Aaron Donovan

Brooklyn

Atlantic Yards Developer Accepts 8% Reduction in Project (NYT) Critics Say Hudson Yards Deal Imperils MTA (NYT) Pols: All Aboard Hudson Yards Deal (NY Post) MTA Finally Takes New York Sun Editorial Board’s Advice (NY Sun) Oil and Gas Prices Fall but Heating Bills May Not (Daily News) 7-Eleven Drops Citgo Gas Supplies After Chavez … Continued

Location: NYU Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor

Sprawl: A Compact History: A Panel discussion with author Robert Bruegmann

As recent brownouts and blackouts illustrate, bringing power to the five boroughs is a constant infrastructure challenge. Chairman of the Energy Task Force and Executive Vice President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Gil Quinones will be joined by Kate Ascher, Executive Vice President of the EDC and author of The Works: Anatomy of a City (Penguin, 2005), to discuss how New York City is addressing power distribtion, energy supply, energy consumption, and the "electricity roadmap" for the future.

Artist Brings Public Seating to the ‘Burg (Gothamist) Bigger MTA Surplus Seen for This Year (NYT) Woman Crushed Under SUV Saved by UES Passers-By (Daily News) Pact Reached to Redevelop Far West Side (NYT) Opera Season Opens on Times Square’s Big Screens (Gothamist) Cop Charged in Fatal DWI Crash Weeps at Trial (NY Post) Push for a Downtown Brooklyn B.I.D. (NY … Continued

Of the ten largest cities in the United States, New York has far and away the greatest population density: 26,402.9 people per square mile, more than double the second densest big city, Chicago. The chart at right shows how the largest metropolitan areas stack up in terms of core population, overall population and core population density.  This fact alone should force New York City authorities to think differently than the rest of the country on all sorts of matters of public policy. New York is a quantitatively different animal than the other big American metropolitan regions in terms of percentage of people that live in the core, density and size of the core and size of the metropolitan area.

(Photo by lostinfog on flickr)

L.I. Driver Dead as Airborne Crash Hits Second Floor (NY Post) Two Friends Fighting by Side of Van Wyck Are Killed (Newsday)  L.I. Motorist Kills Nephew (NY Post)   Crash in Woodbridge, N.J., Kills 2 and Injures 2 (NYT) A Third Person Dies in Woodbridge Crash (NYT) Pals Lived and Died Together (Star-Leger)  N.Y. Soldier Dies in Arizona Traffic Accident (AP via Newsday) … Continued

The Broadway Democrats forum whas invited speaker Dr. Klaus Lackner, affiliated with Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Neil Chambers, president, Chambers Design, Inc., Founder, Green Ground Zero