2022-2023

Current sanitation infrastructure conditions in Manhattan Community Districts 6 and 8 have negative impacts on service delivery, equity and the environment. Our studio was tasked by the Department of Sanitation to site a sanitation garage in CD6 and 8. While DSNY’s 2015 Brookdale Garage proposal may have failed to urge stakeholders to support physical infrastructure [...]

Mount Vernon and New Rochelle are similarly sized, first-ring suburbs of the New York City metropolitan area, with comparable challenges, land use patterns, and histories. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends in remote work, declines in transit use and increases in e-commerce. These trends upended existing relationships between work and home life, transportation patterns, logistics, [...]