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Adi Talwar

The Bay is a critical habitat for birds, supporting some 325 species.

Guglielmo Mattioli

clean water

Photo Essay: Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay Link City to its Waters

By Adi Talwar and Guglielmo Mattioli | August 19, 2016

This week, City Limits has examined how New York City’s water renaissance is working out in two places that represent our waterfront past and present: Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay. Here are images from both:

Health and Environment

Video: Fish Jump, Barges Work and Beauty Survives on Newtown Creek

By Guglielmo Mattioli | August 18, 2016

It is one of the most polluted waterways in the country. It’s at the crux of efforts to restore health and improve access to New York’s waterways. And from the vantage point of a small motorboat, Newtown Creek somehow manages to be beautiful.

environment

A Video Visit to Jamaica Bay

By Guglielmo Mattioli and Adi Talwar | August 17, 2016

The bay is considered the crown jewel of the city’s green spaces, home to hundreds of species of birds, fishes and marine life. It’s a ecosystem unique within the entire Northeast coast just a hour subway ride from downtown Manhattan. The proximity to the city makes Jamaica Bay a unique wild environment in urban setting but is also its major threat.

Health and Environment

Cleaner Creeks and Bays, But How Will New Yorkers Access the Waters They Own?

By Guglielmo Mattioli | August 16, 2016

Along Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay, decades of work are slowly restoring neglected waterways. Now comes a new challenge: Making sure New Yorkers can use those liquid assets in harmony with industry and nature.

architecture

Not a Pretty Picture: Art Exhibit Depicts NYC’s Mountainous Property-Tax Inequity

By Guglielmo Mattioli | July 20, 2016

The disparities built into the city’s property tax system can be hard to fathom. So one architecture firm tried to tell the story in 3D.

clean water

Stormwater is New Challenge to City’s Clean Water Plans

By Guglielmo Mattioli | July 12, 2016

For years, New York City has wrestled with the impact of combined sewer overflows on local rivers, creeks, canals and bays. But while raw sewage is certainly a problem, simple rainwater might pose an environmental challenge that’s harder to address.

Health and Environment

City and State Remain at Impasse Over Clean Water Moves

By Guglielmo Mattioli | June 23, 2016

An already belated effort to bring city rivers and bays up to Clean Water Act standards appears to have stalled because of a legal dispute involving Albany’s approval of the city’s cleanup plans.

CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC

Saving NYC’s Food Waste From Both Landfill and Compost

By Guglielmo Mattioli | June 8, 2016

While composting food waste is better that simply burying it in landfills, both techniques have their costs, and both involve a fundamental failure: The food could have been eaten.

architecture

Audio: The ‘Architecture of Rupture’ & the Ideology of Private Sky: New York’s New Skyscrapers

By Guglielmo Mattioli | June 4, 2016

A skyscraper is more than just a building. And Manhattan’s new generation of supertall buildings are more than mere skyscrapers. They are an expression, to some, of wealth’s metastasizing supremacy.

climate change

UrbaNerd: Why Flat Roofs and Solar Power Don’t Always Mix

By Guglielmo Mattioli | June 3, 2016

Many city property owners see a source of greener power in that ball of fire 93 million miles away. The risk of a fire closer to home, however, can make it problematic to erect solar panels on many buildings.

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