Thursday, May 30 El Museo del Barrio and El Barrio community sites 11:00am – 7:00pm REGISTER HERE! AND REGISTER HERE BY NOON TUESDAY TO ATTEND A COMMUNITY LUNCH! NOCD-NY invites you to join us for a citywide forum to develop a vision for NYC that is grounded in the cultural vitality and social networks that […]

In the coming months, Urban Omnibus will visit St. George on Staten Island, and the Bronx’s Hunts Point. Here, in the second article of the series, Mercedes Kraus explores the cultural history of Fort Greene, Brooklyn http://urbanomnibus.net/2013/04/naturally-occurring-cultural-districts-fort-greene-brooklyn/ Photo: Cumbe Grand Opening Dance Class | Photo by Josh Gilbert, courtesy of Cumbe Dance

. . . . . . Check out our Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space case study report series, organized by realms of space.  The reports combine discussion points from last summer’s Spacing Out forum with local and national case examples.  Click for reports on adaptive reuse and publicly owned facilities. In the next few […]

To gain traction in its first year, NOCD-NY’s practice committee is focusing on the idea of space.  The committee will… Collect and share case studies of arts and cultural uses of vacant and/or underutilized space Distill learning lessons and best practices from these case studies Develop recommendations that can make these uses more feasible, accessible, […]