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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.

If there’s a correct path through American Museum of Natural History, it’s totally elusive.

On New York’s changing bath culture

Food halls have spread far and wide, deflavorizing neighborhoods every step of the way.

Armory buildings are everywhere in this city. Should they be?

War, religion, and eternity at Calatrava’s new World Trade Center church.

Neglected for decades, the area around Citi Field is poised for major redevelopment. What changed?

A union sympathizer turned strike veteran walks the picket line.

Rising sea levels and new weather phenomena portend an uncertain future for New York City’s Superfund sites.

You, too, could own a piece of the marketplace of ideas.

I could describe The Hub for you, but what’s the point? You already know what it looks like.

As if the concept of “justice” alone weren’t complicated enough, adding spatial to it moves things into labyrinthine territory.

In Unsupervised, everything comes to you from the giant LED screen and aiming straight for your eyeballs. Call it blunt force psychedelia.

It is the poet, of all people, who exposes the narratives that architects, critics, and institutions use to justify destruction.

The new R211 subway cars represent a high-tech distraction from the system’s deeper woes.

Julie Becker spent her life in Los Angeles. She ended it there too.

On the work of wily Italian designer Gaetano Pesce

New York’s foremost memoirist-crank blames the “normals”—influencers, neo-yuppies, consumers with bland taste—for the city’s decline.

It would be tempting to lump CLT in with the “post-digital” tendency in architecture. But that would be wrong.

Unlike the city’s current modes of participatory planning, a recent City College exhibition seemed genuinely concerned with realizing the desires of residents.

Manfredo Tafuri’s first book—a study on Japanese modern architecture—offers a picture of a brilliant historian as a young critic.

Like many disaster stories, the story of the Titanic continues to compel us because it contains so many traces of human choices and fallibility.