a lil emotional about two of my plants both growing flowers for the first time this year 🥲

truly the *worst* chris
dwell.com/article/chris-…

The most telling finding in this @nyc_dot report about Grand Army Plaza is that only 10% of area residents commute by car. So here’s hoping the agency reconfigures the plaza for the 90% of us who want more public space for people and an end to car sewers. nyc.gov/html/dot/downl…

What’s going to be an unintended result of Columbia having their students arrested is they’re about to expose a bunch of middle and upper middle class families to how NYPD, cash bail, and Rikers are weaponized against people in this city everyday.

very excited that the first (brief!) piece i wrote for New York Review of Architecture was on janna añonuevo langholz's placemaking and public memory work at the philippine village in st. louis nyra.nyc/skyline/dispat…

so how many vision zero priority corridors fall under this criteria?

'Rosenthal said the deal will not allow the city to lower the speed limits on roads with three or more lanes of traffic heading in one direction.'

Goodbye to Sherita, my favorite local public artwork. You were too good for the boring building that will probably go up in your place.

Pretty sure that to reopen The Vessel with 'floor to ceiling' steel mesh & only opening the bottom half to public is admission that the design is deadly.
dezeen.com/2024/04/15/hea…

‼️ BREAKING: 29 authors have withdrawn from PEN America’s literary prizes in solidarity with a free Palestine and in a historic protest of @PENAmerica leadership. Nine of 10 nominees for the $75K Jean Stein Book Award have withdrawn.

‼️ PRESS RELEASE: docs.google.com/document/d/15Y…

+1 for Al-Sham Sweets and Pastries (especially the pistachio baklava)

BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.

For the past six months I've been asking people what stories they want me to write about LA. Just about everyone asked me: 'Can you find out what's going on with the Olympics?' I just launched my new newsletter and I hope you'll subscribe.

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So excited for Alissa Walker latest venture: TORCHED, a newsletter counting down (and critiquing) LA’s urban journey to the 2028 Olympics 🔥🌴🥇torched.la

haven't hit subscribe any faster than on Alissa Walker's new newsletter on l.a. as it gears up for the olympics torched.la/introducing-to…

Faith Ringgold, who passed away this weekend at age 93, was an extraordinary artist, activist, and advocate for Black women. This St. Nicholas Park basketball court on 140th St near her Harlem birthplace, was based on her 1970s abstract work “Windows of the Wedding #1”.

never would have expected that less competition in scrabble would become a generational divide. still, it's fascinating to see how games are redesigned to meet the moment. nytimes.com/2024/04/12/cro…

Rereading Faith Ringgold’s memoir “we flew over the bridge” today. I am thinking about the story she shares of installing her famous mural for the Women’s House of Detention in 1972…

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