Festival of Ideas for the New City

The three-day Festival of Ideas for the New City brings together architects, urban planners and developers, activitsts, and others to imagine how New York might evolve in the next thirty years. Yesterday, the conference culminated in StreetFest, a re-imagining of the ubiquitous street fairs. We ate Moroccan bread from Hot Bread Kitchen, toured the Bowery Mission (and discussed what has and hasn't changed since On the Bowery was filmed there), drank jasmine Kombucha from Kombucha Brooklyn, visited the mobile Bushwick Art Park, gobbled a Captain Crunch bar from Hot Blondies and a grilled cheese from the Milk Truck, washed all that down with a lobster roll from the Red Hook Lobster Pound, cooled off with horchada-and-raseberry and lime paletas from La Newyorkina, participated in Drop Spots at No Longer Empty, blinked through fog at the Self-Illuminating City show, saw a lot of self-love at Michael Mut, and enjoyed ourselves immensely.