Michael Inman

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Richard McGahey |Liviu Chelcea |Michael Inman |Mary Karmelek

Residential buildings in New York City | M_Makarov / ShutterstockIn January 2025, Urban Matters, Center of New York City Affair’s weekly journal of ideas and opinion, wrapped up a wide-ranging two-part interview with noted urban policy expert Richard McGahey on the likely impact of New York City’s newly adopted “City of Yes”’” zoning package intended to jumpstart housing production.

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Mary Karmelek |Michael Inman |Liviu Chelcea |Achilles Kallergis

“An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders” by Owen Smith at NYCT 36th Street Station | Photo: David Lubarsky / Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityWeekday mornings, as I walk to the 36th Street subway stop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I quicken my pace, anxious that if I miss the train, I’ll be late for work; worried that if it’s too crowded, I won’t get a seat on the 40-minute commute that lies ahead.

Nov 26, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Michael Inman |Mary Karmelek |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Helen Schulman

Postcard of Polly’s Restaurant, Greenwich Village (ca. 1917) | Jessie Tarbox Beals / Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Miss Mathilde Mourraille, 1938This past October, the New York Public Library launched Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912–1923, an exhibition documenting one of the most impactful countercultures in American history.