November 4th: NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies Master Class on Preservation (12:50pm-2pm)

You preservation junkies should enjoy this one. And there's free pizza lunch involved! Win-win!

The New York Law School Center for Real Estate Studies (CRES) will be hosting another one of its Master Class Series this Thursday, November 4th from 12:50pm-2pm in W320.

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Research and Environmental Policy Opportunity!

There are 3 things you should know about New York City over the next 25 years: (1) We will be getting BIGGER; (2) our infrastructure will be getting OLDER; and (3) our environment will be AT RISK. PlaNYC 2030 is a comprehensive sustainability plan for New York that addresses each of these challenges.

The Mayor's Long Term Planning and Sustainability Office wants to update PlaNYC 2030 and has reached out to us, the ELS of NYLS, for help.

We are looking for INTERESTED STUDENTS to work with us on this project.

We are still in the planning stage, but anticipate beginning on this project in early January 2011 (with a chance of starting even earlier). Before proceeding we need to gauge student interest, so...

If you ARE INTERESTED in tackling this research project with us and want more information, please contact Dorian Iafeliece (dorian.iafeliece@law.nyls.edu) by Monday, Nov. 8th, 2010. Students interested in sustainable development, green infrastructure and environmental law are encouraged to join us.

You will get an opportunity to work with top New York City Officials on how to make NYC are greener and better city to live in!

NYS Neighborhood Preservation Coalition’s Annual Conference

NPCNYS’s Statewide Housing Conference
Revitalization: Building New York’s Future

Thursday & Friday October 28-29, 2010 New York Law School

On October 28 & 29, 2010 the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal and The Center for Real Estate Studies and Justice Action Centers of The New York Law School will be hosting the 2010 NPCNYS’s Conference on Affordable Housing and Community Development.

We will: 

• Discuss ways we are building New York’s future by revitalizing communities throughout the State. 
• Explore green building strategies, community revitalization efforts and more. 
• Discover innovations in planning, development and preservation in today’s housing industry. 
• Share ideas, tips, and approaches with fellow industry professionals and experts during our networking lunches and workshops. 
• Tackle solutions for all areas of sustainable communities, including environmental, transportation, and health.

A great chance to network with: 

• Affordable housing advocates 
• Architects and planners 
• Community development advocates 
• Lawyers 
• Legislators 
• Lending industry 
• Neighborhood groups 
• Nonprofit housing organizations 
• Public agencies 
• Researchers 
• Residential builders and developers 
• Sustainable development experts 
• Tenants/housing consumers 

A full schedule of events can be found http://www.npcnys.org/conference2010.html.

Gasland Screening and Q&A w/Director, 9/29, Central Park‏

Gasland is a movie about fracking and its actual and potential effects on drinking water, our environment and the tectonic plates. The director will be having a screening and a question and answer session after the screening on Wednesday September 29, 2010 at the Arsenal Gallery - 830 5th Avenue at East 64th St.

Be sure to get your tickets early. Not only is this a great movie, but it has also been known to cause a ton of controversy among environmentalists, the government, and non believers. Please see this interesting article in the Huffington Post about the governments reaction to Gasland moviegoers in PA: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-rose-levy/guess-what-seeing-a-movie_b_717241.htmlk

Last Atlantic Yards Holdout Settles for $3M

Daniel Goldstein was, until this morning, the spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, formed in opposition to the Atlantic Yards development project, sponsored by Forest City Ratner.  Maybe I'm partial to this issue because I live down the street, or maybe because I've read Kelo v. City of New London a few too many times and it still doesn't sit right.  Whatever the cause, the breadth of the powers of eminent domain never ceases to amaze me.  Describing this as a David versus Goliath fight seems very fitting.  Even if you don't necessarily believe that Daniel Goldstein was ever the little guy, the principles he stood for certainly were. 





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