DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm 
Nature and the Design of the Grid

Two key factors set the stage for the Commissioners' Plan of 1811: the explosive growth of the city and the conviction that New York was destined for greatness. While the grid has performed admirably within the context of human expansion and movement, it has also posed challenges when it comes to the city's natural environment. 

Bill Browning, founder of Terrapin Bright Green, as he moderates a panel with Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and author of Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City; Kate Orff, Partner at SCAPE Studios Landscape Architects; and Carl Weisbrod, Clinical Professor and Academic Chair of Global Development at NYU, examining the environmental implications of the grid, as well as its possibilities for the future.

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the MCNY member's half-price cost of $6 when you contact 917.492.3395 or register online (enter promotion code DART419). If you phone, just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email. For more information: 917.492.3395

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 which has been extended through July 15^th. Read DART’s December 2011 review of The Greatest Grid. 

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street. By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street.

Above: (left) © Markley Boyer, the Mannahatta Project, Wildlife Conservation Society; (right) © Yanan Arthus-Bertrand, CORBIS. Composite image by Markley Boyer.

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