Samuel Stein

NYRA’s new column, which continues our tradition of shamelessly purloining the mastheads and editorial savior faire of long-out-of-print design publications (Architectural Forum, 1917–74.), aims to convene consequential voices in architecture, culture, technology, and politics on the issues of the day.

The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.

As New Yorkers look to the past, present, and future of social housing, we find more questions than answers.

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

Gentrification isn’t what you think it is. Not exactly.

Our built heritage should not become fossils enshrined in amber, but fertile, motley canvases on which to build anew.

The titular chase through the city and the Lincoln Tunnel ends in a New Jersey landfill.

Whether minimalist or maximalist, the designer-y vessels of luxe living are little but financial instruments.