014
Price tag to repair City’s libraries? $1.1B, report says
The Real Deal, by Mark Maurer, September 15, 2014
Staten Island’s aging libraries need $50.44M in capital funding, report finds
Staten Island Advance, by Anna Sanders, September 15, 2014
New report says aged Bronx libraries need more repairs and renovations to keep up with the times
New York Daily News, by Lisa L. Colangelo, September 15, 2014
New report says Queens Library buildings need more room to keep up with a growing number of customers
New York Daily News, by Lisa L. Colangelo, September 15, 2014
Public Libraries Need Over $1 Billion in Repairs, Report Says
Curbed, by Jeremiah Budin, September 15, 2014
Report: City libraries on verge of ‘maintenance crisis’
Capital New York, by Dana Rubinstein , September 15, 2014
NYC Libraries Need $1.1 Billion for Repairs, Says Report
Epoch Times, by Jonathan Zhou, September 15, 2014
New York City Public Library Branches Need $1.1 Billion in Repairs: Report
Wall Street Journal, by Jennifer Maloney, September 15, 2014
Are NYC’s Public Libraries Falling Down?
WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, September 15, 2014
Fewer New Yorkers Getting the Benefit of Being Hired, and Fired, at a Young Age
New York Times, by Rachel L. Swarns, September 14, 2014
The Problem With Being Global
Forbes, by Joel Kotkin, August 23, 2014
Life After Brooklyn: Moving Out of Brooklyn Because of High Prices
New York Times, by Michelle Higgins, August 22, 2014
Aspirin for NYC’s growing pains
New York Daily News, by Josh Robin, August 11, 2014
How the New Museum’s Lisa Phillips is making entrepreneurship into an art form
Fast Company, by Jillian Goodman, August 04, 2014
5 projects that would change NYC
amNewYork, by Ivan Pereira and Zoe Lake , August 03, 2014
Port Authority Bus Terminal: What the $90M overhaul should include
amNewYork, by Ivan Pereira, July 27, 2014
Poets Slam Loss of NYC’s Creative Habitats
Epoch Times, by Christine Lin, July 26, 2014
Wealthy New Yorkers Can’t Afford to Move
City Lab, by Sam Sturgis, July 23, 2014
Creative class migrates deeper into Brooklyn, Queens
Crain's New York Business, by Eileen Zimmerman, July 22, 2014
City libraries target six-day service, eventually
Capital New York, by Conor Skelding, July 18, 2014
Precedents for Experimentation: Talking Libraries with Shannon Mattern and Nate Hill
Urban Omnibus, July 16, 2014
M.T.A. has no strike plan for LIRR reverse commuters
Capital New York, by Ryan Hutchins, July 16, 2014
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz got more money for seniors than her beep colleagues under a decades old arrangement
New York Daily News, by Denis Slattery, July 16, 2014
Brooklyn Public Library Capital Funding Woes: How Did Things Get So Bad?
Brooklyn Heights Blog, by Michael Randazzo, July 01, 2014
Boxed In, With Room for Creativity
New York Times, by Ted Loos, June 29, 2014
Beyond Books: A New Film Shows the Vital Role Public Libraries Play in New York Communities
Fast Company, by Christine Champagne, June 27, 2014
Succesful LIC Summit brings some new ideas
Times Ledger, by Bill Parry, June 19, 2014
New Protocol Will Put FDNY on All Gas Leak Calls
NY1, by Josh Robin, June 18, 2014
NYC Looks to Long Island City As Model
Epoch Times, by Catherine Yang, June 17, 2014
100 earn high school equivalency diplomas
Poughkeepsie Journal, by Nina Schutzman, June 17, 2014
Big plans brewing in Koreatown as new coffee chain expands
Real Estate Weekly, by Holly Dutton, June 11, 2014
Dominicanos entre pasajeros atrapados en fuego Tren 7 del subway NY
El Jaya, by Ramón Mercedes, June 04, 2014
Older Immigrants in New York City
Communities & Banking, by Christian Gonzalez-Rivera, June 03, 2014
Op-ed: Our old infrastructure imperils housing push
Crain's New York Business, by Denise Richardson, June 01, 2014
Housing boom could could be big blow to city’s small biz
Real Estate Weekly, May 30, 2014
A Dairy Queen Comes to Manhattan
The New Yorker, by Elizabeth Weiss, May 29, 2014
Fifth Avenue Fair offers taste of Slope
Brooklyn Daily, by Max Jaeger, May 16, 2014
For Many Boomer Immigrants, Rough Times Ahead
PBS' Next Avenue, by Chris Farrell, May 14, 2014
Etsy Sews Up Bigger Space in Brooklyn
Wall Street Journal, by Laura Kusisto, May 13, 2014
New York’s Design Economy Report: NYC Has 65 Percent More Designers Than Any Other Metro Area
Dexigner, May 12, 2014
Video: Aging in NYC
BK Live, May 12, 2014
Number of Designers, Design Firms Climbs in NYC
Women's Wear Daily, by Rosemary Feitelberg, May 09, 2014
New York City Houses the Most Design Firms in the Nation
Fashion Times, by Aimee Hoefler, May 09, 2014
Video: Aging NYC: Uncovering the hidden dangers below, above and around us
PIX11, by Narmeen Choudhury, May 09, 2014
Report: A designer boom in New York
Capital New York, by Dana Rubinstein, May 08, 2014
City’s lead as design capital grows
Crain's New York Business, by Thornton McEnery, May 08, 2014
Una Infraestructura en crisis en NYC
El Diario, by Gamaliel Ramos, May 03, 2014
Autoridades desconocen causa de descarrilamiento de tren en Queens
El Diario, by Candida Portugues, May 02, 2014
Op-ed: This is no time to cut road funding
Crain's New York Business, by Daniel Garodnick, May 02, 2014
Analyzing New York’s Aging Infrastructure
Metrofocus | THIRTEEN, by Marisa Wong, April 30, 2014
US ‘Bridgegate’ highlights need for reform
Financial Times, by Robert Wright, April 29, 2014
How co-ops and Con Ed are transforming Riverdale
The Riverdale Press, by Shant Shahrigian, April 24, 2014
Op-ed: The work that really drives New York
New York Daily News, by Errol Louis, April 24, 2014
Panel: NYC Electeds Need to Get Serious About Funding Infrastructure
Streetsblog, by Stephen Miller, April 23, 2014
New revenue streams needed to fix city’s infrastructure, experts say
amNewYork, by Dan Rivoli, April 23, 2014
Manufacturing in New York City isn’t dead after all: study shows sector has stabilized
New York Daily News, by Phyllis Furman, March 26, 2014
NYC manufacturing no longer bleeding jobs
Crain's New York Business, by Thornton McEnery, March 26, 2014
Net Gains
City Journal, by James Panero, March 25, 2014
Queens’ highways, streets in bad shape: Study
Queens Times Ledger, by Philip Newman, March 24, 2014
Tragedy Exposes N.Y. City Infrastructure Woes
Bond Buyer, by Paul Burton, March 21, 2014
The Leakiest Gas Pipes In The Nation
WNYC, by Robert Lewis, March 20, 2014
Congestion pricing plan gains actual momentum
Capital New York, by Dana Rubinstein, March 20, 2014
Guests on The Infra Blog: Jonathan Bowles & Adam Forman of the Center for an Urban Future
InfrastructureUSA, by Steve Anderson, March 18, 2014
In City’s Job Growth, Faces of the Working Poor
WNYC, by Mirela Iverac, March 17, 2014
New York explosion exposes nation’s aging and dangerous gas mains
CNN, by Ray Sanchez, March 17, 2014
Up Close: NYC Infrastructure
ABC, by Diana Williams, March 17, 2014
Our Aging and Dangerous Urban Infrastructure
Huffington Post, by Steven Cohen, March 17, 2014
Blast exposes need to fix aging infrastructure
Crain's New York Business, by Thornton McEnery and Emily Laermer, March 16, 2014
Rescue workers reach basement of NYC blast site
Al Jazeera America, March 15, 2014
Deadly gas leaks and aging pipes are growing problem in New York City
New York Daily News, by Greg B. Smith, March 15, 2014
Revelan imágenes de cámara de seguridad sobre explosión en NY
Univision, March 15, 2014
Op-ed: Rep. Charles Rangel: For Too Long, Congress Has Ignored Infrastructure
TIME, by Rep. Charles Rangel, March 14, 2014
Where are New York City’s gas mains located?
The New York World, by Wilder Fleming, March 14, 2014
Without Action From Cuomo, Subways Doomed to Endless State of Disrepair
Streetsblog, by John Petro, March 14, 2014
8th Body Found in Rubble From East Harlem Explosion
New York Magazine, by Brendan O'Connor, March 14, 2014
New York’s dangerously old public infrastructures
The Guardian, by Raya Jalabi, March 14, 2014
East Harlem Building Explosion Highlights City’s Aging Infrastructure
DNAinfo, by Jeff Mays, March 14, 2014
Harlem gas explosion highlights aging nationwide infrastructure
CBS, by Michelle Miller, March 14, 2014
Dear America, Please Fix Your Crappy Infrastructure
Fast Company, by Shaunacy Ferro, March 14, 2014
Too Soon for Answers in Harlem
City Journal, by Nicole Gelinas, March 14, 2014
Explosion a Reminder of NYC’s Aging Infrastructure
Associated Press, by David Crary, March 13, 2014
More than half of city’s worst roads located in Queens: Report
Queens Times Ledger, by Philip Newman, March 13, 2014
Harlem tragedy sheds light on old infrastructure
Crain's New York Business, by Thornton McEnery, March 13, 2014
East Harlem Explosion Sheds Light on City’s Aging Infrastructure
NY1, by Bobby Cuza, March 13, 2014
Here’s a way to prevent gas explosions and help the climate too
Grist, by Ben Adler, March 13, 2014
New York building collapse death toll rises as search for victims continues
The Guardian, by Amanda Holpuch, March 13, 2014
Op-ed: The city, crumbling beneath our feet
New York Daily News, by Errol Louis, March 13, 2014
Deadly New York Explosion Highlights Urgent Need To Fix City’s Crumbling Gas Lines
Huffington Post, by Chris Kirkham and Saki Knafo, March 13, 2014
Op-ed: New York City Is Crumbling
TIME, by Adam Forman, March 13, 2014
Aging Park Avenue Gas Pipe Eyed as Possible Cause of Explosion
Wall Street Journal, by Andrew Tangel, March 12, 2014
America’s Gas Infrastructure Is Getting Dangerously Old
TIME, by Katy Steinmetz, March 12, 2014
Natural gas infrastructure a concern in Utah too
Standard-Examiner, by Andreas Rivera, March 12, 2014