Livable Streets: A New Vision For New York
In a city where the best was to get around is your own two feet, it still astounds me how much this city still caters to cars and not pedestrians. In the new exhibit Livable Streets: A New Vision For New York opening today such concepts will be explored. "Roads and parking lots cover more than half of NYC's open space. This exhibition explores the relationship between automobiles and quality of life and raises the notion that streets are reclaimable as vital public spaces." The show will run through March 29th, and be sure to check the extended entry for info on the dicussions and lectures they will be hosting.
Date: Wednesday, February 21st
Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm (open daily, closed Thursdays and Sundays)
Location: Urban Center Galleries, 457 Madison Ave at East 51st
Cost: Free
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NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRAFFIC: How Does Traffic Affect New Yorkers'
Quality of Life? With Karla Quintero of Transportation Alternatives.
Wed 2.15:630-8p.
BETTER STREETS=BETTER BUSINESS: How to Attract the Walking Shopper.
Pedestrian friendly spaces and traffic calming measures better
commerce and
tourism in New York City. Thurs 2.23:830-10a.
BROADWAY AS A DESTINATION. Some of the worst intersections in the city
line the Broadway corridor. BID directors, Project for Public Spaces,
and Regional Plan Association discuss the potential appeal of Broadway
as boulevard. Mon 2.27:630-8p.
STICKBALL: Past, Present, and Future of the Quintessential NYC Street
Game. Stickball was the ultimate New York street game, requiring only
a broom handle, a ball, players, and a safe street. Can it make a
comeback? Wed 3.15:630-8p.
CONNECTING NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVISTS WITH RESOURCES. Learn about
resources—including technological tools, planning and advocacy
assistance, videography, and media strategy—that the NYC Streets
Renaissance provides to neighborhood leaders working to improve their
streets and traffic. Mon 3.20:630-8p.
DESIGNING PUBLIC CONSENSUS: The Civic Theater of Community
Participation for Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers. Author
Barbara Faga and contributing writers Alexander Garvin and Gary Hack
discuss projects in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Mon 3.27:630-8p.
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Do You Think I'm Disco?
Tonight is the opening reception for Do You Think I'm Disco?, a mixed medium group show dedicated to 60's and 70's club culture and its effect on the arts. Expect the usual mixed bag of good and bad that comes with these group shows but with artwork titles like "Funky Cold Medina" it may be worth checking out. Show runs through March 18th
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College (450 Grand Concourse at 149th, Bronx)
Cost: Free
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Dorkbot
"People doing strange things with electricity. Come help us celebrate the Lunar New Year. Please bring refreshments to share. Featuring the lovely and talented Ge Wang: ChucK with On-the-fly Programming and the Audicle, different parts of a new programming system and paradigm for real-time audio synthesis and multimedia; Anton Perich's painting machine; and Carrie Dashow's recent works, collaborating with diverse groups of people to create enjoyable collective experiences transcending what we may expect of our interactions."
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 26 Greene Street, between Canal and Grand
Cost: Free
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80's Throwback
Relive the 80's, you know, whe you were like 6 and people had to hit an open bar at 7pm because they needed to get home to watch the Family Ties at 8pm before going to bed at 9. DJ Link spins... not sure what is opne to drink.
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Stay (244 East Houston between A & B)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: ???, 7-8
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Get Your Film Fix
Something I really like writing about, but rarely get to, are free films. Fix in Williamsburg is now doing a weekly film night. On the big screen (ok fine, it's probably actually not quite so big) tonight and every Wednesday are "a wide variety of films, shorts, tv shows, obscure bits of film, trailers, features, commercials, animation, home movies (you name it) all projected in 16, 8 and super8mm!"
Date: Wednesday, February 1
Time: 8:00pm to 2:00am
Location: FixLounge, 110 Bedford Ave (enter on N 11th)
Cost: Free
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Free London Screening
"In collaboration with L Magazine, [galapagos] presenting a Free Screening of the feature film London, starring Jessica Biel. It's a a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend." Note, last time we tried to go to this there was a space so packed that no only could you not get into the screening but you could not get to the bar. My recommendation is that if you are going to this then get there early.
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Galapagos Art Space (70 North 6th Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP
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Pure Fire with Crunc Tesla
The Pure Fire weekly - home of the finest local crunkgrimebreakcorehiphopdancehall rhymes takes it up a notch tonight with Atlanta-bred Brooklyn transplant DJ Raedawn aka Crunc Tesla and his unique blend of fractured-techno rap. What exactly does that sound like? well, you can get a peak here but you'll have to roll through to find out what it is really all about. Although Raedawn is playing shows all week, this should be the sickest night of the lot. As always, residents Critereon, Reaganomics, and Peter Gunn keep the tables on lock down all night.
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Subtonic (107 Norfolk Street)
Cost: Free
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Neat Neat Neat
Sometimes I feel like the rock parties gets left out in the cold over here at FreeNYC. So here is a good party for the rock and roll kids to go play at. Neat Neat Neat is a new monthly party at Manitoba's, with $3 beer and Mike C. DJing.
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Manitoba's, 99 Avenue B (bet. 6th & 7th)
Cost: Free
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Bang With The Captain
Help celebrate The Captain's birthday (which is actually tomorrow, along with mine!) tonight as he mans the decks at the always insane Bang! Expect vodka special, crazysexycool girls and a good dose of sinfulness.
Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Beauty Bar (231 East 14th between 2nd and 3rd)
Cost: Free
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