Jane's Row

Jane’s Row

Village Community Boathouse participated in Municipal Arts Society’s Jane Jacobs walk program with a twist: The row included a conversation about Jane Jacobs and the history of our waterfront led by VCB board member Phil Yee.

Hosted by the Municipal Art Society (MAS) since 2011, Jane’s Walk NYC is named after Jane Jacobs, opponent of powerful city planner Robert Moses and author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” the 1961 critique of 1950s urban planning policy. Jane's Walk was founded in Toronto in 2006 by a group of Jane Jacobs' friends and colleagues as a way to honor her life and activate her ideas. In the spirit of Jacobs, the free walks, and rows are meant to spark conversations about planning, history, preservation, development, and urban life.