Lily Puckett
Articles
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It’s awfully nice to be reminded that we New Yorkers come from much more than Sweetgreen and Blue Bottle.
Review
A tale where there’s never enough room, where nothing but the essential lasts, where there aren’t morals so much as morality.
Wrecking Ball
Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?
Shortcut
Ours is a world where everything but us gets to go up in flames.
Dispatches
5/1
Movement Study
Hamilton Heights —
Maybe this is why the encampment I saw being built at City College felt so sturdy, less an act of defiance than an acknowledgement of its necessity.
1/18
Wanted: Good Ideas
LAGUARDIA PLACE —
“I like to think of [pools] like the pub, or the park, just a place to meet up,” he said, evoking the kinship of small-town life.
12/4/23
Place to Be
Chelsea —
Roaming packs of alligators
10/10/23
Deco Devotee
Chelsea —
“This is all I do,” she told me after the tour. “I have no husband, I have no cat, I have posters.”
8/13/23
Open Houses
EAST HAMPTONS —
This is the problem with taking things from the past and trying to live seamlessly in them: many people simply don’t want to. Instead, they jam together a renovation of ideas you theoretically agree with but practically reject.
6/30/23
It’s Gonna Be Cool
Long Island City —
Plus Pool, an imaginary bobbing lido in the East River, is a project for people who want to live somewhere else entirely.
6/1/23
Wrap It Up
Morningside Heights —
“I would wrap everything in fabric if I could.”