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My Sherita

She was a Brooklyn It girl before Brooklyn had It girls.

Rise and Resign

We are the product of New York City’s housing crisis and the perpetrators of the Hudson Valley’s.

Watch This Space

(For fundraisers, no doubt.)

Minor Fetish

Unidentifiable, unusable, and, alas, anerotic objects

Tree Lugger

“Is it going to thunder and lightning in there?”

Two of Them

In raw skill, Lewis Mumford rated Stanisława above Maciej.

Dark Water

Self-care, evidently, is a virtuous quest worthy of legend.

Grids on Grids

Phenomenological New York attempts to document the feeling of the city rather than its appearance.

New York State of Grind

A song about Billy Joel releasing, after a long absence, a new song.

No Gift At All

Too-simple diagrams, TED Talk–style anecdotes, and sweeping generalizations about human behavior

Notes From the Underground

Yes In My Basement Yeshiva!

Off-Key

To those for whom the Note incites a sense of youthful wonder—a feeling that if you pressed the keys, it would let out a perfectly tuned arpeggio—I ask, What’s wrong with you?

Ongoing Farewell

Ruptures in time reflecting ruptures in space

Open-Door Policy

Touching physical things is becoming a bit passé.

Serenity Now

A house is just a box with a triangle on top plus a window, a rectangle of the right size.

Table Manners

Visually intriguing, but not exactly tempting
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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