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LARB’s MacArthur Park home, a 1927 Spanish colonial revival complex known as the Granada Buildings, has a cult following.

Nobody knew why it was in the basement, but they all knew it was important.

A view of the world, from Greenwich Village

At a time when socialism was widely considered a pejorative, Jacobin would be an outspoken champion on its behalf.

“Moving furniture around is a good form of procrastination when you are in a complete panic.”

The warm, comforting glow was unmistakable.

The magazine batted down a suggestion from its architects to put bookshelf wallpaper on the wall: it would be redundant.

Getting to know City Island’s paper of record

Since I first signed up for e-flux about six years ago, the publishing platform has graced my inbox to the tune of about ten emails a day.

I first visited Seward Park on the Lower East Side in 2020, looking for a newspaper box that served as the single distribution point for a publication then much in demand among New York’s writing set: the Drunken Canal.

The network probably enjoys the building’s intimidation factor.

In its sixteen-foot-tall cellar, the presses churned out hundreds of thousands of issues a day. A gold-plated dome housing Pulitzer’s private office pierced through its cornice.

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