When Bob Moses built the Gowanus Expressway in 1941, he split up South Brooklyn, condemned a major commercial strip–and created a safe haven for industry in Sunset Park.
For decades the Regional Plan Association padded the corridors of power and flexed muscle for its sweeping visions of regional development. But now the group must court communities if it…
Planners who want to build a park on Governor’s Island, New York Harbor’s grassy knoll, are fighting to keep the bucolic bastion out of the commercial mainstream.
