Author: Charley Cohen

by Mackenna Caughron Metrotech Center does not immediately elicit awe-inspiring thoughts. It is an average looking business park, built in the 1990’s, home to the NYU Brooklyn Campus and JP Morgan Chase offices. Its red-brick exterior stretches across a drab Brooklyn super-block. Metrotech Center’s exterior does not reveal its integral tenant housed inside. The Public… Read more Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Project: New York City’s Efforts to Improve Emergency Communications

by Stephen Zubrycky There is a seven lane highway on Manhattan’s East Side – no, not the F.D.R. – and a group of New Yorkers is taking action to reimagine it. The New Third Avenue Boulevard group is aiming to create a first-of-its-kind thoroughfare along Third Avenue from East 23rd Street to East 42nd Street.… Read more The Plan to Replace The Seven Lane Highway Through Midtown Manhattan

by Aisha Balogun While social media is known to manufacture outsize outrage, there is one case where I believe it has not gone far enough: Munger Hall. Much of the widespread criticism of Charles Munger’s design for student housing at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) addresses the direct impact on the 4,500 students… Read more The Hidden Cost of Munger Hall

by Ben Listman Eric Adams’ campaign released a number of in-depth plans for New York City, covering topics like the growing NYC’s wind industry, reducing crime, immigrant safety and empowerment, and bolstering the arts. The campaign also released a plan regarding the city’s transportation networks. This plan, titled Moving Forward Together, covers expanding and electrifying… Read more “Moving Forward Together” For Dummies

by: Luke Walsh The COVID-19 Pandemic shut down New York City in March of 2020. Trains, buses, roads and bike lanes all were emptied across the city in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. While many people did flee for the suburbs and exurbs,, it was not the ghost town that it… Read more The Bedbugs Bite: How New York City Bedbug Infestations Impact Health Outcomes Among Its Most Vulnerable Communities