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Where’s the Grease?

A latter-day luncheonette that looks askance at luncheon meat

Ahab-stractions

Increasingly détraqué geometries

Meet Me in the Powder Room

While the man in the C-suite drinks himself into a stupor, elsewhere a woman is up to no good.

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 ’Em

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
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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