For more than 200 years, street vendors have been an integral part of New York City. Their mobility and flexibility make vendors beneficial extensions to existing fixed systems during moments of crisis.

While we rarely see our water system at work — even its most visible manifestation, the Central Park reservoir, is no longer used to distribute our water supply — it remains the city’s most critical piece of civic infrastructure.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of Urban Omnibus. Cassim Shepard reflects on the evolution of the publication and looks ahead to what comes next.

Can limited profit be good business and create better housing?

In his inaugural column for Urban Omnibus, Stephen Rustow reflects on the relationship between individual pieces of architecture and our collective perception of urban landscapes in light of waning public access to the city's iconic heights, its skyscrapers.

A special Thanksgiving edition of the Roundup looks at affordable housing in Queens, new sludge ships, the future of pay phones, a plan for new industry, the beauty of water infrastructure, and turkeys on Staten Island.