Recent Media Coverage

Recent media stories either about or including the Municipal Art Society of New York. Some articles are behind pay walls.

2024

• Time to think big for fixing the BQE, NY Daily News, September 6, 2024
• Mayor must fully fund our ‘backyards’ — parks, Queens Chronicle, June 6, 2024
• After a $23G Overhaul, the First Statue of a Woman in a NYC Public Park Is Restored on UWS, Our Town, June 5, 2024
• Run-Down UWS Monument Gets New Shine Through City Art Program, Patch, June 4, 2024
• A Plaza Renovation Shows a Path Forward for Privately Owned Public Spaces, Bloomberg, June 2, 2024
• Opinion: Free NYC’s Block Parties from Suffocating Red Tape, City Limits, May 23, 2024
• A Cold, Hard Tour of Brutalist New York City, Hyperallergic, May 21, 2024
• A Jane’s Walk may reveal a city you don’t know, Queens Chronicle, April 25, 2024
• Our Beautiful Brooklyn Blocks, Brownstoner, April 4, 2024
• Amtrak: Penn Station Needs to Expand Beyond Current Footprint, Our Town, March 18, 2024
• Op-ed: City of Yes housing plan is refreshingly holistic, Crain’s, March 6, 2024
• A Day in New York City with The Municipal Art Society’s Rawnak Zaman, Madame Architect, March 6, 2024
• New Yorkers Mourn the Loss of 60 Wall Street Atrium, Untapped Cities, January 26, 2024

2023

• Get to know the Upper Grand Concourse with a Municipal Art Society walking tour, News 12, August 31, 2023
• Council committees approve five-year operating permit for MSG, leaving Garden “disappointed”, NY Daily News, August 28, 2023
• New Yorkers Got Broken Promises. Developers Got 20 Million Sq. Ft., The New York Times, July 21, 2023
• New Link5G tower applications put on pause throughout NYC, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 14, 2023
• Fix Penn and leave MSG in place, NY Daily News, May 17, 2023
• Plan B for Fixing Penn Station Would Wrap Madison Square Garden in Glass, The New York Times, March 28, 2023
• Preservation Coalition Calls for Urgent Action to Save a Unique Public Space, The Tribeca Trib, March 23, 2023
• $1.6B project to protect Gowanus Canal from sewage overflow breaks ground, Brooklyn Eagle, March 15, 2023
• NYC wants to speed up public projects. Some design experts are worried., Gothamist, March 15, 2023
• Colored School No. 4 in Chelsea moves closer to landmark status, Gothamist, March 13, 2023
• As Demand for Open Space Soars, New York Gets a Public Realm Czar, The New York Times, February 16, 2023
• Propose Your Favorite NYC Walk For Jane’s Walk, WNYC, All Of It, February 15, 2023
• Even Madison Square Garden Needs a Permit in New York, The New York Times, February 2, 2023
• Can Kathy Hochul Get Her Ambitious Housing Policies Passed?, Commercial Observer, January 24, 2023