Sentences with phrase «york urban parks»

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Why go: New York City hosts infinite urban adventures: Wander through Central Park, tour the exhibits at the Met, catch a Broadway show or peruse SoHo's stylish boutiques.

The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.

«We have a lot of land in these urban environments, in big cities like San Francisco and New York, and they're just wastelands of parking lots in highly desirable ZIP codes.

Cf. also above, note 15; F. Ernst Johnson, Christianity and Society (Nashville, Tenn.: Arlington Press, 1935); E. W. Burgess, The Urban Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925); Robert E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and R. D. McKenzie, The City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925); Ezra Dwight Sanderson, Rural Sociology and Rural Social Organization (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1942); S. C. Kincheloe, The American City and Its Church (New York: Missionary Education Movement, 1938).

Every detail of Loews Regency is focused on enticing today's sophisticated, urban traveler, by offering them warm, personalized service and the benefit of the perfect Park Avenue location for a true New York experience.»

Federal Historic Tax Credits leverage $ 7.3 million of tax credit equity; New York State Historic Tax Credits, allocated by the Office of New York State Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, leverage about $ 4 million in tax credit equity and about $ 1 million comes from Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency Home Funds.

The Heritage Area Commission is charged with the responsibility of advising the Mayor and the Common Council on all matters related to the Kingston Heritage Area and its programs in a manner consistent with the concepts, goals and objectives set forth in relevant state and local legislation regarding New York State Heritage Areas and in the Urban Cultural Park Management Plan.

When I ask him for some better - qualified options, he mentions New York City comptroller Scott Stringer, former Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan, and «most people in this park.»

Although Hawkins's running mate, Gloria Mattera, is from Park Slope and once ran against Marty Markowitz for borough president, the bulk of the New York Green Party membership is from upstate, with concentrations in urban areas.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, the City of Buffalo and Erie County joined today to celebrate the completion of Ship Canal Commons, a 22 - acre waterfront park in the City of Buffalo.

Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park (BLCP) is a newly - developed «smart growth», urban commerce park on reclaimed waterfront land in Buffalo, New York with multi-modal transportation opportunities and excellent access to the interstPark (BLCP) is a newly - developed «smart growth», urban commerce park on reclaimed waterfront land in Buffalo, New York with multi-modal transportation opportunities and excellent access to the interstpark on reclaimed waterfront land in Buffalo, New York with multi-modal transportation opportunities and excellent access to the interstate.

The study, «Homogenizing an Urban Habitat Mosaic: Arthropod diversity declines in New York City parks after Super Storm Sandy,» was published in the journal Ecological Applications.

-- Eric Powell Places Urban BioBliss There are bugs in them thar bushes Central Park BioBlitz June 27 and 28, 2003 www.explorers.org/nycbioblitz/ New York's Central Park might strike the casual observer as a strange spot to celebrate biodiversity.

New York City's Highline Park, where native species have been planted on abandoned railway lines to create urban spaces where art, education and recreation intersect and are accessible to all, is an example of this.

They are now found in and around every urban area in eastern North America, having been captured even in New York's Central Park (Gompper 2002).

To «adopt» an area, contact your local parks and recreation office, department of environmental protection, or greening organization, such as MillionTreesNYC in New York or Friends of the Urban Forest in San Francisco.

1 We consulted the following educators by e-mail and telephone: Jacqueline Ancess, Codirector, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founding Principal of Manhattan East Middle School, New York, NY; Sanda Balaban, Autonomy Zone Liaison for New York City Department of Education and Coordinator of Homework Audit for New Mission High School, Roxbury, MA; Avram Barlowe, history teacher, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Ann Cook, Codirector, Urban Academy, and Cochair, New York Performance Standards Consortium, New York, NY; Cecelia Cunningham, Director of Middle College National Consortium and former Principal of Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College, New York, NY; Herb Mack, Codirector, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, and founding Principal of Central Park East Elementary and Secondary Schools, New York, NY, and Mission Hill School, Boston, MA; Marian Mogulescu, education consultant and former Codirector of Vanguard High School, New York, NY; and Sylvia Rabiner, Project Manager, the Institute for Student Achievement, and founding Principal of Landmark High School, New York, NY.

However, for those that live in the right part of New York City, downtown Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or similar dense urban environment, the Smart's all - electric drivetrain and easy - to - park size makes a case that can't be easily refuted.

On New York City streets, in parks and backyards, throughout the five boroughs, thousands of kittens are born into a hostile urban landscape where they have little hope of survival, much less a good life in a loving home that they deserve.

The first two locations have opened in New York City and Oak Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, with boutique - sized footprints to suit their urban environments.

Right after it opened in June, the New York Times named it one its top summer destinations, so you may have heard that it is a former Civil War - era military post in Sausalito that is now a luxury urban national park lodge at the foot of the world's most famous bridge... read full article

It is the largest urban park in the world, spanning 1003 acres, making it even larger than Central Park in New Ypark in the world, spanning 1003 acres, making it even larger than Central Park in New YPark in New York.

The Institute looked at Fort Baker and Crissy Field in the Bay Area and Governors Island in New York to gain valuable insight on urban park planning and implementation that can be leveraged by other urban parks in their efforts to think proactively and critically about the park planning or redevelopment process.

«Not only does New York Collapse explore the topic of urban survival with real tips and advice, ranging from basic survival needs to catching edible game in city parks, it will also reveal enlightening information and key secrets about The Division.»

PAGES 44 - 45: From left, «Untitled, Harlem, New York,» 1963 (Gelatin silver print) by Gordon Parks and «Urban Wall Suit,» circa 1969 (dyed and printed silk with paint) by Jae Jarrell.

His work has been exhibited at Flushing Meadows Corona Park / Queens Museum (2014), NYC DOT's Urban Art Program, New York (2013); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2012); Location One, New York (2011); The 4th Auckland Triennial, New Zealand (2010); and The Third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); The National Gallery, Thailand (2004); and The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia (1999).

Signe Nielsen, professor of landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental planning in Pratt's School of Architecture, played a vital role in leading the third phase of New York City's High Line park to completion.

The New York City - based artists were selected by staff from NYC Parks and the USDA Forest Service because of their work at the intersection of art, urban ecology, and community based design:

The New York City Urban Field Station (http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/nyc) is a unique scientific collaboration between the NYC Parks, the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station, and the non-profit the Natural Areas Conservancy.

Wave Hill is grateful for the opportunity to work with our collaborating partners, the American Museum of Natural History, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cornell University, College of Mount St. Vincent, New York Botanical Garden, Gotham Coyote Project,, NYC Natural Areas Conservancy, NYC Parks Natural Resources Group, NYC Science Research Mentoring Consortium and the USDA Forest Service New York City Urban Field Station.

In a vast panorama seen from above, Chelsea Winter with Elevated Park: New York High Line (Mass Moca # 41)(2006), writing complements the visual choppiness of the city, adding scumbled urban texture in snow, the NYC High Line elevated train track a river of white dividing the painting, a kind of narration of the city.

From long walks in remote Japanese or American woodlands and Europe, to urban forests such as Central Park in New York or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, Takeshi Shikama trained his lens to capture fleeting moments of living things: plants and flowers about to wither, flowing streams or shadows cast by trees.

In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the OSU Urban Arts Space in Columbus and the NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery in Chicago, and participated in group shows at Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn), NURTUREart (Brooklyn), Terrault Contemporary (Baltimore), Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia), Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati), Gallery Madison Park (New York), Proto Gallery (Hoboken, NJ), and the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY).

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

When contemporary art does electrify the public, which is surely the case right now, the art itself is often part of an urban spectacle, a trophy floating atop the cultural maelstrom, and there can be no question that the blissed - out atmosphere in the Chelsea galleries this season has everything to do with New York's emergence as the ultimate amusement park for sophisticated tourists around the globe.

This photograph of a black dog bounding through a snowy Central Park — a frequent stalking ground of Winogrand, whose life's work is bound up with New York's urban landscape — is a lyrical instance of his gritty approach.

Commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, The Living Pyramid is the artist's first major public artwork in New York City in three decades since her iconic urban intervention, Wheatfield — A Confrontation in 1982.

2006 The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, US The Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

Founder of Antecedent Projects (2014), a sustainable urban curatorial consultancy investigating site - specific heritage and cultural regeneration, she has curated exhibits with CoLab - Factory, White Roof Project, Flux Art Fair (2015 - 16) and (most recently) with the New York City Parks Dept's Arsenal Gallery (2017).

Many of his films, like his photographs, focused on urban life (e.g., What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street [1956, with Cornell]; Central Park in the Dark, New York City [1985, with Charles Ives, Christopher Sweet, and Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks]-RRB-.

Mark DION Urban Wildlife Observation Unit 2002 Multi-media installation Installation view Target Art in the Park, Madison Square Park, New York City, 2002 Organized by The Public Art Fund on behalf of the City Parks Foundation

Native is an important word here, significant when considering that world famous parks and urban forests such as the Central Park in New York and Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro are man - made.

8D's unique green urban transportation management and payment solutions include the award - winning city parking system (8D APMS ™) and bike share systems deployed on four (4) continents, in the USA (Boston, Jersey City, Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC area), UK (London), Australia (Melbourne), Canada (Montreal), and in the UAE (Abu Dhabi).

Matthew Schuerman at the Observer reports that New York City congestion pricing opponents sought to commission UCLA urban planning guru Donald Shoup to do a study of New York City's parking policies.

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Surely one of the world's greatest is New York's Central Park, where all is not a bucolic urban idyll, but an ongoing war between the cyclists, the runners and the dog owners.

New York ATV insurance in an urban area like Manhattan could be relatively high because there might be a higher risk of theft or vandalism while it is stored or parked.

Opportunities this year include park maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National Papark maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National ParkPark).

But by the year 2000, the New York Times was trilling: «Move Over, Fire Island, Here Comes Asbury Park; Urban Gays Lead Way in Reviving This Run - Down Resort.»