Felt great biking down FDR Drive with no cars! Thanks to the Five Boro Bike Tour.
LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC’s Lower East Side
What is the LowLine?
We want to transform an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into the world’s first underground park. It will be a new kind of public space, using solar technology for natural illumination, and cutting edge design to capture and highlight a very special industrial space.
Walk for Water
Pictured above, my friend Shana and I organized a “Walk for Water” event last month in order to demonstrate and empathize for the women and children who have to do this daily—the daily task of having to walk, on average, 3.5 miles in search of water.
Joining us on the walk were nine 10th graders from Northside Charter in Brooklyn, and a few New School students, all simulating the daily chore of the thousands of women and children in developing countries. We were quite the sight to see in lower Manhattan.
Providing water and sanitation are vital first steps out of poverty. More than one in six people worldwide - 894 million - don’t have access to adequate safe freshwater.
Photo credit: Justin Silles
Hi New York. What a lovely 5-day forecast. Thanks for warming up a bit, though. I’ll take snow over negative degree weather any day.
Grad student in New York City. Blogging about: traveling, international affairs, Nepal, recipes, water & sanitation, India, travel photos, economic development.
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