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Michael Nicholas

is an urban planner and an editor at Failed Architecture. As a child, he was afraid of the high ceilings of the AMNH’s atria.

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Introducing our first guide to New York City: a print-first release you won’t find online (yet).

Amale Andraos, Andy Battle, Justin Beal, Barry Bergdoll, James Andrew Billingsley, Jake Bittle, Tei Carpenter, Phil Coldiron, Catherine Quan Damman, Nicholas Dames, Justin Davidson, Ben Davis, Marianela D’Aprile, Michael Abel, Clare Fentress, David Gissen, Paul Goldberger, Matthew Shen Goodman, Vivian Gornick, A. S. Hamrah, Zack Hatfield, Christopher Hawthorne, Wonne Ickx, Florian Idenburg, Karrie Jacobs, Cheyenne Julien, Zain Khalid, Jonathan Kirschenfeld, Alex Kitnick, Jaffer Kolb, Mark Krotov, Alexandra Lange, Jonathan Lethem, Monxo López, Peter L'Official, Dean Majd, Whitney Mallett, Ann Manov, Samuel Medina, Mariana Mogilevich, Thomas de Monchaux, Jacob Moore, P. E. Moskowitz, Michael Nicholas, Andreas Petrossiants, Gail Radford, Greta Rainbow, Enrique Ramirez, Adam Rolston, Marco Roth, Dan Rosen, Lucy Sante, Sarah Schulman, Eric Schwartau, Lytle Shaw, Samuel Stein, Benjamin Swett, Jonathan Tarleton, Leila Taylor, Aaron Timms, Frampton Tolbert, Peter Trachtenberg, Ian Volner, Elvia Wilk, James Wines, Audrey Wollen, Dan Wood, Daniel Wortel-London, Chloe Wyma, & Sharon Zukin
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Had the caffeination crisis exposed fault lines in the imperial core?

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2 beans out of 5.

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

Address a Building

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

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Seen on the subway, it’s comparatively a welcome respite from whatever direct-to-consumer hair loss company might’ve taken up the space instead.

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Pelé’s sky-high forever home conforms to a strict football theme.

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The well of NYC-branded merch is running dry. Or so we hope.

Review

Unlike the trains now operating at austerity levels of service, Moynihan Train Hall has arrived exactly on time, ready to uplift.

Dispatches

3/12/24

Off the Rails
Midtown — In place of the transit nerds I had expected to find were aspiring comics and adherents of the funny pages.
2/21/24

Giving Chase
GRAMERCY PARK — The titular chase through the city and the Lincoln Tunnel ends in a New Jersey landfill.
5/25/23

Words on the Street
SoHo — The party spirit that animated this “block party” was only slightly dampened by a didactic art installation.
10/28/22

Reporting From the Front
The issue with hospitals is not austerity budgets, asymmetrical access to care, or healthcare labor issues: it’s that they’re vertical.

Mentions

Dispatch

Beyond the frame lies something more mundane: drywall, and lots of it.

Events

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