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New York City Places and Spaces

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Jan, 2010

Description:

A growing collection of websites selected by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library staff for web archiving preservation by the Columbia University Libraries' Web Resources Collection Program. Website captures began in 2010 and are ongoing; in 2020, to reflect the collection's evolving subject focus, the collection title was changed to 'New York City Places and Spaces' (from the original 'Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning'). The collection's principal thematic focus is documenting the evolution of the built environment and public spaces in and around New York City through the interaction of historic preservation efforts and new development projects within urban planning debates. Selected websites are mostly published by non-profit groups or individuals based in the New York City area, including historic preservation groups, neighborhood associations, community development groups, public policy organizations, parks and open space conservancies, and both sponsors and critics of ongoing development projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Government - Cities Society & Culture Community development Public spaces Parks City planning Historic preservation Architecture

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Title: Park West Village Tenants' Association

URL: https://www.pwvta.org/

Description: The Park West Village Tenants' Association (PWVTA) is a voluntary, non-profit, membership organization whose purposes are to protect the rights and welfare of tenants in Park West Village (PWV); keep PWV tenants informed of their rights; represent PWVTA members in negotiations with Park West Management; represent the concerns of PWVTA members to outside organizations and to elected officials and government agencies; and support and participate in campaigns by various organizations, including Tenants and Neighbors, the Metropolitan Council on Housing, and the Mitchell-Lama Residents' Coalition, to expand tenant rights, strengthen rent regulations, preserve affordable housing programs, and protect the ability of low-income and moderate-income tenants to remain in their homes."

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Subject:   Tenants' associations,  Housing

Title: Open New York : New Yorkers for more housing

URL: https://www.opennewyork.city/

Description: "Open New York is a member-driven pro-housing organization. We advocate for equitable development that expands all housing options for New Yorkers, including both affordable and market rate housing. Affordable housing means affordable housing for everyone: those earning minimum wage, working families, public servants, immigrants, young people, seniors, those who recently arrived and the longtime residents – all New Yorkers."

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Subject:   Housing

Title: New York Passive House

URL: https://www.nypassivehouse.org/

Description: "NYPH leads the movement to promote the Passive House building energy standard in New York State and the New York City metropolitan area."

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Subject:   Architecture and energy conservation Sustainable development Sustainable urban development,  Housing

Title: NAICA: Providing Homelessness Prevention and Services in New York City

URL: https://www.naicany.org/

Description: "Neighborhood Association for Inter-Cultural Affairs, Inc. The Neighborhood Association for Inter-Cultural Affairs, Inc., (NAICA) is a designated tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation established under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) and has been providing housing intervention and assistance services to residents of the Bronx since 1974. "

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning,  Housing

Title: Metropolitan Council on Housing

URL: https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/

Description: "The Metropolitan Council on Housing is a tenants’ rights membership organization made up of New York City tenants who believe in our motto of “housing for people, not profit.” We formed 60 years ago to fights for a city where everyone has access to safe, decent, affordable housing. We organize tenants to stand up not only for their individual rights, but also for changes to our housing policies."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Apartment dwellers Landlord and tenant

Title: Lower East Side Housing Development

URL: https://www.lescoalition.org/

Description: "The mission of the Lower East Side Coalition Housing Development, Inc. (LEScoalition) is to improve and stabilize the quality of life for local residents by the development of new construction and the substantial rehabilitation of vacant housing stock to preserve affordable housing for individuals of low-to-moderate income. The organization is committed to providing professional, community-based not for profit management of new and rehabbed buildings in its portfolio. "

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Subject:   Community development,  Housing

Title: Governor Hochul unveils winning proposal to build 105 affordable housing units and arts and community space at former Lincoln Correctional Facility

URL: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-unveils-winning-proposal-build-105-affordable-housing-units-and-arts-and/

Description: "Governor Kathy Hochul today unveiled Seneca, the selected proposal to redevelop the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Manhattan. This proposed project would invest over $90 million in Harlem, bringing 105 affordable homeownership units, community spaces, and jobs with ambitious MWBE contracting and local hiring goals, all of which would contribute to the enduring prosperity of the Harlem community."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Urban development

Title: Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice

URL: https://www.gncj.org/

Description: "GNCJ was founded as a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition to elevate the voices of the Gowanus community in New York City’s planning process for Gowanus, Brooklyn. Over the past 5 years, GNCJ actively organized to ensure that the NYC DCP rezoning of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood would further fair housing, as well as environmental, racial, and economic justice. "

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Subject:   Community development Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.),  Housing

Title: Coalition for the Homeless

URL: https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/

Description: "The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families. We believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are fundamental rights in a civilized society. Since our inception in 1981, the Coalition has worked through litigation, public education and direct services to ensure that these goals are realized."

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Subject:   Homelessness,  Housing

Title: Carroll Gardens Association

URL: https://www.carrollgardensassociation.com/

Description: "Our mission is to foster a community where residents and families of all income levels in Southwest Brooklyn’s neighborhoods can live, work, and thrive. Carroll Gardens Association, Inc. fulfills this mission by preserving and developing affordable housing, enforcing quality housing management practices, promoting small business economic development, and providing and linking residents to social services and resources to improve the quality of their lives."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning Community development,  Housing

Title: Bridge Street Development Corporation

URL: https://www.bsdcorp.org/

Description: "Bridge Street Development Corporation (BSDC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the mission of which is to build partnerships with businesses, government, and other community stakeholders to provide civic and economic opportunities to the residents of Central Brooklyn with a focus on low to moderate-income households."

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Subject:   Community development Economic development,  Housing

Title: BRC

URL: https://www.brc.org/

Description: "BRC recognizes that the effort to end homelessness requires more than passion and experience, but also a sense of organizational responsibility and the strength to manage professionally. In the nearly 50 years that BRC has provided housing and treatment services to homeless adults in New York City, we have demonstrated continuing expertise in developing and delivering services with efficiency and positive outcomes."

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Subject:   Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street) Community development,  Housing ,  Homelessness

Title: West Side Neighborhood Alliance

URL: https://westsideneighborhoodalliance.wordpress.com/

Description: "The West Side Neighborhood Alliance is an independent, member-run organization sponsored by Housing Conservation Coordinators that mobilizes West Side residents to take charge of planning our community. We advocate for a diverse, affordable, livable neighborhood that preserves the mixed-income character of today’s West Side, and we work to guarantee that the ongoing development of our neighborhood serves community members of all races, incomes and backgrounds."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning Community development,  Housing

Title: Westbeth Home to the Arts, Westbeth Artists' Housing

URL: https://westbeth.org/

Description: "Westbeth Artists’ Housing was conceived in the 1960’s as a partial solution to the acute need to provide affordable housing and studios for artists and their families. In so doing, it became one of the first examples of adaptive reuse of industrial buildings for artistic and residential use in the United States."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Artists’ studios

Title: Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC : housing design competition

URL: https://urbaninfilldesigncompetition.cityofnewyork.us/

Description: "Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC is a two-stage design competition for small-scale, urban infill housing. The competition is organized by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY), and seeks to address the challenges associated with the design and construction of affordable housing on underutilized City-owned land."

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Subject:   Housing ,  City planning Design--Competitions

URL: https://takerootjustice.org/

Description: "TakeRoot Justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in New York City to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression."

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Subject:   Community development,  Housing ,  Legal aid

Title: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration

URL: https://restorationplaza.org/

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Subject:   Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.),  Housing ,  Community development

Title: Peter Marcuse's blog : critical planning and other thoughts

URL: https://pmarcuse.wordpress.com/

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Subject:   Housing ,  City planning

Title: Open New York

URL: https://opennewyork.city/

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Subject:   Housing ,  Zoning

Title: OneNYC 2050 : New York City's Strategic Plan

URL: https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/

Description: "OneNYC 2050 is a strategy to secure our city’s future against the challenges of today and tomorrow. With bold actions to confront our climate crisis, achieve equity, and strengthen our democracy, we are building a strong and fair city. Created under the requirements of Local Law 84 of 2013, OneNYC 2050 is New York City’s long-term strategic plan."

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Subject:   City planning Sustainable design,  Housing ,  Education Transportation

Title: Old Astoria Neighborhood Association

URL: https://oana-ny.org/

Description: "OANA is a 501c3 non-profit focusing on the part of Astoria bounded by Ditmars Boulevard and 36th Avenue, between the East River and 21st Street. We promote economic growth, quality of life, and cultural health in the neighborhood."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning,  Housing

Title: Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City

URL: https://gocoopnyc.org/

Description: "The Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City (CEANYC) strengthens and expands community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives — from worker, financial and consumer co-ops to community land trusts and gardens, mutual housing, and low-income housing co-ops. Our goal is to build an economy based on values of social and racial justice, ecological sustainability, cooperation, mutualism, and democracy."

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Subject:   Community development,  Housing

Title: Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City| Closing the Wealth Gap

URL: https://gocoopnyc.com/

Description: "The Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City (CEANYC) strengthens and expands community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives — from worker, financial and consumer co-ops to community land trusts and gardens, mutual housing, and low-income housing co-ops. Our goal is to build an economy based on values of social and racial justice, ecological sustainability, cooperation, mutualism, and democracy."

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Subject:   Community development,  Housing

Title: East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust, EHEBCLT

URL: https://ehebclt.nyc/

Description: "The East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust (EHEBCLT) works to develop and preserve community-controlled, truly and permanently affordable housing, commercial, green and cultural spaces in East Harlem/El Barrio that prioritizes households of extremely low to low incomes."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Land trusts

Title: CHPC New York City, Citizens Housing Planning Council

URL: https://chpcny.org/

Description: "For over 80 years, CHPC’s research has helped to shape public policy to improve the City’s housing stock and quality of life in NYC’s neighborhoods. Our methodologies combine data analysis, policy analysis, case studies, and interviews."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development

Title: CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities

URL: https://caaav.org/

Description: "CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City. Currently, we have three programs organizing low-income Asian immigrants in Chinatown and Queensbridge Public Housing for racial, gender, and economic justice."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Asian Americans

Title: Before it's gone / take it back : documenting Brooklyn--fighting gentrification

URL: https://beforeitsgone.co/

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Subject:   Gentrification,  Housing ,  Neighborhood planning Community development

Title: Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network

URL: https://bangentrification.org/

Description: "The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) is a people of color-led, mass-based coalition of tenants, homeowners, block associations, anti-police brutality groups, legal and grassroots organizations working together to end the rampant gentrification and displacement of low to middle income residents of Brooklyn, New York."

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Subject:   Gentrification,  Housing ,  Neighborhood planning Community development

Title: African American Planning Commission

URL: https://aapci.org/

Description: "The African American Planning Commission (AAPC) Inc., is a New York City-based 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization committed to reducing homelessness and addressing the related issues of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, substance abuse, shortage of affordable housing, and unemployment in the communities in which we live and serve."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development

Title: NYC Housing Preservation & Development

URL: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/index.page

Description: "Established in 1978, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the largest municipal housing preservation and development agency in the nation. The agency's mission is to make strategic investments that will improve and strengthen neighborhoods while preserving the stability and affordability of our existing housing stock."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Low-income housing City planning Urban development

Title: SustainableNYCT.org, New York & Connecticut Sustainable Communities

URL: http://www.sustainablenyct.org/

Description: "The New York-Connecticut metropolitan region includes New York City, Long Island, the lower Hudson Valley, and the coastal region of Connecticut stretching from Stamford to New Haven ... The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program supports metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that promote coordinated housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation and infrastructure investments in a manner that empowers jurisdictions to consider the interdependent challenges of these issues specific to their region."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Transportation Regional planning Sustainable urban development Sustainable development

Title: Stuyvesant Town--Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association

URL: http://www.stpcvta.org/

Description: "Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village were constructed for veterans returning from World War II. Its buildings are the iconic postwar development for middle-income families who wanted to build and maintain a full and fruitful life in New York City. We, as the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association, keep as our foundation this history in mind. Our goals are to preserve our community as affordable housing for families, with proper maintenance and robust open spaces, where people at the middle of the income spectrum can live and raise a family in peace and safety."

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Subject:   Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.),  Housing ,  Tenants' associations

Title: Save Manhattan Valley

URL: http://www.savemanhattanvalley.org/

Description: "Manhattan Valley is a working class neighborhood that runs from 96th to 110th Street, Broadway to Central Park West. Save Manhattan Valley (SMV) is a rapidly growing coalition of neighborhood groups, housing activists, residents of Manhattan Valley, car owners, parents of students at nearby schools and concerned individuals"

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Subject:   Housing ,  Land use Historic districts--Conservation and restoration

Title: Movement to Protect the People, MTOPP

URL: http://www.mtopp.org/

Description: "Our Mission is to Protect the moderate to low income people from being displaced from the Flatbush Ave, Lefferts Garden area, due to gentrification. We are determined to help true affordable housing, that is based upon the current population income and to provide assistance and support to maintain the current affordable housing stock."

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Subject:   Gentrification,  Housing ,  Community development

Title: Metropolitan Organization for the Real Expansion of New York City, MORENYC

URL: http://www.morenyc.org/

Description: "MORENYC--the Metropolitan Organization for the Real Expansion of New York City--works to expand the population and built environment of New York City in order to create jobs, lower housing costs and save the environment by encouraging more people to live in an urban environment of lower per capita energy use."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development

Title: GOLES, Good Old Lower East Side

URL: http://www.goles.org/

Description: "GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization."

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Subject:   Community development,  Housing ,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Flatbush Development Corporation

URL: http://www.fdconline.org/

Description: "Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) is dedicated to meeting the needs of a diverse Brooklyn community. FDC identifies and responds to these needs by creating programs, campaigns, and partnerships through economic development, housing, youth, immigration and other initiatives that promote enhanced quality of life, safety, and preservation of our community."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development Neighborhood planning

Title: FAR ROC for a Resilient Rockaway

URL: http://www.farroc.com/

Description: "FAR ROC [For a Resilient Rockaway] is a two-phase design competition that will explore innovative strategies for the planning, design and construction of a resilient and sustainable development at Arverne East, an 80+ acre site on the Rockaway Peninsula."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Sustainable development

Title: Equality for Flatbush

URL: http://www.equalityforflatbush.org/

Description: "Equality for Flatbush does affordable housing, anti-gentrification and police accountability organizing in Brooklyn. We’ve organized 'No Eviction Zones' in 9 neighborhoods in Brooklyn--including Bedford-Stuyvesant/Clinton Hill, Bushwick, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Sunset Park."

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Subject:   Gentrification,  Housing ,  Neighborhood planning Community development

Title: El Barrio Unite!

URL: http://www.elbarriounite.org/

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Subject:   Gentrification,  Housing

Title: Clinton Housing Development Company

URL: http://www.clintonhousing.org/

Description: "Clinton Housing Development Company (CHDC) is a non-profit housing organization committed to developing New York City's Clinton community and surrounding neighborhoods through the provision of permanent affordable housing. Since 1973, we have developed and expanded existing and new programs to provide comprehensive housing services from renovation to management to social services."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development

Title: Breaking Ground : building and restoring lives

URL: http://www.breakingground.org/

Description: "At Breaking Ground, we believe that everyone deserves a home. That's why, since 1990, we have been providing permanent affordable housing for individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Beginning with a single building, we are now New York City's largest provider of supportive housing. We own and/or operate 19 properties with a total of 3,530 transitional and permanent apartments in New York City and beyond."

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Subject:   Shelters for the homeless,  Housing

Title: ASAP - Artist Studio Affordability Project, Artist Studio Affordability Project

URL: http://www.artiststudioaffordabilityproject.org/

Description: "As gentrification spreads, we are priced out of neighborhood after neighborhood. Most working artists cannot afford this city's exponentially increasing studio rents: many of us are adjuncts, freelancers, part-time, or otherwise unprotected workers. We all know of fellow artists who have recently lost their spaces. The Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) is an effort to bring this issue to the attention of the public and local politicians. We focus on raising awareness about the crisis of affordable studio space, and on advocating legislation that will protect and expand affordable artist studios."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Gentrification

Title: Cooper Square Committee

URL: http://coopersquare.org/

Description: The Cooper Square Committee’s mission is to work with area residents to contribute to the preservation and development of affordable, environmentally healthy housing and community/ cultural spaces so that the Cooper Square area remains racially, economically and culturally diverse."

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Subject:   Cooper Square (New York, N.Y.) Community development,  Housing

Title: Center for New York City Neighborhoods

URL: http://cnycn.org/

Description: "We promote and protect affordable homeownership in New York so that middle- and working-class families can build strong, thriving communities."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Community development Neighborhood planning

Title: Brooklyn Housing Preservation Alliance

URL: http://brooklynhpa.com/

Description: "The Brooklyn Housing Preservation Alliance is non-profit organization of local residents committed to preserving the residential zoning of homes from illegal conversions by educating the community."

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Subject:   Housing ,  Historic districts--Conservation and restoration

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