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Dianna Ross Living City D.C. 14th & U comprises two blocks made up of new development, older affordable housing structures, a large District of Columbia municipal government building, a dozen restaurants and night clubs, and a historic but diminished African American middle class neighborhood. The project footprint includes the areas between 13th and 15th streets and U and V. According to Washington’s U Street: A Biography by Blair Ruble, U Street was once Read More By: Victoria Vele, Social Media and Water Research Intern As June presses on, the Living City Brooklyn Gowanus team is working tirelessly on the Community Innovation Workshop. This workshop will be taking place June 22nd and 23rd at the Gowanus Studio Space. As an introduction to the neighborhood, Living City Brooklyn Gowanus will be facilitating a two-day event – exploring topics that the community finds important to address. In the weeks approaching our first workshop, we Read More By: Vanessa Meer, Manager of Water, Energy and Environmental Services and David Krieger, Community Director What is Living City Block doing in Gowanus? Where is Gowanus anyway? The Gowanus region of Brooklyn is one of New York’s oldest settlements, originally built around the pristine Gowanus Bay and Creek watershed, and once one of New York’s great wetland oases. With the industrialization of the Brooklyn waterfront in the 1800’s the Gowanus Creek became the Read More Via Mike Cote, Planet-Profit Report – Living City Block aims to help building owners reduce energy consumption: The biggest stumbling block to making existing structures more sustainable is to justify the upfront expense. Sure, making an office more energy efficient will save money in the long run, but when budgets are tight, such efforts get put on the backburner. Living City Block aims to change that dynamic by helping building owners band together to Read More |
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