Municipal Art Society

What's Happening to the Light-Up 9/11 Memorial?

​The ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is coming up in less than a month. Every year, the fallen Twin Towers have been memorialized with twin beams of light shooting up into the sky overnight; the "Tribute in Light" is organized by the Municipal Art Society (MAS) and has returned annually v ... More >>

Attack of the Subway Video Ads: Cash Cow or "Invasion"?

​The announcement that video ads are coming to the subway--in the form of playoff baseball highlights beamed by TBS to specially equipped cars on the 42nd Street Shuttle--was met mostly with goggling over the technology that embeds TV screens in train car walls, mixed with plaintive sighs that ... More >>

Migrating Birds Totally Confused by 9/11 Tribute Lights

Copyright 2010 John de Guzman via Animal PlanetClick to Enlarge​In an impressive and unsettling display, over 10,000 migrating birds became stuck in the light-led vortex of the 9/11 tribute beams that momentarily paused their trip south. The New York City Audubon worked with the Municipal Art Soci ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Combatants Finally Forced To Sit Through State Senate Hearing

The footprint. Image via Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots. Yesterday was the long-awaited — like, six years long — first state legislative hearing on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, with State Senator Bill Perkins convening his Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Committee ... More >>

New Moynihan Train Station Getting Closer

Moynihan Station projection from the Municipal Art Society. Remember that Moynihan Station people have been trying for years to put at the site of the Farley Post Office at 34th Street? The project that's supposed to restore some of the glory eradicated when the old, beautiful Penn Station was des ... More >>

Coney Fans Offer New Plans

image (cc) Mark Kehoe A petting zoo for cloned animals? A giant apple orchard? A freak show with yuppies in a cage? Some futuristic-looking NeoGothic towers? When a group of people gathered in Our Lady of Solace Church on Mermaid Avenue last night to discuss the future of Coney Island, the lines ... More >>

New York City's Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards

City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

Coney Island Lives! Astroland, Maybe Not

Has Tom Wolfe Blown It?

In the author's latest foray into combat, it's his fame he's fighting to preserve

Atlantic Yards: Silver Makes a Deal

Atlantic Yards Lite?

Design for Living

Could The World Trade Center Become The World Cultural Center?

Letters

Sacking a Saint

Giuliani Team Blows a Chance to Protect a Real Catholic Legacy

Field of Drums

Seminal Nuyorican Musicians Steal Home a Half-Century After Stickball, to the South Bronx Blocks That Spawned Them

Shadow of the Ivory Tower

NYU'S building frenzy blocks the sun and burns the community