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The green reification of New York City’s waterfront

The world is rapidly urbanizing, and the theater of battle is urbanizing with it.

Why this artist? Why now?

Address A Building

Maligned and condemned, the Port Authority Bus Terminal will be missed after it’s gone.

Wrecking Ball

The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.

Jonathan Lethem’s historical autofiction from below

What exactly is the “paradise Bronx” about which Frazier waxes poetic?

  • Yes, Chef, curated by Zoe Lukov, and its affiliated restaurant concept, Black Caesar, are open at Water Street Projects through December 15.

Yes, Chef. Hail Caesar. Eat me. Incubate me.

  • The New York Film Festival ran from September 27 to October 14 at Lincoln Center and additional venues throughout the city.

Phillips’s musical sequel to his haggardly wrought early Scorsese pastiche more aptly encompasses the existential malaise of NYFF62 than the proudest members of its main slate.

Skyline!

Skyline

Laguardia Place — Why do people still like this ugly stuff?
SoHo — Don’t stop the presses.
East Village — I couldn’t tell what was real and what was fakity-fake-FAKE.
St. George — I came with two goals: eat some locally grown free samples and cheer the coronation of the 2024 Fig King.