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cauxcollective: Caux Collective Redirects: ‘The High Line’ New...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:43:35 -0400

Caux Collective Redirects: ‘The High Line’ New York City

In 1999, New York residents Joshua David and Robert Hammond set up a non-Profit charity group named ‘Friends of the High Line’. This charity transformed the abandoned New York Central Railroad, which runs through the lower side of Manhattan. Since 2009, this elevated platform, known as The High Line, has become a hugely successful new public space. As a promenade, beach and park hybrid, this aerial greenway has become a resounding triumph, with the urban park inspiring over £1.25bn of new economic activity along the it’s route.

If you would like to read this post in it’s entirety, featuring further analysis and links to other relevant work, please visit my post on Inspirez.

Although The High Line is definitely a beautiful and innovative project with good intentions, it has also assisted in the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood, resulting in the displacement of residents who were not able to afford the increasing rent.

When I run into someone who doesn't remember me

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:21:26 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

I’m like:

And they’re like:

the bear is so cute!

the dream.

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:38:53 -0400

the dream.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: As we celebrate Mother’s day, we also...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:16:33 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

As we celebrate Mother’s day, we also honor all the moms who can’t be with their children today because of detention and deportations: Not one more mother taken away!

You can be part of keeping one mom, Sandra Figueroa, with her daughter Katherine by signing this petition.

Hoy celebramos el día de las madres y también honramos a todas las madres que están separadas de sus hijos a causa de detención o deportación. Ni una más!

Via National Day Laborer Organizing Network

Admit it. You are waiting for someone you can't have.

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:17:55 -0400

truth.

dangerpro: Photographs: Tom HusseyThis is remarkably well done,...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:47:45 -0400

dangerpro:

Photographs: Tom Hussey

This is remarkably well done, I really like it.

These carry such an powerful message. When you see an old person you just think ‘oh, and old man or woman. Ugh, they’re so boring.’ These people are much more than what you see. They’ve had lives, they’ve done and accomplished many, many things. They’re not just some ‘old person’.

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (at Bay Ridge)

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:26:20 -0400

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (at Bay Ridge)

so cute!!

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:31:16 -0400

so cute!!

Photo

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:08:14 -0400

That smile

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:15:05 -0400

That smile

Photo

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:07:38 -0400

Missing Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi found dead - Hindustan Times

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:00:00 -0400

Missing Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi found dead - Hindustan Times:

18mr:

fuckyeahsouthasia:

Rhode Islands medical examiner on Thursday said the body found in a river on Tuesday is that of Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student missing for more than a month.

Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick said the body was identified through a forensic dental exam. The cause of death has not been determined yet however.
Tripathi, a 22-year-old philosophy student, was last seen on March 16. The body was found in Providence River behind the Wyndham Garden Providence Hotel at around 6 p.m.

The coach of Brown’s rowing team, which practices in that area, saw the body floating in the water. The police waited for medical examiner to make the final determination.

The family said in a statement on “Help us find Sunil Tripathi”, a Facebook page they had set up to help the search, they felt “indescribable grief” and were grateful for all-around support.

Tripathi became the became the target of intense internet speculation last week if he was Suspect No 2 wanted for the Boston marathon bombings.

Many thought it was him from the visuals released by the FBI. The Facebook page set up by his family to help in the search was hit by a storm of nasty hate messages.

“It was outrageous, what they had to say,” Sunil’s father Akhil Tripathi told Hindustan Times. Reddit, a site that allows users to post news, apologized to the family for its role in it.

The Tripathis are from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Akhil Tripathi, an engineering graduate from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, came to the US in 1968.

It is an irreparable loss for the family. May his soul rest in peace. :(

so sad. so so so so sad.

This hits really close to home.

Even though we were both in the same year in the same school, I never knew who he was throughout those four years in college. It’s very unfortunate and enraging that users on social media website Reddit misidentified him as being involved in the Boston Marathon attacks, causing even more unnecessary pain for his family members.

I offer my best wishes and condolences to Sunny’s family in coping with this unfortunate tragedy.

RIP Sunny.

This guy is gorgeous, and he sings too. Ross...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:38:00 -0400

This guy is gorgeous, and he sings too.

Ross Smith
https://live.ae.com/#/entries/674

rockin that denim vest and those hipster frames

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:20:17 -0400

rockin that denim vest and those hipster frames

Inequality and New York's Subway

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:28:46 -0400

Inequality and New York's Subway:

New York City has a problem with income inequality. And it’s getting worse—the top of the spectrum is gaining and the bottom is losing. Along individual subway lines, earnings range from poverty to considerable wealth. The interactive infographic here charts these shifts, using data on median household income, from the U.S. Census Bureau, for census tracts with subway stations.

fascinasians: ctchrss: susurrations: ladybrun: Rachel Rostad...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:09:14 -0400

fascinasians:

ctchrss:

susurrations:

ladybrun:

Rachel Rostad - “To JK Rowling, from Cho Chang”
this performance deserves to be experienced in whole (rather than gifs)

This was performed at Barnard just a week ago? I wish I could have been there to hear this. The part that goes, “I wasn’t sure if I was sad, but I cried anyway / Girls like me are supposed to cry over boys who look like him / I’ve seen all the movies, I’ve read all the books / We were just following the plot.”

Oh, and Cho and Chang are both Chinese and Korean surnames, not just Korean!

unff feels

Actual tears.

Bumped into YouTube blogger Hank Chen at 34th St Uniqlo today!!

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:05:21 -0400

Bumped into YouTube blogger Hank Chen at 34th St Uniqlo today!!

Indoor bamboo forest (at Ann and Robert H. Lurie...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:54:40 -0400

Indoor bamboo forest (at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Of Chicago)

momentsoflucidity replied to your photo: Elephant seat at the children’s hospital of… You...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:51:00 -0400

momentsoflucidity replied to your photo: Elephant seat at the children’s hospital of…

You were there? I interviewed there and did not find this chair. I did, however, find the firetruck as well as the whale statues. :-P

These cute chairs along with the indoor bamboo garden (which I will post later!) were on the 11th floor. I remember seeing the whale statues and firetrucks too!

Did you get to see the lego model of the hospital?

Elephant seat at the children’s hospital of Chicago. (at...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:49:58 -0400

Elephant seat at the children’s hospital of Chicago. (at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Of Chicago)