SUBWAY MANEUVERS A draft study produced by the MTA’s Transportation Research Board chronicles straphangers’ highly calculated positioning in subway cars...

The enormity of recent and current events — natural disasters and a presidential election at home, intensifying violence abroad —...

HERE COMES THE STORY OF THE HURRICANE While the national news media has moved on from the devastation wrought by...

ISAAC BEGAT RAIN Labor Day weekend: the symbolic winding-down of summer marked by last-minute vacation getaways, residents returning, tourists taking...

CUTTING RED TAPE Deputy Mayor Robert Steel announced two separate initiatives this week that will expedite municipal processes for development...

IF MAYORS RULED THE WORLD In Jihad vs McWorld, an influential and prescient article (1992) and book (1995), political theorist...

DIVIDED OVER DISTRICT LINES Several Asian-American groups in Queens have criticized the fact that the existing State Senate and Assembly...

This week in the Omnibus Roundup: Bloomberg’s plans for Wi-Fi and waste-to-energy; MyBlockNYC and Undercity team up; the DOT wants...

ZUCCOTTI POPS Jerold S. Kayden has written two opinion pieces about the spatial and legal ramifications of Occupy Wall Street’s...

PRINTABLE SOLAR PANELS Solar energy has long been touted as a solution to our unending thirst for cheap energy, but traditional panels have always been difficult and expensive to construct and install. Worse yet, they tend to be ugly. Researchers at MIT have now come up with a way to print solar cells on paper, fabric or plastic, with a process that is easy, cheap and...