Articles

And into New York’s underground

Why can’t New York let go of The Power Broker?

The green reification of New York City’s waterfront

Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.

Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?

Keeping up appearances in brownstone Brooklyn

A visit to the Astor Place Wegmans confirms we are, now and forever, among the Etruscans
(and also stuck in the ’90s).

On the dreams, schemes, and TV screens reshaping our homes

As long as this great commuter-train parade ground remains open to the skies, the streets ringing it allow us to envision a different future.

Notes on the Gaza solidarity encampments

On the front lines of the attention liberation movement

An ode to Liberty Inn, site of unseen, carnal pleasures

Marcel Breuer’s museum on Madison opened our eyes to the sublime. Let’s not look away now.

The American Dream keeps getting smaller and smaller.

I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.