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The Vanishing Icons of Metropolitan Avenue

The City Reliquary’s show celebrating Stanley Wisniewolski’s eccentric oversize styrofoam icons that once accessorized many Williamsburg storefronts is just the type of quaintly doting showcase of local obscura I’ve come to love about the Reliquary. Thanks to a neighborhood resident …

Why Grand Central Works

Vishaan Chakrabarti walks through one of the city’s favorite spaces. His reflections range from design details to regional economics to the relationship between infrastructure and density.

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New Game in the City

In San Francisco last week, the City Planning Commission—responding to neighborhood pressures—rejected an application by American Apparel to open a new store on Valencia Street in the city’s Mission District. No matter that the brand is well known for …

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