Reinvent Payphones: Mayor Bloomberg Launches Challenge Calling for Designers to Rethink NYC’s Public Phones

Reinvent Payphones: Mayor Bloomberg Launches Challenge Calling for Designers to Rethink NYC’s Public Phones

Photo © Susan NYC

NYC payphones may have seemed obsolete for the past ten years or so but Hurricane Sandy showed us that they still play a very important role in times of disaster (reports say that usage of public phones increased during and after the

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PHOTOS: Brooklynites Show Off Beautiful Gardens for the 2012 Greenest Block in Brooklyn Competition

PHOTOS: Brooklynites Show Off Beautiful Gardens for the 2012 Greenest Block in Brooklyn Competition

Which Brooklyn block do you think is the greenest? From Flatbush to Bed-Stuy to Greenpoint, 173 different streets across the borough are currently competing in the 18th Annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, but they're all so beautifully manicured that it's going to be a really tough call. Luckily, we were able to obtain some photos of the most impressive stoops, garden plots and frontyards in the competition, so click through our gallery and tell us in comments which block you think is Brooklyn's greenest.

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NYC’s First Sustainable Hackathon Creates Green Apps for the City

NYC’s First Sustainable Hackathon Creates Green Apps for the City

Are digital apps the secret to a greener New York City? Reinvent Green, the city’s first sustainability hackathon took place last week at NYU-Poly in Downtown Brooklyn, and demonstrated the impact tech talent can make on the city’s mission to go green. Hosted by NYC Digital and the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, which is responsible for implementing PlaNYC, the event called on hundreds of developers and designers to build digital tools and applications with just a 30-hour window. Read on to learn more about some of the innovative apps that were born out of this groundbreaking creative exercise.

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Tom Dixon’s London Underground for NY Design Week

Tom Dixon’s London Underground for NY Design Week

Tom Dixon’s London Underground has arrived at New York Design Week and his design team has transformed the secret basement theatre on Bleecker Street with a Luminosity show, a subterranean broadcasting station from Surface magazine, a pop-up shop from Fab.com

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Emerging New York Architects Competition Unveils the Winning Designs for the Harlem Edge Waterfront

Emerging New York Architects Competition Unveils the Winning Designs for the Harlem Edge Waterfront

The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition that tasked entrants to redesign of a slice of Upper Manhattan's disused waterfront has chosen four winning designs. The Sym’bio’pia, Hudson Exchange, Harlem Harvest, and Stairway to Harlem projects were chosen as the contest's best, each nabbing a cash prize. The winning prize, Sym’bio’pia, was designed by Ting Chin and Yan Wang of Linearscape Architecture. The proposal integrates a series of vertical hydroponic farms with the waterfront community.

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12 x 12 Exhibition Announces Winning Designers to Create Furniture from Demolished NYC Buildings

12 x 12 Exhibition Announces Winning Designers to Create Furniture from Demolished NYC Buildings

Sawkill Lumber has just announced the 12 designers who have been selected to participate in the first ever 12 x 12 design exhibition this spring. Debuting at Design Week in May this year, the exhibition will feature twelve unique pieces of furniture created

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12×12 Design Competition Calls for Entrants to Upcycle Historic NYC Buildings Into Contemporary Furniture

12×12 Design Competition Calls for Entrants to Upcycle Historic NYC Buildings Into Contemporary Furniture

Calling all New York furniture designers! Third Ward, Build it Green NYC and Sawkill Lumber Company have launched the 12 x 12 design contest, a unique opportunity to repurpose a piece of New York’s past. Twelve lucky designers will be chosen to recycle

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Registration for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Contest for Freshkills Park Opens

Registration for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Contest for Freshkills Park Opens

Registration for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition that will take place at Freshkills Park is now open! In its partnership with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation, the competition will seek one exciting design for

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GIVEAWAY: Win a One Year Zipcar Membership!

GIVEAWAY: Win a One Year Zipcar Membership!

Thanks to our massive 24 hour public transportation system, it’s easy to live a car free life in New York City — and many of your InhabitatNYC editors and writers do just that. But sometimes, like when we want to escape the city or purchase a new couch or

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Re-Imagine a Slice of NYC Waterfront for The Harlem Edge Cultivating Connections Competition

Re-Imagine a Slice of NYC Waterfront for The Harlem Edge Cultivating Connections Competition

Tonight kicks off the start of this year’s The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition, with a launch party at the Center for Architecture. Sponsored by the Emerging New York Architects Committee, the fifth biennial ideas competition asks entrants to propose ideas to redevelop the abandoned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station on 135 Street at the Hudson River.

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GreenHomeNYC’s Eco Furniture Design Contest Ends Monday – Enter Now!

GreenHomeNYC’s Eco Furniture Design Contest Ends Monday – Enter Now!

Here at Inhabitat, we are well aware of the budding designers in New York City — after all the Big Apple in home to some the best design schools and design shows around. So what better way to show your design chops than by entering GreenHomeNYC’s Green Design

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BBox Radio is a Shipping Container Radio Station in Brooklyn’s Dekalb Market

BBox Radio is a Shipping Container Radio Station in Brooklyn’s Dekalb Market

The creators of BBox Radio

Back in March, we reported that a sustainable shipping container market will be popping up in Downtown Brooklyn this summer. Now that summer is here, the temporary market is underway and vendors are beginning to plan out their

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Last Chance to Win an iPad 2 and Eco-iPad Case from Treegloo!

Last Chance to Win an iPad 2 and Eco-iPad Case from Treegloo!

To celebrate the official launch of InhabitatNYC, we’re giving one lucky reader an iPad 2 and an awesome eco-friendly iPad case from Treegloo!

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