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L-R: New Haven’s Oak Street neighborhood in the 1950s, the area in the 1970s after the construction of the Route 34 Connector, and today. The negative impacts of postwar urban renewal — wanton highway construction, residential displacement, social fragmentation — are still felt in cities throughout America. New Haven, the recipient of more [...] Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi spent much of yesterday’s State of the County address discussing government consolidation and property tax relief, but also talked at length about responsible growth, calling for increased investment in downtowns that would attract new businesses and stem the exodus of young people from Long Island. This “New Suburbia” concept [...] Last night Cooper Union’s Great Hall played host to the five developers and architectural teams bidding for the rights to build over the MTA’s Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan (The five groups are Extell, The Related Companies, Durst/Vornado, Brookfield, and Tishman Speyer/Morgan Stanley). The development has huge ramifications for the [...] |
 
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