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Hudson Sponge. Streetscape remake in West Side Manhattan neighborhood includes stormwater-retention measures.

Alex Ulam reports for The Architect’s Newspaper. Chances are most New Yorkers don’t know where Hudson Square is located. But the launch of the first phase of a $27 million streetscaping initiative may turn relatively obscure neighborhood, bounded by the West Village, SoHo, and Tribeca, into one of the most attractive places in the city. Plans call for the formerly

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Architects Eye Abandoned North Brother Island for Autism School

Two architecture students have an ambitious plan for North Brother Island, an abandoned, overgrown patch of green in the East River — they’d like to build a school for children with autism there.   Famous for its quarantine hospital where “Typhoid Mary” was confined in 1907, North Brother Island was closed to the public in 1963 after a juvenile drug

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