FEMA finally agrees to update flood-zone maps; Can Tavern on the Green reclaim its iconic status?
- Fashion designer Betsey Johnson has dropped the price of her Upper East Side condo to less than she originally paid for it. [NYO]
- Mayor de Blasio and FEMA announce plans to update the city’s FEMA maps after complaints that as many as one-third of homes didn’t belong in the flood zones. [ABC7]
- 10 anti-Trump works of public art across the city. [Untapped]
- After years of contention over who would take over the once-iconic Tavern on the Green (including a proposal by Donald Trump), it reopened in 2014, but still can’t find its footing. [NYP]
- Thomas Woltz, principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architecture (the firm responsible for Hudson Yards), has a fresh approach to urban parks. [Fast Co. Design]
- Michael Ford’s “hip-hop architecture” believes culture and the built environment work hand in hand. [Curbed]
