On November 20th, 2013, CUP launched What Is Zoning? the second in our series of Envisioning Development Toolkits, with a party and four days of hands-on community workshops.
Zoning law regulates land use across the city and shapes buildings, blocks, and whole neighborhoods. ...
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- 155D East Broadway
New York, NY
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7PM
There are a lot of schools in New York City. Some doing well. Others… not so well. What happens to these schools? When can a faltering school be salvaged and when should it be shuttered? How does the Department of Education make decisions about what schools get closed? ...
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- The New School
Bark Room
2 West 13th Street, 1st Floor
New York, New York
N/Q/R/L/4/5/6 to Union Sq
Saturday, October 5, 2013 3PM
What is the role of a museum today? A place for quiet contemplation? A giant fun house? A really artsy mall? Museums are wildly diverse in their sizes, annual operating budgets, missions, and their urban context.
This summer 15 public high school students from across the ...
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- Dia:Chelsea
535 W 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York
C/E trains to 23rd Street
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7PM
Every restaurant in New York has a grade. Lots of people decide where to eat based on those grades but what do they really mean? Where do they come from?
Students from Lyons Community School worked with CUP teaching artist Leigh Davis to go behind the letters. They ...
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- Colors Restaurant
417 Lafayette Street
New York, NY
N/R to 8th St-NYU, 6 to Astor Pl
Thursday, April 4, 2013 7PM
From the days of Tammany to the era of TiVo, New Yorkers always had to make do with cramped living conditions. Many see micro-apartments as a way to fix to New York’s housing crunch. However, others worry that these snug accommodations serve only a narrow group. ...
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- Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St, 2nd fl
New York, NY
F/J/M/Z to Delancey-Essex St, B/D to Grand St
Remás and CUP presented our new Making Policy Public “Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú” to the Si Se Puede women’s housecleaning cooperative in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Monday, March 18, 2013 7:15PM
At almost any New York City bodega, you can quick-draw, scratch, or mega-million your way towards million dollar jackpots. Thousands of New Yorkers play the lottery every day. But how does the lottery really work? Who is playing, and where does all the money go? Who wins and ...
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- Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue (at Second Street)
New York, NY
F to 2nd Avenue
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7PM
The issue of “fracking” is all over the news. But what is fracking? Who wants to do it? And how could stuff in rocks upstate affect people who live in East Coast cities?
Join us for the launch of the latest installment from our Making Policy Public poster series: ...
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- The Cooper Union
Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square, Lower Level
on Third Avenue (btwn 6th & 7th streets)
Students from a City Studies class at Academy of Urban Planning presented the Government in Plain Sight project to their peers. The booklet looks at government’s role in the neighborhood.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 7PM
Who decides where supermarkets go? Does the Bronx have enough supermarkets? Does it matter?
This summer, CUP collaborated with teaching artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and a group of Bronx public high school students from CUNY College Now at Hostos Community College to ...
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- New York University
35 W. 4th Street, Room 1080
Monday, July 23, 2012 7PM
New York City has public high schools with every imaginable theme, a dizzying array of application requirements, and charter schools galore. Choosing from one of NYC’s over 400 public high schools can be a real task. How do you decide where you go to school? And ...
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- Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY
E/M to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street
B/D/F/M to Rockefeller Center
Monday, June 25, 2012 6:45PM
Where does NYC’s electricity come from? People were buzzing about the debut public presentation of Power Trip, CUP’s Urban Investigation about New York City’s electricity infrastructure. To get to the power source, CUP, teaching artist ...
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- Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue (at 2nd St)
New York, NY
F to 2nd Avenue
