In Honor of World AIDS Day
Neighbors to Save Rivington House:
An education and community-building art project with Neighbors to Save Rivington House, local artist Lee Brozgol, and the youth of University Settlement.
From UN AIDS:
“This #WorldAIDSDay
we stand in solidarity with all people living with or affected by HIV, and remember our friends and family who have died from AIDS-related illnesses”
ACT-UP NY “Silence = Death” Meetings Dec 7, 2018
NYTimes: “Loss and Bravery Intimate Photos from the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis”
More Photos:
More Photos: Green Map System Brings Nordea Fonden to SDR Park
NYC Councilman Just Unveiled A Historic Bill To Cut Its Biggest Source Of Climate Pollution
By Alexander C. Kaufman
“A top New York City lawmaker unveiled landmark legislation Tuesday to dramatically decrease emissions from big buildings, the city’s largest source of climate pollution.
If passed, the bill would set a new standard for cities around the world and mark the most aggressive climate action yet taken by the nation’s largest and most financially and culturally influential city.
“We know New York City has to act and has to act quickly,” City Councilman Costa Constantinides, a Queens legislator who leads the council’s Committee on Environmental Protection, said on the steps of City Hall Tuesday afternoon. “What happens in New York City is emulated everywhere else….”
Starting in 2022, the new legislation proposes cutting pollution 40 percent by 2030, a timeline roughly twice as fast as the original agreement brokered by the Urban Green Council, a nonprofit linked to the U.S. Green Building Council that published the framework as a report three months ago. It’ll establish a new Office of Building Energy Performance under the Department of Buildings and set up a 27-member advisory board to guide future emissions cuts through 2050.
“We can be stricter in requirements, but at this point, we can’t be any looser,” Constantinides said.”
“…The bill offers protections for the city’s dwindling stock of roughly 990,000 rent-regulated apartments, sparing landlords who own those buildings from expensive retrofit requirements that could be legally passed onto tenants in the form of rent increases of up to 6 percent a year. Instead, the legislation proposes requiring the same auditing for to all buildings over 25,000 square feet that buildings over 50,000 square feet already undergo, a step that avoids rent hikes but increases pressure to decrease energy use in the structures.”
Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
From CBC News
:
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
“Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that’s so different from other living things that it doesn’t fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.
Two species of the microscopic organisms, called hemimastigotes…”
East Side Coastal Resiliency Project – Interactive Meeting
This is an important meeting to find out why after four years of public input the administration has now proposed a new plan that appears to be a radical change for the East River Park:
From BoweryBoogie: Pols Commit to Returning Stanton Storehouse to Community Use
From BoweryBoogie:
“The eponymous Sara D. Roosevelt Park Coaltion, led by Kathleen Webster, argues that the return as community amenity would help cut back the open-air drug market and reduce overall crime in the park …”
“Once the community feels an ownership [over the Stanton building] it invites more active positive use, not experienced as a derelict area,” Webster told us. “So yes, the building will not be used for storage. For the first time concrete mechanisms are in place to move the toilet paper out.”
NYers 4 Parks: Open Space Dialogues: From Vacant to Vibrant
Jarrett Murphy of City Limits moderating the discussion
On Monday (November 19) NYers4Parks invited an array of open space leaders to talk about what, in their view, it means to be a public open space in NYC. Next Open Space dialogue (see below)
“New York City is a metropolis that excels in reinvention, and that’s true for land as well. New Yorkers want – and deserve – local open spaces, and creative solutions exist to make vibrancy out of vacancy. This installment of the Open Space Dialogues explores the ways New Yorkers have, and want to, create nontraditional open spaces in unusual places, from a single lot or tunnel to entire neighborhoods and whole islands.”
It was a wide ranging discussion focused on how do you keep public spaces truly public, deal with unequal resources, beautify without gentrifying and serve the broader public without discounting the real needs of the neighborhood that the open space is sited in.
The best advertisement to potential volunteers was offered up by both Bill LoSasso (GreenThumb Director) and Jarrett Murphy (Executive Director of CityLimits): Both met their current partners while volunteering in a NYC Park!
Moderated by
Jarrett Murphy, Executive Editor & Publisher, City Limits
Presenters
Bill LoSasso, Director of GreenThumb, NYC Parks
Dan Barasch, Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Lowline
Michael Samuelian, President & CEO, The Trust for Governors Island
Bill LoSasso of GreenThumb with images of what the community garden movement was faced with during in the abandoned communities of NYC.
Respondents
Tom Hillery, Founder & Executive Director, Harlem Grown
Regina Myer, President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Marlene Pantin, President, Red Hook Conservancy
Tony Hiller of Harlem Grown: “We are from Harvard to Homeless” – they feed the neighborhood with volunteers, residents and young people from the community.
To continue the conversation:
Next Open Space Dialogue: the intersection of parks & health Wednesday, January 9th
More questions answered on Check CityLimits next week.
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