Livable Neighborhoods: Training Emerging Community Planners from all Five Boroughs
May 18th, 2012
On May 12, MAS hosted the 6th annual Livable Neighborhoods Training. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer gave the welcome address to a group of more than one hundred people representing all five boroughs. The all-day training was held at Pratt Manhattan and co-sponsored by Pratt Institute’s Programs in Sustainable Planning and Development. The semi-annual event brings together a diverse group of participants from community boards Continue Reading>>
More than 2,500 New Yorkers (and visitors!) took to the streets last weekend for Jane’s Walk NYC. Coordinated by MAS, working with over two dozen partner organizations, Jane’s Walk NYC is a weekend of free, hosted walks, and bike rides in all five boroughs led by local residents, urban enthusiasts and those who care deeply about their neighborhoods and city. 
MAS President Vin Cipolla will moderate a panel at Megaprojects, a one-day international conference organized by The Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University (CURE) on May 11. The conference will convene leading developers, architects, engineers and urban planners to explore megaprojects, while addressing the issues faced and the lessons learned in developing and operating megaprojects in New York as well as in London. 
More than 300 arts community members, planners, policymakers and funders packed the auditorium at the National Museum of the American Indian Tuesday evening to listen to an expert panel discuss creative placemaking and new impact measures focusing on vibrancy being developed (
MAS is very pleased to present a special Arts Forum panel discussion on Tuesday, April 24th supported by ArtPlace and the Rockefeller Foundation, Measuring Vibrancy: The Impacts of Arts and Culture Investments in Placemaking. MAS is convening urban leaders from the development, design, economic development, research, and real estate communities nationwide to discuss options for measuring the impacts of creative placemaking. 
Nearly 200 community members, NYU students and faculty packed the Scholastic auditorium Tuesday evening to listen to an expert panel debate NYU’s plans to add a significant amount of density to two Greenwich Village area superblocks (
MAS is committed to advocating for public amenities that contribute to the livability of New York City and its diverse neighborhoods. To that end, MAS 
Join MAS on Tuesday, March 27, for a panel discussion on NYU’s expansion plan. New York University is the latest city institution to evoke controversy with its ambitious expansion plan which would more than double the amount of density on two Greenwich Village area superblocks. NYU, like Columbia and Fordham, is an important New York City institution; however, each institution’s success relies as much on its location within New York City as in its state-of-the-art facilities. 
We’re off to an exciting start to 2012 as we launch an expanded line-up of innovative new programming and social opportunities for Urbanists in their 20s and 30s.
Have you ever wondered what that strange door in the hallway of your building was originally intended for? Or who lived there one hundred years ago? Wouldn’t you like to know who built your favorite buildings in New York City?
Join MAS for the 
As New York prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, MAS is once again setting up for its presentation of 
On Wednesday, May 11, several top American and Canadian thinkers on architecture and historic preservation participated in a panel co-sponsored by MAS and the New York Landmarks Conservancy focused on the challenge of preserving the New York City skyline.