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Pratt and Partners Awarded $1.9M in Federal Funds for Affordable Small Home Sustainability

The Pratt Center for Community Development and community partners Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, IMPACCT Brooklyn, and Kinetic Communities Consulting have been selected to receive $1,942,500 for an Affordable Small Home Sustainability (ASHS) Initiative as part of the federal government…

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Made in NYC Week Reimagines the Future of Local Manufacturing

At markets across the five boroughs, Made in NYC Week showcased the vitality of local manufacturing and the creativity of the people behind it. After a virtual edition in 2020, the 2021 return of the annual week involved a…

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Pratt Women Organizing for Change: Elena Conte of the Pratt Center

Elena Conte, senior fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development, has worked for over two decades in community-based planning on projects to improve housing, the environment, and economic opportunities for low-income New Yorkers. In celebration of Women’s…

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How Pratt Center’s Made in NYC Is Helping Local Businesses Survive COVID-19

Frontline workers at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx with hand sanitizer donated by Made in NYC member MÔTÔ Spirits New York’s small businesses have been challenged by the radically changed environment of COVID-19. Social distancing measures, shutdowns, financial losses,…

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Black Lives Matter Pratt 2020 Teach-In Examines “In/Visibility” in a Day of Dialogue

Artist Shaun Leonardo opening the Black Lives Matter Pratt Teach-In with his talk “I am an Invisible Man” (courtesy Black Lives Matter Pratt) Pratt Visual Arts Fellow Shaun Leonardo opened the…

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Brooklyn Historical Society Opens Ronald Shiffman Collection on the Pratt Center

The diversity of the long Pratt Institute career of Ronald Shiffman, BS Architecture ’61, MS City and Regional Planning ’66, is reflected in the 75 linear feet of material in the new Ronald Shiffman collection…

City and Regional Planning

Pratt Center Report Makes the Case for Bus Rapid Transit in New York City

“Bus” and “rapid” are not the first words that come to mind when New Yorkers think about getting around the city, particularly in areas of the outer boroughs that are significantly underserved by public transportation—but that may be about…

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Wall Street Journal Cites Pratt Center Report on The Brooklyn Navy Yard

In an article on the Brooklyn Navy Yard, The Wall Street Journal highlighted a recent report issued by the Pratt Center for Community Development, which identified successful strategies for economic development used in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that…

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Pratt Center Report Recognizes Brooklyn Navy Yard as Model for Economic Development

A report issued today by the Pratt Center for Community Development, a research and advocacy arm at Pratt Institute, identified successful strategies implemented at New York City’s Brooklyn Navy Yard to be used as a model for economic development…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Planning Professor Ron Shiffman Receives Two Prestigious National Honors

Ron Shiffman, professor, Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture, and founder, Pratt Center for Community Development, was recently recognized with two national honors: the Rockefeller Foundation's 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership and the American Planning Association's 2013…