On June 8th, 2012 students from the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice in Borough Park presented “Boom Town.” For this City Studies project 9th graders in an English Language Arts class worked with CUP teaching artist Ellie Irons to look at noise issues ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7PM
Will you be ready if a disaster strikes? What about your neighborhood? Who’s responsible for making a plan for your community? While government officials have a city-wide plan, and plenty of advice to share with individuals, there’s not much out there on ...
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- the American Red Cross in Greater New York
520 West 49th St (between 10th & 11th Aves)
New York, NY
Friday, February 10, 2012 12:20PM
Students from Mr. Sandoval’s 9th Grade U.S. History class who helped to create a “Field Guide to Federalism” presented it to their peers at the Academy of Urban Planning.
To create the booklet students hit the streets of Bushwick with teaching artist ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:30PM
On January 19th we celebrated the launch of our new website.
Check out photos from the event here.
- CUP HQ
232 Third Street #D201
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, November 10, 2011 12PM
On November 10, CUP presented our Urban Investigation “Power Trip” to a buzzing group of Queens high schoolers. The project —a collaboration between CUP, CUP teaching artist Samantha Contis, and students from Aviation High School— asked “where ...
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- Queens Public Library, Broadway Branch
40-20 Broadway
Long Island City, NY
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7PM
On Tuesday, September 6, we debuted Share, Where?, one of CUP’s Urban Investigations. An intrepid group of Bronx public high school students in the College Now program at Hostos Community College teamed up with CUP to find out how NYC decides where to put the ...
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- The Savoy
at Hostos Community College
120 East 149 Street, 2nd Floor
(at Walton Avenue)
Bronx, NY
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7PM
Blackberries, Razors, and Droids, OMG! We spend so much time with them, but do we know anything about how cell phones work? How do our voices travel through the air? Why do our cell phone bills work the way they do? Who owns the air?
What the Cell? is a collaboration ...
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- William S. Paley Foundation
1 East 53rd Street
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6PM
Two years and two billion dollars from now, New York will get its first new subway stop in 22 years. Who decides where new subway stops go? And which comes first – the subway or the people?
- The Lot under the High Line at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue
Saturday, May 7, 2011 3PM
The debut presentation of Store Stories, a look into 99-cent stores, barbershops, and gift shops across three Brooklyn neighborhoods was held at the Brooklyn College Art Lab on May 7, 2011. CUP teaching artist Mads Lynnerup and students in the Brooklyn College Community ...
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- Brooklyn College Art Lab
301 Roosevelt Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Thursday, April 21, 2011 7PM
Money. Dinero. Cash Money. We use it every day. But how much does really it cost? And does everyone pay the same price for it? April 21 marked the world debut presentation of $ Breakdown, inside the former Deutsche Bank vault on Wall Street.
- The Vault at 14 Wall Street
14 Wall Street between New Street and Nassau Street
New York, NY
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:30PM
Fall may be just around the corner, but let’s take it back to the summer of 2010 when 15 high school students came together to tackle a subject that baffles even the most seasoned experts: Community Benefit Agreements, a.k.a …CBAs.
Are CBAs the best way to ...
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- Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse, 3rd Floor
2/4/5 to 149th Street Grand Concourse
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7PM
CUP and our Making Policy Public partners hosted a triple-launch event and panel discussion at Bluestockings Bookstore. Each new MPP focuses on a particular vulnerable group – noncitizens, youth, and formerly incarcerated people – and the institutions, ...
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- Bluestockings
172 Allen St
New York, NY
