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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How can we design better ways to live with NYC's water? www.designtrust.org/news/public-...

Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Extreme rainfall events and cloudbursts will increase in frequency. New York City's infrastructure has to transform so we can live safely with water and adapt to the new normal. Our latest project, Raincheck, aims to prepare NYC for heavy rain and flooding: www.designtrust.org/projects/rai...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're hiring a part-time Communications and Events Coordinator! Applications due next Friday: How to apply: www.designtrust.org/news/call-pa...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Calling NYC photographers! 📣 📸 Apply for our Photo Urbanism Fellowship by 9/2: www.designtrust.org/news/apply-2...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Now in its third year, our New York: City Designed program at Macaulay Honors College is creating new paths to urban planning careers. See where a few alumni are now: www.designtrust.org/news/new-yor...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

NYCHA stewards over 2,400 acres of land (almost three Central Parks!) The urban design of public housing communities has extraordinary impacts on the 1 out of 16 NYers who live there, and the city at large. More on centering participatory design at NYCHA: www.designtrust.org/news/green-s...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Are you part of a garden, park group, open streets team, waterfront group, or other public space stewardship effort? 🗺️ Take the Public Space Partners Survey and help your group be counted: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Through our Photo Urbanism program, student photographers explore "home" in NYC's public spaces: www.designtrust.org/news/student...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We’ve partnered with the @macaulayhonors.bsky.social to build new pathways to urban planning careers! Meet the 2026 New York: City Designed Internship Cohort: www.designtrust.org/news/announc...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us for a Neurodiverse City NYCxDESIGN exhibition 5/19 530pm, featuring prototypes of sensory interventions and the release of a new publication on neuroinclusive design and policy recommendations for a more accessible city! RSVP: www.designtrust.org/events/neuro...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"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

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We are so grateful for the people that make up our community and fill NYC’s public spaces with life and culture! Here are a few of our favorite places and moments from a year in public space: www.designtrust.org/news/year-pu...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

ICYMI: Find a recording of the Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park informational webinar here: www.designtrust.org/news/design-... Project leaders answer your questions about the Design Ideas Competition! Submit to the RFQ by 12/17.

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Happy Giving Tuesday! We know all your favorite nonprofits are asking for help today, especially with national funding depleted. Consider giving local to the public spaces that define life in NYC. Donations to our current projects will be matched until 2026: www.designtrust.org/support-us/i...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park" has opened a Design Ideas Competition. Three winners will be granted a $20,000 stipend to create compelling design proposals for a future memorial. Submit a RFQ by 12/17 www.designtrust.org/projects/rei...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Lower East Side celebrates a new community space proposed 10 years ago, designed by and for Lillian Wald NYCHA residents: www.designtrust.org/news/lower-e... Photo: Tameek Williams

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🌊 Last call to apply for our latest Request for Proposals: Water! Submit your public space project idea to our statement of interest form by 5pm today: forms.gle/oEPmFF9cxFNk...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A NYCHA resident-designed community space proposed in the Lower East Side in 2014 is finally opening for the Lillian Wald Houses 11/12. Join us for a ribbon-cutting: bit.ly/OPENTHEEDGE

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Questions about how to apply or if your project is a good fit? Join us for RFP webinar. RSVP for upcoming sessions at www.designtrust.org/rfp/

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How can we better design public spaces for neurodivergent New Yorkers? The Neurodiverse City is testing neuroinclusive design elements in downtown Manhattan 🔽 Learn more about the prototype a new vision for accessibility: www.designtrust.org/events/neuro...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

LOCATION UPDATE! The Neurodiverse City pilot prototype is tomorrow 530pm at Louise Nevelson Plaza Join us: www.designtrust.org/events/neuro...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Join us at the Whitney on 9/24 for a special Climate Week NYC event to launch our next open call for project ideas, Water. 💧RSVP: www.designtrust.org/events/water...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Join us for a first look at a new neuroinclusive public space prototype in Lower Manhattan: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-neurod...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Join the Design Trust for Public Space and the Waterfront Alliance for a public space potluck on 8/13 to learn more about local fights to create access to NYC's waterways across the five boroughs and preserve vulnerable coastal habitats: www.designtrust.org/events/publi...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

ICYMI: Our Photo Urbanism Exhibition on waterfront access has been extended to early September. On view at Pier 57: www.designtrust.org/events/water...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Nathan Kensinger has been documenting climate crisis impacts in New York for over twenty years. During this time, he has come to see the city’s waterways as living threads that tie together people, memory, and infrastructure: www.designtrust.org/news/desire-...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

July 16th at Pier 57: A Panel on Creating Access to NYC's Waterfronts: www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-crea...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Pride Outside! Five ways to explore LGBTQ+ history and culture in New York City’s public spaces: www.designtrust.org/news/pride-o...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Since the 70s, Ted Berger has been an impactful organizer of support for the NYC arts community—from his leadership at NYFA to his founding role at the Design Trust. Read our Q&A with Ted on DT's 30th anniversary and connecting the arts in public space: www.designtrust.org/news/ted-ber...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Meet the 2025 New York: City Designed Cohort at @macaulayhonors.bsky.social: www.designtrust.org/news/announc...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A new multimedia exhibition at Pier 57 documenting local efforts to expand access to NYC's waterfronts: www.designtrust.org/events/water...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Got your tickets yet? The Benefit for Public Space is June 12th: www.designtrust.org/events/benef...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

For Mental Health Awareness Month, a new approach to centering neurodivergent experiences in public space design: www.designtrust.org/news/rethink...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The arts belong to everyone. Our statement on NEA funding cuts and the Design Trust for Public Space's rescinded grant: www.designtrust.org/news/our-sta...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Support public space and celebrate nyc at our annual benefit! Tickets on sale now: mailchi.mp/designtrust/...

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Design Trust for Public Space @designtrustnyc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Earth Day, Then & Now: How the first Earth Day turned two of New York’s busiest streets into backdrops for environmental action—and what it means for the reclamation of public space today: www.designtrust.org/news/earth-d...

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