Last month my partner and I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland. Named for the existing villages that were taken over by the German army to build first, a camp for Polish political prisoners, Auschwitz 1, and second, a camp for both forced labor and extermination, Auschwitz 2, or more commonly known as...
This aerial image of Long Island was built one mosaic unit at a time using the USGS Earth Explorer web page. There are 494 mosaic images required to show Long Island and the parts of New York state and Connecticut that border Long Island Sound. An aerial image of Long Island from the US Food...
This brand-new park in West Roxbury resulted from the Menino Project initiative, which “created an interface between the academic community and the people by bringing together academics with a local advisory board to work collaboratively on a plan”. Envisioning a new public use of the Gardner Street landfill was an outcome of this Project. While...
The House of Dreams, more commonly known as Highfield Hall & Gardens, features a theme-based exhibit featuring a newly commissioned 17 minute film, many new artifacts, and the Summer Salon, a recreated gilded age safe space for the female occupants of the house. It is a spectacular restoration accessible to all visitors who are engaged...
The virtue of decay When built in 1863, the tenement at 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City was considered a hygienic building with outhouses connected to the sewer and a reservoir-fed pump just for residents. But by 1935 it made more sense for the owner to evict the...