Michele Bogart

#Urbanism+ #landmarkpreservation #architecture #NewYorkCity #archives #neighborhood #grants #history #funding #StatenIsland #Bronx #Queens #Brooklyn #Manhattan

But you have to emphasize the why and how very self-consciously. It’s a little “meta” but that’s the focus. Talk to NYPAP if you’re not sure.

This grant relevant to small groups in all five boroughs, as well as big orgs. Efforts (successful or not) to create historic districts, to get individual buildings landmarked or other attempts to preserve distinctive local aspects of built environment all worthy topics.

When applying, be sure to address explicitly *how* your material highlights and contributes to the *history* of *PRESERVATION* in New York City.

New round of #grants! This is an “initiative to help historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations and similar institutions identify and maintain their archival resources related to stories of historic preservation.”
www.nypap.org/shelby-white...

It’s not merely that it’s incredibly excessive and vulgar. We’ve come to expect that in his interior decorating taste. It’s also just really poorly crafted stuff.

This is great.
Keep it up.

Take photos of national park signs now, before they’re whitewashed

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

'We're as active as California': What everyone needs to know about this week's earthquakes in NJ Experts say you shouldn't worry about the big one.

Shake it, bay-beh! gothamist.com/news/were-as...

Superman’s Earthly Birthplace? It’s Cleveland, and It’s Embracing Its Hero.

Seriously? Do Man of Steel and company have to look quite so stiff? #statues #Superman www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

“Studies dispute Kennedy’s claim.”

An Oval Office Replica Opens, Without Trump’s Gilded Flourishes

Lessons in interior decorating. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

With both Isamu Noguchi’s Mississippi Fountain (1961-1962) and Charles Ginnever’s The Bird (for Charlie Parker) (1979)

#Grants! www.indiespace.org/venue-grant

Thank you—yes, indeed.

New Smithsonian exhibit highlights American fairs, including crop art, butter from Minnesota An August exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, inspired by Minnesota’s State Fair traditions, will highlight American craft through artworks like crop art, butter sculptures and textiles.

I will be thinking of the great work of the late Pamela Simpson and Karal Ann Marling, pioneers in this realm. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

[A][D][E][F] trains are running with delays in both directions after we addressed a loss of power to our signals at W 4 St-Wash Sq.

Vital City | Adams’ Abdication Has New York City at Trump’s Mercy But a new mayor won’t end the president’s pressure campaign.

Scary stuff from #HarrySiegel #Urbanism+ #NewYorkCity #mayor www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/ada...

Better to be prepared and proactive. Hope everyone’s ok.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

"One detainee was beaten unconscious. Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Extra Extra: Trump administration won't fund High Line for Queens A rendering of the QueensWay / The Trust for Public Land Because the QueensWay project just lost $112 million in federal funding, here are your afternoon links: George Soros' son's West Village townhouse construction is bothering people, anti-Mamdani Super PACs, "black cat boyfriends" and more. [ more › ]

Extra Extra: Trump administration won't fund High Line for Queens https://gothamist.com/news/extra-extra-trump-administration-wont-fund-high-line-for-queens

Fantastic double portrait. Is it on display now? Could it still be?

Ugh

There is something wrong when the print edition of @nytimes.com does not have next morning coverage of an event in midtown in which a police officer and three civilians are murdered at around 6:30 pm.

Collecting the “Other Americas” The term *pre-Columbian art* once described the material culture produced in the Americas, mostly south of the US-Mexico border, prior to the arrival of Europeans. Museums across the United States now...

Our first digital Mayer Symposium volume launched! Read all about how US museums collected art from the ancient Americas! Mayer2023.denartmus.org

In action!

A deep dive on the Hess Triangle via @chriswhong.bsky.social chriswhong.com/open-data/in... (part 2 talks about other similar triangles!) cc @urbaninsideout.bsky.social

Thank you!

Thanks very much. I haven’t yet been able to go look at it.

If that is a city sidewalk, and if that thing is supposed to be stuck there for more than a year, then it is illegal (in addition to being hideous.) They have to get approval, via DOT, from Public Design Commission. Either way, they are not permitted to simply stick that object on City sidewalk.