New York City

Louisville – New York Public Art Connection

While wandering around Harlem a couple months ago, I noticed a strangely familiar statue perched above a door on the beautiful Gothic campus of...

Big Box Living In The City

Big Box Stores are usually associated more with suburban strip malls and auto-dominated sprawl than dense city living. That doesn't have to be the...

When The City Street Was Still Alive

These clips are from a 1948 film appropriately titled In The Street. Filmed by James Agee, Helen Levitt, and Janice Loeb, the film documents...

How We Live In Our Small Urban Spaces

"It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished."—William H. Whyte Ever...

Highway Transformed: Hudson River Park

Once home to a notorious elevated highway, Manhattan's west side is now dominated by a linear park filled with bikers, joggers, and strollers. The...

Letters From New York: Introduction

While Broken Sidewalk is about Louisville neighborhoods and the city we all love, I want to include a few observations and experiences I have...

Street Renaming Simplified

It seems no topic is small enough to cause a fuss, including the simple idea of commemorating a local leader. The latest issue at...

Video: Do You Know How To Lock Up Your Bike?

Here's an interesting video from Streetfilms with bike mechanics Hal Ruzal and Kerri Martin as they walk around the streets of New York City grading...

Chrysler Building Slaughters The Aegon Center

It's official, the results are in: the Broken Sidewalk readership hands down prefers New York's Chrysler Building to our home grown Aegon Center. Over...