#49
- Contributors
- Julian Tepper, Max Feigelson, Mark Krotov, Miles Grant, Charlie Dulik, Adam Rolston, Huw Lemmey, Emmett Zeifman, Owen Hatherley, Alice Phillips Swistel, Matthew Specktor, Justin Beal, Thomas de Monchaux, Isaac Engelberg, Zack Hatfield, Daniel Wortel-London, Olivia Gieger, Hallie Ayres, Kim Hew-Low, Eric Schwartau, Kay Wisnowski, Niuniu Zhao, Aaron Timms, Nick Irvin, Jackson Arn, Phil Coldiron, Michael Nicholas, Marco Roth, Enrique Ramirez, Moze Halperin, Marianela D’Aprile, Nick Murray, James Andrew Billingsley, Anna Ballan, Nicolas Kemper, & Ian Volner
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Chloe Wyma
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Associate Publishers
- Nicholas Raap & Lari Rutschmann
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C. Suchara
- Illustrator
- Suerynn Lee
- Operations
- Michael Piantini
- Contributing Editors
- Marianela D’Aprile & Eric Schwartau
- Proofreader
- Don Armstrong
- Editorial Fellows
- Olivia Oldham & Kim Hew-Low
- Coeditor
- Nick Murray
Articles
These objects preserve the social-democratic spirit that remained flat-packed, stateside, until Mamdani finally found an Allen wrench.
Reviews
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin and William C. McKeown (ed.) University of Toronto Press, 1,040 pp., $150.
Ruskin was writing, between the lines, against Victorian England’s industrial society, to save his homeland from a revolution he knew it deserved.
Rosario Candela and the New York Apartment: 1927–37 by David Netto, Paul Pennoyer, and Paul Goldberger. Rizzoli, 304 pp., $45.
Nothing so good will be built again in New York City, not for the billionaires nor anybody else.
Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods by Jennifer Kabat. Milkweed Editions, 360 pp., $20.
Like Shakespeare’s Prospero—who ultimately abjures his “rough magic” and drowns his book of spells—Kabat implies that addressing climate crisis requires not merely technological innovation but philosophical reorientation.
Lower East Side Yearbook: A Living Archive, curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, is on view at Abrons Arts Center through January 6, 2026.
The Settlement’s communitarian, social-reformist spirit embedded itself in the Lower East Side, including in its architecture.
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly. Atria/One Signal Publishers, 288 pp., $29.
I’m not sure how I feel about a team many times the size of the New York Philharmonic fine-tuning a formula of Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson hits with which to drip-feed me throughout the day. Actually, I take that back. I hate it.
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park was closed in the spring of 2023, just prior to its demolition and wholesale reconstruction. Reopened this past August, the park features a landscape by AECOM and a pavilion by Thomas Phifer and Partners.
New York’s coastline is homogenizing as it hardens and greens.
