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• APA Event2018 Transportation Scavenger Hunt

  WHEN:
  Saturday, October 20, 2018
  1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  WHERE:
  Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront, Brooklyn

  Join fellow members of the APA’s New York Metro Chapter and members of the Young Professionals in Transportation NYC Chapter for the sixth annual Transportation Scavenger Hunt! Teams of 3-6 people will scour Brooklyn-Queens between the Queensboro Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge in search of answers to clues about the neighborhoods’ transportation history.

  This year we are partnering with Urban Archive, a location-based mobile platform that empowers New Yorkers to learn about history where it happened. The app brings together the digital collections of New York City’s museums, archives, and libraries in an easy-to-use resource built for discovery. Teams will use the app’s historic photos and our organizers’ written clues to ‘check in’ to locations throughout our hunt zone. You can also upload your own photos to show what sites look like today. Prizes will be awarded to the top three teams during a networking event at the end of the hunt.

  Details and signup here! – RSVPs required

  When: Saturday, October 20th, 2018

  1:30-3:30 (Hunt)

  3:30-5:30 (Networking Reception)

  Things to Note

  • At least one person per team must have an iPhone running iOS 10.0 or later to participate
  • You can form teams ahead of time or sign up as an individual and we will assign you a team the day of the hunt.
  • The event is free but you must RSVP and be a member of YPT or APA-NYM to participate.

  Meeting Location at 1:30 PM, North Williamsburg Ferry Landing:

  East River, just off of North 6th Street, Brooklyn NY 11249

  Ending Location at 3:30 PM, Bierocracy, 12-23 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City NY 11101

  This event is limited to 40 participants so be sure to sign up as soon as possible. You must be an active member of either YPT-NYC or APA-NYM, to participate. You must select a ticket that corresponds with your membership affiliation. Registrations will be checked against member lists. A waitlist for tickets will be maintained, and you must be a YPT or APA member to gain a spot on the waitlist.

  Sponsors: 
  • APA Event
  • New York City Section
  • Transportation

  Event Type: Other
  CM Credits:

• APA EventWalking Tour of the Bronx Hub

  WHEN:
  Saturday, October 20, 2018
  2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  HNRC is co-sponsoring walking tours with the Municipal Art Society.

  Laurence Frommer, HNRC member will lead these tours described below. Please use the links below to register.

  The tour is co-sponsored by APA NYM Chapter Housing & Neighborhood Revitalization Committee and the Municipal Art Society

  Laurence Frommer, HNRC member, will lead the tour described below. Please use the links to register. 
   
  For registration visit: Bronx Hub
  Once the “Times Square of the Bronx”,  with Laurence Frommer

  When: Saturday, October 20,  2:00-4:00 PM
  Tickets: Member $20; Non-member: $30

  The area where 149th Street intersects with Third, Willis, and Melrose Avenues was once known as “the Times Square of the Bronx” because it served as a hub for transportation, shopping, and cultural sites, including a grand 1910 opera house. Can the “Bronx Hub” be reborn in the 21st century as the center of a new “Downtown Bronx?” As we visit this crossroads of possibilities we will ask: “Why hasn’t the Hub seen as much new development as downtown Jamaica despite its greater proximity to Manhattan?” Are location and substantial infrastructure enough – or are there other important ingredients that must be present for successful redevelopment?

   

  Sponsors: 
  • APA Event
  • Committees
  • Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization

  Event Type: Conference
  CM Credits:

• APA EventEast End Conference

  WHEN:
  Thursday, October 25, 2018
  3:00 pm - 7:30 pm

  WHERE:
  Hotel Indigo East End, Riverhead NY

  When: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 3:00pm – 7:30pm (Mobile Workshop starts at 12:30)
  Where: Hotel Indigo East End, 1830 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901
  Price: $15 students, $20 municipal, APA members, non-profits, $25 Non-members, $40 at the door

  Please join the Long Island Section for an afternoon and evening of East End-focused planning topic discussions and panels. A light dinner buffet will be served.

  On October 25^th, the APA Long Island Section will hold its annual East End Planning Conference!   This year the conference will be held at the Hotel Indigo East End located at 1830 West Main Street in Riverhead.  Hotel Indigo is centrally located on the East End on Route 25 near the eastern end of the Long Island Expressway and west of downtown Riverhead.  We look forward to an afternoon and evening of discussion on timely planning topics and networking. The program will include:

  • MOBILE WORKSHOP: Sutter and Sterlington Greenworks, Cutchogue (12:30pm – 3:00pm) {2.5 CM credits requested} Sutter Greenworks and  Sterlington Greenworks generate a combined 6.2 MW of solar energy to the utility grid. The two sites contain nearly 30,000 PV modules, generating a combined 12 million kWh of electricity each year. This is enough energy to power nearly 1,000 typical homes, and offsets the equivalent of approximately 9,900 tons of CO2.  Tour will begin at Hotel Indigo at 12:30pm (participants will board coach bus and travel to/from the tour sites)

  EVENT PROGRAM:

  • Registration and Networking (3:00pm – 3:30pm) Sponsor Exhibits
  • Welcoming Remarks (3:30pm – 3:45pm)
  • Session 1 (3:45pm – 5:15pm): Innovative and Alternative On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems (I/A OWTS) Implementation in Suffolk County (1.5 CM credits requested)  The panel will provide a brief history of the creation of Suffolk County’s I/A OWTS program, the benefits of the systems, funding program, and the regulatory permitting requirements.  Representatives from the Town of Southampton and the Town of Easthampton will discuss how they administer their respective I/A OWTS mandate and funding programs.  Practical experiences with the County and town programs will be shared.
  • Dinner Buffet and Networking (5:15pm – 6:00pm) Sponsor Exhibits
  • Session 2 (6:00pm – 7:30pm): Managed Retreat in the Coastal Zone {1.5 CM credits requested} This panel discussion will include Lisa Liquori, AICP, Principal, Fine Arts & Sciences, LLC, Paul Beyer,  Director of Smart Growth. NYS Department of State (or Jaime Ethier, NYS DOS, Office of Planning, Development and Community Infrastructure or Jason Hellendrung, TetraTech), Alison Brancho, Ph.D., Director of Coastal Programs, The Nature Conservancy of Long Island, and Lena DeSantis, Managing Planner, Anchor QEA.  The panelists will describe the newly developed NYSDOS Transfer of Development Rights Initiative for Managed Retreat, the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery and other buyout programs, the National Peconic Estuary Program Climate Ready Assessment Project (underway), and Climate Resilience Adaptation projects made possible through strategic retreat.

  SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE:
  Please contact LI Section Treasurer for sponsorship opportunity!
  Gold: $500 includes 6 tickets, company profile on our website, extra‐large logo and company name displayed on a poster during the event, option to display marketing materials during the event, recognition during the presentation, and an opportunity to present for a few minutes during the event.
  Silver: $250 includes 4 tickets, company profile on our website, large logo and company name displayed on a poster during the event, with an option to display marketing materials at the table before the event.
  Bronze: $150 includes 2 tickets, logo displayed on our website, logo and company name displayed on a poster during the event.
  Individual: $75 includes 1 ticket and name displayed on poster board during the event.

  Visit the Long Island Section for more information and updates. CM credits will be requested.

  Sponsors: 
  • Long Island Section

  Event Type: Conference
  CM Credits:

• APA EventHindsight Conference : Recognizing the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act

  WHEN:
  Friday, November 2, 2018 - Saturday, November 3, 2018
  8:00 am - 7:00 pm

  WHERE:
  Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work, New York New York

  

  The American Planning Association’s New York Metro Chapter Diversity Committee invites you to attend Hindsight, a conference on urban planning through an equity lens.

  Each year, Hindsight honors a significant urban planning and equity-related milestone to not only shine light on the discriminatory history of planning and its implicit (and explicit) role in shaping today’s inequitable neighborhoods, but also to highlight planning as a means of achieving more inclusive, just, and equitable communities. In 2017, the first annual conference honored the 100th Anniversary of the supreme court decision Buchanan v. Warley (1917), in which the US Supreme Court invalidated racial zoning on 14th Amendment grounds.

  The 2018 conference honors the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act (1968), which outlawed housing discrimination for certain protected classes, requires jurisdictions to address segregation and disparate access to opportunity, and affirmatively furthers fair housing. The two day-long event will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.

  This conference was organized by the members of the Diversity Committee of the APA New York Metro Chapter. The event is sponsored by the APA New York Metro Chapter, New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYC Department of Transportation, Armand Corporation, New York University Wagner School of Public Service, Pratt Institute Graduate School for Planning and the Environment, Columbia Graduate School for Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and CUNY Hunter and the Hunter Urban Policy & Planning Program and HNTB.

  Please visit hindsightcon.com for more information and a full program, and email hindsightconference@gmail.com for inquiries.

  November 2: Hindsight Conference

  Hindsight will kick off with a keynote “fireside chat” — an intimate conversation with leaders to reflect on the history of the Fair Housing Act and its influence on urban planning in New York City.

  Keynote Speakers (.75 CM credits – credits pending):

  • Nupur Chaudhury, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation
  • Olatunde Johnson, Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  • Chanera Pierce, Policy Coordinator, Fair Housing Justice Center
  • Maria Torres-Springer, Commissioner, NYC Housing Preservation and Development
  • Moderated by Daphne Lundi, Vice-Chair of APANYM Diversity Committee

  Hindsight Sessions (1 CM credit per session – credits pending):

  • 8:00am – 8:45am – Breakfast (included in cost of conference)
  • 8:45am – 9:50am – Welcome and Keynote Speakers
  • 10:00am – 11:00am – Session 1
  • 11:10am – 12:10am – Session 2
  • 12:20pm – 1:20pm – Lunch (included in cost of conference)
  • 1:30pm – 2:30pm – Session 3
  • 2:40pm – 3:40pm – Session 4
  • 3:50pm – 4:50pm – Session 5
  • 5:00pm – 5:15pm – Closing Remarks
  • Happy Hour to follow!

  November 3: Insight Tours

  (2 CM credits per tour – credits pending)
  This year’s conference includes four walking tours on Saturday, November 3. Attendees can sign up for one tour when they arrive at the Hindsight conference on November 2 – tours are capped at 25 people, and are first come, first served. Walking tours are included in your Hindsight ticket price and descriptions will be listed in the program.

  Tickets:

  Please use the form below to register. Registration fees and donations will go toward the cost of the conference and the APA NY Metro Chapter general fund. No refunds will be issued. We do offer a sliding scale for those who may find the cost to attend the conference cost prohibitive. Please contact us at hindsightconference@gmail.com for additional information. Thank you for your purchase.

  Important note: Once you have registered, please check to see if you received a PayPal confirmation for your ticket. If you received a PayPal confirmation, you’re all set! If you did not receive a confirmation, please email hindsightconference@gmail.com to confirm your registration!

  Sponsors: 
  • APA Event
  • Diversity

  Event Type: Conference
  CM Credits:

• APA EventAPA-NYM Chapter 2018 Annual Conference

  WHEN:
  Friday, November 16, 2018
  8:00 am - 6:00 pm

  WHERE:
  Columbia University, Alfred Lerner Hall, New York NY

  Join us for this year’s premier Chapter event that brings together hundreds of regional planners, appointed and elected officials, students, and allied professionals. 

  Early Bird Registration is available until November 1, 2018. Online registration to close at 11:59 pm on November 15, 2018. Tickets are available below (APA members should log-in for member pricing)

  Registrations will be available at the door on the day of the conference pending ticket availability and venue capacity.

  Earn up to 5.5 AICP CM credits, including Ethics and Law. Breakfast and lunch included, with cocktail networking after!  Sponsorship opportunities available HERE 

  Whether your goal is to contribute expertise and help drive change in the field of planning, learn from your peers and adopt new practices, or connect with like-minded planners who are solving everyday challenges like yours, make plans now to join APA-NYM on November 16, 2018.

  Local planning topical areas had shaped the conference program, with an overall focus on infrastructure in the NY Metro area—including housing, transportation, open space, climate change resiliency and other infrastructural needs in the region.  A large number of session proposals have been submitted and top-rated sessions have been chosen.

  The list of session titles is below, stay tuned for the full program preview, coming soon!

  Plenary Session: Columbia’s Manhattanville – A Mosaic of Commitment and Community Engagement

  In 1968, efforts by Columbia University to construct a gymnasium in Morningside Park, without notice to their neighbors, resulted in community protests, a campus takeover and the ultimate defeat of the project. Fifty years later, Columbia’s vision to enhance the academic environment through a new urban campus in Manhattanville is underway.

  12 Breakout Sessions, including Ethics and Law:

  • Arrival House: an Integrated Co-Living Model for New Arrivals to NYC
  • Changing the Process for Rezoning and Planning Approvals (Law)
  • Commuter Van Networks in the Era of New Mobility
  • Development 2.0: New Tools, Processes, and Financing Models for a Revitalization of Small to Mid-Size Towns
  • Encouraging Community-Driven Hazard Mitigation Projects
  • Half Century of Planning Perspectives (Ethics)
  • The New Rochelle Model for Downtown Redevelopment
  • Rough Waters or Smooth Sailing: PPP for a Waterfront Park
  • School-Oriented Development: Creating Building Blocks for Communities and Social Equity
  • Supporting Commercial Corridors through PPP
  • Ten Years of Select Bus Service & Looking to the Future
  • Urban Cultural Policy: Making Space for Community-Owned Creative Economies

  Join us for the 2018 APA-NYM Chapter Awards During Conference Lunch

  Each year, the APA-NYM Chapter bestows recognition on individuals, organizations, and projects that exemplify the best of the metropolitan region’s planning work. The awards are meant to highlight excellence in the field and inspire planners of the next generation. Join us to learn who are this year’s awardees in the following categories:

  1. Lawrence M. Orton Award for leadership in city and regional planning.
  2. Paul Davidoff Award for leadership in housing and equal opportunity.
  3. Andrew Haswell Green Award to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions for a period of at least 15 years.
  4. Meritorious Service or Achievement Award to recognize work of unusual merit or achievement.
  5. Journalism Award (for print, broadcast, or web-based work)
  6. William H. Whyte Award for creativity and ingenuity in planning
  7. Floyd Lapp Award for distinguished service to the APA-NYM Chapter

  Early Bird Registration is available below (scroll down to RSVP section). APA members should log-in to register at discounted pricing.

  Early Bird Full Registration (APA Members) -$177.00
  Early Bird Full Registration (Non-APA Members) – $207.00
  Early Bird Full Registration (Student / Speaker) – $97.00
  Early BirdCocktail Networking Only (APA Members & Students) – $77.00
  Early Bird Cocktail Networking Only (Non-Members) -$97.00

  Late Registration starts on November 2,2018, at pricing below:

  Full Registration (APA Members) -$207.00
  Full Registration (Non-APA Members) – $247.00
  Full Registration (Student / Speaker) – $127.00
  Cocktail Networking Only (APA Members & Students) – $97.00
  Cocktail Networking Only (Non-Members) -$127.00

  Sponsors: 
  • APA Event

  Event Type: Conference
  CM Credits: