ARMREST

Here's a candidate for the ARMREST ON BENCH centerfold playmate of the year, spotted on a recent trip to Washington D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood:

Occupy Wall Street at LentSpace

Our phones and inboxes were abuzz this morning with news that Occupy Wall Street is trying to occupy LentSpace, the temporary sculpture space on Canal and Sixth Avenue that we designed in 2009. Needless to say, as supporters of the movement, this is very exciting news!

Below find some pictures of LentSpace from 2009:

HALLOWEEN

Halloween is Interboro’s favorite holiday, hands down.

One important reason: it is the only holiday that has an entry in our forthcoming book, The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion. Halloween is, after all, an evening when kids (and adults) from different neighborhoods and socio-economic classes share the sidewalks of the city. For one evening at least, typical boundaries between neighborhoods and between public and private evaporate.

This is apparently very true in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood, where a student of mine named Jason Gottlieb lives. Thankfully, Jason took some incredible pictures of the Hampton Halloween experience, which you can see below:

Matthew Lassiter on the Silent Majority

We were happy to see The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion contributor Matthew Lassiter's op-ed in today's New York Times. Congratulations on a great piece!