Bottom-Up Planning in the Real Estate Capital of the World?

Forty Eight Wall Street, 48 Wall Street (between William and Hanover Streets) [map] Tuesday, April 28, 6:30PM Speaker: Tom Angotti Reservations available online starting April 20 Urban planner Tom Angotti speaks about histories of grassroots community urban planning in New York designed to sustain neighborhoods. A landmarked building, Forty Eight Wall Street’s Neo-Georgian cupola features a giant Federalist eagle perched on its spire. -- Access Restricted is a free nomadic lecture series that opens rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Lower Manhattan to the general public. Once inside these unique interiors, the audience is treated to a site-specific lecture and discussion addressing a range of topics revolving around issues of architectural history and preservation, social justice, and urban development. The aim of these interpretive events is to foster new perspectives by encouraging the public to explore locales and situations through the various lenses of architecture and planning, art, history, sociology, political science and law.