The IPA will kick off the 2020 Fall Residency, 'To Be or Not To BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision' with a panel discussion moderated by NY Times Architecture Critic, Michael Kimmelman, on September 23rd from 6-8PM.

This panel will provide the context and history of the BQE while grappling with the question: What opportunities and challenges would be created by the removal of the BQE?

Panelists include Monxo Lopez, environmental justice and anti-displacement activist and Mellon Foundation fellow at the Museum of the CIty of New York, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director of  UPROSE, Michael King, Founder, Traffic Calmer, and Jeffrey Shumaker, Director of Urban Planning, Bjarke Ingels Group.

This is the first of five public panels for the IPA Fall Residency. This Fall, the IPA challenges Fellows to research and envision what might replace the BQE along a portion of this anachronistic piece of Moses infrastructure, engaging community stakeholders through which their chosen BQE portion passes.

Fourteen Fellows in five teams are working on proposals related to transportation and neighborhood access to public space, affordable housing, and the effects of development on communities. 

Don't miss this exciting discussion which will be held as a Zoom Webinar.

Save the dates for upcoming presentations from the 2020 IPA Fellows:

Oct. 7th / Oct. 21st / Nov. 4th / Nov. 18th

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