“Urban Omnibus has partnered with the NOCD Working Group to look more deeply into just a few of New York’s NOCDs. Over the next several months, we will publish four original articles that illuminate the specific constellations of social forces, strategies, organizations, and individuals that make Corona, Fort Greene, St. George, and Hunts Point emblematic, […]
Co-sponsored by the Arts + Community Change Initiative and Fourth Arts Block and hosted by The J.M. Kaplan Fund, arts leaders, policymakers, funders, and researchers met for a cross-sector roundtable discussion on Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCDs) on August 12, 2010. Highlighting exemplary practices from across New York City, this forum aimed to develop policy […]
“Where are the spaces in which we act as a community? Who governs them? Who decides on their design? Their use? And should we blur the controls, the boundaries, the authority, and the thresholds between public and private space, between streets and sidewalks?” – Michael Kimmelman – - – - – - Celebrate the release […]
Small businesses in NYC are about to get a boost. The City Council, in partnership with Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayors Steel and Holloway, and the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, will be unveiling new programs in the coming year aimed at creating a more favorable regulatory environment for small businesses and facilitating permit […]
Friday, May 11th, the City Council Arts & Small Business Committees will be holding a joint hearing, which will include testimony on Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts.We hope you can join us at 10am in the 16th Floor Committee Room at 250 Broadway, in Manhattan. It will be important to have as many people as possible there. […]
NOCD-NY’s work is informed by a host of innovative support resources, including… – - Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) University of Pennsylvania’s Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) researches types of “natural cultural districts” and provides direction to cultivate them: SIAP_Research. – - Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Local Initiatives Support Corporation […]
