Meet our Water RFP winners: www.designtrust.org/news/water-d...

Our Annual Benefit for Public Space brings together city leaders, the design community, and local advocates to support public space.

This year, we're celebrating affordable housing design that connects communities and brings neighborhoods to life. Join us: www.designtrust.org/events/benef...

"The fence is gone, in its place is something harder to quantify, but easier to feel; a shared space, illuminated with care."

Our Opening the Edge project featured in Designing Lighting, with Lighting Fellow Kate Sweater Hickcox: issuu.com/designinglig...

Meet the Design Teams Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park at Lehman College on 4/21: www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...

Meet the young photographers exploring "Home Without Boundaries" in our Photo Urbanism Fellowship: www.designtrust.org/news/photo-u...

26 Ideas for NYC's water:
www.designtrust.org/news/26-idea...

Opinion: Mayor Mamdani, Make it Easier for New Yorkers to Use Public Spaces - City Limits "The Mamdani administration has an historic opportunity to shift how we value and manage our shared spaces. Now is the time to launch a public realm agenda for the city that centers events, programmin...

"A maze of red-tape—onerous permitting and insurance requirements, outdated technology platforms, unclear application processes—is limiting the full expression of our public life."

Our Executive Director Matthew Clarke's op-ed in City Limits:
citylimits.org/opinion-mayo...

Image: Mimi Ditkoff | Community is Accountability (Photo by King Merv Studios, Courtesy of Brooklyn Paper)

For Women’s History Month, take virtual tour with us to look at public art honoring women who have shaped their own communities and our country’s history: www.designtrust.org/news/designe...

Safer Spaces - Urban Omnibus With the new mayor promising to deliver “community safety,” one well-established city program charts a path through new public spaces and long-needed repairs at the city’s most under-resourced NYCHA d...

What if we’ve been looking for safety in all the wrong places?

We love to see a shoutout of our Green Space Connections work with Public Housing Community Fund + Center for Justice Innovation in an important piece by Tamara Greenfield & Layman Lee: urbanomnibus.net/2026/03/safe...

With the integration of policy, innovative programming, and architectural design, the city’s existing public pools might be reimagined as sites for social gathering, education, health, and year-round swimming:

www.designtrust.org/news/city-cu...

In 2014, Lower East Side artist Jane Greengold floated an idea to her neighbors: What if we took down the fence?

Opening the Edge in Architect's Newspaper: www.archpaper.com/2026/03/davi...

Getting NYC Event Permits Is a Mess. They Want City Hall to Cut the Red Tape. Thousands of groups put on events in public space every year, but navigating the system system is “a maze,” said one East Harlem organizer.

Today in @thecity.nyc: We've released a new report aimed at making it easier for New Yorkers to use their public spaces.

Untaped: Removing Barriers for Public Space Programming
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/10/p...

Save the Date: Our annual Benefit for Public Space will be 6/11! We’re returning to the New York Public Library Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library rooftop to celebrate NYC and support public space projects!

Join us: www.designtrust.org/events/benef...

Reviving the legacy of enslaved Africans in Van Cortlandt Park - The Riverdale Press On a brisk February afternoon, the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance invited visitors to tour Van Cortlandt Park’s Enslaved African Burial Ground, drawing renewed attention to a wooded site marked only …

“Most people come to the place and really don’t realize that it has any history whatsoever.”

Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground with Van Cortlandt Park Alliance in the @riverdalepress.bsky.social: www.riverdalepress.com/stories/revi...

"A city born from the tides is drowning from the clouds." This week for our public space blog water series, City Currents, Tyler Taba of the Waterfront Alliance writes on redesigning "everything" to flood: lnkd.in/euCzrHsp

Proposed Daylighting of Flushing Creek from Flushing Meadows Corona Park Resilience Study, Photo Credit: Waterfront Alliance, SCAPE, AKRF.

"A city born from the tides is drowning from the clouds." This week for our public space blog water series, City Currents, Tyler Taba of the Waterfront Alliance writes on redesigning "everything" to flood: lnkd.in/euCzrHsp

Latest on the public space blog: www.designtrust.org/news/black-p...

In the latest for City Currents, a new weekly series on the public space blog, exploring the contours of water and public life, the creator of the play Flood Sensor Aunty, Sabina Sethi Unni shines a stage light on creative approaches to community organizing: www.designtrust.org/news/city-cu...

Reimagining Memorial Spaces: A Black History Month Conversation - Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Join Van Cortlandt Park Alliance for a live, virtual conversation with designers Immanuel Oni and Jeremiah Olayinka Ojo exploring the project, Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground in Van Cor...

Join VCPA for a live, virtual convo with designers Immanuel Oni & Jeremiah Ojo exploring Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground in Van Cortlandt Park and the importance of working thoughtfully with memorial spaces on Monday, February 23 at 6:30pm:

vancortlandt.org/event/reimag...

In the latest for our blog series on water stories from around the five boroughs, City Currents, Leslie Davol of Street Lab shares the nonprofit's approach to using open streets for communal cooldown (and tons of outdoor joy!)

⛲ Read here: www.designtrust.org/news/water-c...

Thank you, Ted ❤️ We will continue to honor your vision for a city that celebrates and makes the arts accessible for all.

The Design Trust for Public Space community is deeply saddened by the passing of Ted Berger, a board member since our founding, and a champion for arts & culture in New York City. A few words about his incredible impact on the five boroughs: www.designtrust.org/news/remembe...

Our first guest essay in the series comes from the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, leveraging community knowledge on living with flooding into citywide climate action: www.designtrust.org/news/bridgin...

We've launched a new weekly series exploring the contours of water and public life on the public space blog: City Currents!

www.designtrust.org/news/city-cu...

The latest in our Reimagining blog series explores efforts to preserve what is left of Little Syria, a once vibrant neighborhood for Arab immigrant communities: www.designtrust.org/news/fightin...

Join @ny4p.bsky.social @cmjuliewon.bsky.social on Sat., Jan 10 for an LIC Walk & Talk on the future of parks and open space. 

We will discuss key open space needs, recent wins, and opportunities for a stronger, more connected parks system. Details + RSVP: bit.ly/licwalkandtalk

The latest in our Reimagining blog series explores efforts to preserve what is left of Little Syria, a once vibrant neighborhood for Arab immigrant communities: www.designtrust.org/news/fightin...

Before Lincoln Center, there was San Juan Hill. Our latest public space blog series explores sites of lost and found memory: www.designtrust.org/news/lincoln...