urban place

If you’re in an urban place — how are we partnering with those agencies that are doing good work and that can help those students?

By general agreement, the best thing in New York City, the most urban place in the United States, is Olmsted’s big lawn.

Barrett said the hawk’s fame “shows that even in an intensely urban place like Manhattan, there are many people who have a fondness for wildlife and feel a connection to it.”

“It’s going to create a place that is pedestrian friendly … an urban place rather than just a collection of buildings,” Cort said.

County and private development officials say they hope the investment, along with other efforts to boost housing and transit, will spur the kind of growth needed to create a vibrant urban place in an area now mostly known as a transportation hub.