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What to Do With a Derelict Queens Trestle: Advocates Square Off on High Line...
The High Line has been such a staggering success, it has created impersonators across the country and the world. And who can blame them, when the project has generated an estimated $2 billion in...
View ArticleQueensWay: New York City’s Most Controversial Potential Park
Just imagine the yam fufu! Parks: what’s there not to dislike? A group of parks activists in Queens have been pushing “QueensWay,” a linear park that would be built atop the old Rockaway Beach Branch...
View ArticleStrong Foundation
Douglas Durst. Call Douglas Durst the anti-real estate developer. Though he spends his days planning to erect New York City’s tallest buildings, such as 1 World Trade Center, Mr. Durst also devotes his...
View ArticleSurprise, New York Turned Into One of the World’s Greenest Cities
Sounds like an oxymoron. Say “park,” and of course everyone thinks of Central Park in the middle of Manhattan.
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