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  Painting the Town Pink

  Kathryn Kondracki | Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, art, kat kondracki, catherine kolnaski magnet school, trash, garbage, adrian kondratowicz, renee mlynaryk, garbage bags | 0

  Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real?

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  MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: architecture, diana lind, moma, home delivery, prefab | 0

  MoMA’s big summer show is called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. If this is the future of architecture, I regrettably have to say I want no part of it.

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• Headlines

  Untangling Intersections

  Kathryn Kondracki | Fri, Jul 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, transportation, brooklyn, kat kondracki, transportation alternatives, wiley norvell, alternative transportation, 21st century street, sustainable, streets, intersection | 0

  Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based advocacy group for walking, bicycling, and public transit, encourages the public to register in a complete street design competition.
  

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• The Daily Report

  The Big Apple’s Little Gambles

  Diana Lind | Thu, Jul 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: transportation, downtown, transit, diana lind, brooklyn, paris, manhattan, bikes, bike share 2008, congestion, city room blog | 1

  New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real?

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• The Daily Report

  Park Ave. Goes Pedestrian

  Kathryn Kondracki | Wed, Jun 18th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: New York | Tags: new york city, kat kondracki, michael bloomberg, transportation alternatives, wiley norvell, janette sadik-khan, summer streets | 2

  New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announce the pedestrian and bicycle-friendly initiative, Summer Streets. Kathryn Kondracki reports.

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• Underpaid, Under-trained NYPD Officers Make Deadly Decisions

  Chanel Lee | Tue, Apr 29th, 2008 | City: Brooklyn | Tags: new york city, crime, brooklyn, police, color, queens, bloomberg, nypd, chanel lee, ruling, sean bell | 1

  Last Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered his highly anticipated verdict in the trial of three NYPD detectives accused of killing Sean Bell. Can Bell’s death and others like it be attributed to the fact that NYPD officers and patrolmen are underpaid and insufficiently trained? Next American City welcomes new guest columnist, Chanel Lee.

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