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About MAS For 120 years the Municipal Art Society has made New York a more livable city by advocating for excellence in urban planning and design, a commitment to historic preservation and the arts, and the empowerment of local communities to effect change in their neighborhoods. From saving Grand Central Terminal and the lights of Times Square, to establishing groundbreaking land-use and preservation laws that have become national models, MAS has been at the forefront of New York’s most important campaigns to promote our city’s economic vitality, cultural vibrancy, environmental sustainability, and social diversity. For more information, visit mas.org. About the Project: Ideas for New York’s New Leadership draws on the diversity of interests and expertise that shape the city: planners, designers, artists, elected officials, academics, entrepreneurs, corporate business and community activists. To enrich the discussion about the next set of policy ideas for New York City, The Municipal Art Society (MAS) invited a cross-section of New Yorkers with knowledge in various urban policy areas to offer their guidance to the new leadership. Each contributor discusses a key issue, opportunity or priority for action within a specific domain. The ideas that follow do not necessarily reflect the views of MAS, but are presented to stimulate a diverse and inclusive discourse to inform decision making and priority setting. March 2014 Table of Contents Tony Hiss 6 Foreword The Municipal Art Society of New York 8 Introduction Integrated Planning Strategies for the City Joan Byron 15 Mobility and Equity in the Tale of Two Cities Director of Policy // The Pratt Center for Community Development Adam Friedman 19 Innovating Jobs Director // The Pratt Center for Community Development Richard Olcott 22 Venice on the Hudson Architect // Ennead Architects Stefan Knust Director of Sustainability // Ennead Architects Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD 24 Jobs and Housing Make Stable Communities Research Psychiatrist // New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Molly Rose Kaufman Provost // University of Orange Neighborhood Assets: Investments for the 21st Century Toni L. Griffin 28 Is New York City a Just City? Director // J. Max Bond Center, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College, CUNY Steve Hindy 31 A Tale of Two Parks Cofounder & Chairman // Brooklyn Brewery Roy Strickland 33 Renaissance Plan for New York City’s Public Housing Professor of Architecture // University of Michigan Ronda Wist 36 Making the Case for Civic Assets Vice President, Preservation & Government Relations // The Municipal Art Society Sophia Koven Founder // Gambit Consulting Alison Carnduff President // Barrett & Company and Spring 2013 Fellow, The Municipal Art Society Supporting Diversity Through Arts and Culture Sandra A. García Betancourt 40 Toward Real Change Executive Director & CEO // Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Lane Harwell 42 The Arts and New York Are One Executive Director // Dance/NYC Michael Royce 45 Creative Individuals Equal a Creative City Executive Director // New York Foundation for the Arts Building a More Resilient City Jesse M. Keenan 50 Many Birds with One Stone: Research Director // Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE.), Columbia University Adaptation and Economic Development Peter Lehner 54 Scaling Up Energy in Low-Income Housing Executive Director // Natural Resources Defense Council Mary W. Rowe 56 All Hands on Deck: Building a Resilience Constituency Director, Urban Resilience and Livability // The Municipal Art Society Andrew Yan Senior Urban Planner // BTAworks 61 Contributors’ Biographies 64 Acknowledgments FOREWORD by Tony Hiss here are moments in New York say, there are no “undesirable people,” can innately and instantly read, such as when our vast, rushing city seems only undesirable conditions. When it Welcome or Move along; You’re safe here Tto pause, when people throughout comes to the city’s 334 housing projects, or Watch out; There are people here you’ll our more than 325 neighborhoods are which house 400,000 New Yorkers, Roy like or Not your kind; This takes me back poised and ready to listen to one another, Strickland celebrates them as “an asset, or Not this again. to reassess where we are as a city and not a liability,” whose “residents are where we’re going. Now is one of those assets” and whose homes can become Toni Griffin’s “Just City Indicator 6 moments, when we find ourselves eager “centers of vital neighborhoods”— Project” gets to the heart of this link, to think again about the essentials of a “without demolition or displacement.” augmenting the PlaNYC sustainability modern city, and how it can stay true to indicators, which measure how clean its highest purposes by cherishing the Then again, wells can eventually run the air and water are by incorporating dignity and worth of everyone here, all dry and, like many watchwords, oneness “qualitative dimensions of what makes eight-and-a-third million of us. It’s well could become a buzzword and lose the built environment conducive to known that cities create efficiencies: by its strength, a phrase evoked but not greater inclusion, diversity, equality concentrating people, making it easier implemented. These essays demonstrate and democracy.” It’s a scale that would to stay in touch, move around, make a specific transformations that are possible let us assess whether, for instance, the living, create undreamt-of experiences when you look afresh at a city through design of new “places and spaces aid in and opportunities. But less well known “sense-of-we” lenses: encouraging a young African American is that when cities are in tune with teenager’s sense of belonging in a public Everyday objects can have hidden value. themselves, they have an extra dimension park in Midtown Manhattan.” Imagine An express bus, for instance, as Joan Byron —accelerating human understanding, more public spaces that encourage points out, if given its own right-of-way, constructing an environment where, rather than discourage a greater diversity can be a lifeline, a springboard, a launch when people are working together and of young New Yorkers—the ultimate pad for people who can’t afford cars but looking after one another, each successive wellspring of the city. who, to make ends meet, have had to move generation can meet ever larger into neighborhoods built for car owners There are many other bright ideas challenges. and now spend two hours a day getting bubbling up in these few pages—about This short but remarkable book presents to and from work. (These fast-bus routes parks, artists, landmarks, affordable 14 ready-to-go ideas—some big and cost less than 1% of a new subway line.) housing, and replenishing nature along bold, some small but perhaps even And what if a MetroCard could get you out our river edges. In a memorable phrase, bolder—about bringing New York’s extra on the water? That’s the question Richard Adam Friedman tells us it’s time to MAS Presents : Ideas for New York’s New Leadership : Ideas for New York’s Presents MAS dimension back into focus. Here are Olcott and Stefan Knust raise, arguing for a “capture the next ripple,” meaning thoughts and plans and visions directed, large fleet of small ferries that extend mass that we’re clever at coming up with as Joan Byron says in her essay, “toward transit across the Hudson, the East River, original products but then we let the rewriting our ‘tale of two cities.” How and the harbor, and create “memorable manufacturing of them and all those would the future story of one city read? destinations for generations to come.” It good jobs slip away. “Design/Production Eendraght maeckt maght is the old Dutch all builds on one of the best initiatives Innovation Districts” can fix this by motto on the Brooklyn borough flag, a of the Bloomberg administration—the giving equal value to inner “innovation phrase usually translated as “In unity realization that a street can have more uses cores” and outer “production rings.” Like there is strength.” But it derives from than just driving and parking. It’s a great so much in this book, the idea encourages an even older, if slightly longer, Roman public space, too, a place to move through us to expand on what New York has concept, the insight that “Concord will but also one to be savored and shared been and still is, to keep the city rushing make small things flourish, discord by motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians forward, but with care so we don’t will destroy great things.” Practically alike. Here is where the eight-and-a third stumble or lose our way. million mingle. speaking, one city simply works better I look forward to being part of a city that than two. The built environment isn’t just something opens its arms to the flourishing of small “Oneness” is more than an undercurrent around us, because it’s also building things and great things alike. n in this book: it is its wellspring. Writing, something within. The physical and social for instance, about the strength of environments are inextricably linked. neighborhoods, Mindy Thompson Every structure and every public space Fullilove and Molly Rose Kaufman is festooned with wordless messages we 7 INTRODUCTION 8 MAS Presents: Ideas for New York’s New Leadership MAS Presents : Ideas for New York’s New Leadership : Ideas for New York’s Presents MAS s New York City welcomes Through this lens of collective are valued and protected. And, as we Mayor de Blasio and new optimism, we look forward to taking have for over fifty years, we continue Aleadership across the five a fresh look at the challenges and to increase urban literacy by offering boroughs, we at the Municipal Art opportunities that lie ahead. dynamic walking tours and organizing Society (MAS) are hopeful that today’s thought-provoking public conversations leaders will build on the successes Throughout our 120-year history, MAS through events like our annual MAS of the last administration while also has been at the forefront of New York Summit for New York City.

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