We are celebrating 15 years — and counting — of stories that are deeply researched and deeply felt, that build a historical record of what the city has been.
Reconsidering one of New York City’s most contested infrastructures through new photography and oral histories that focus on the experiences of the people and places touched by it, our exhibition is on view at Bronx River Art Center from September 26 through November 8.
A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.
In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.
Plants in a Staten Island garden — and the communities that sustain them — bloom in genders beyond binaries.
Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.
A new Crown Heights bookshop is a cipher for conflicting feelings of ambivalence, betrayal, and belonging
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, secure home in the city.
In the weekly Jericho Walk, New Sanctuary Coalition and allies confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.
Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.
Join the New City Critics on June 17 for a publication launch and conversation.
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.
The new Telfar store is an event space. The event is we're alive and we did this shit.
Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?
An artist chronicles her daily life through the lens of property. From homes to household goods, are we condemned to be defined by what we own?
A newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.
New stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
Beloved for their innocence and feared as vectors of disease, pigeons are a divisive and constant presence in New York City. A monumental statue atop the High Line urges us to consider how our feral friends (or foes) are in fact just like us.
Since the 1970s, citrus-hued seats in L-shaped arrangements have offered commuters a warm embrace. Where will subway riders find romance when the Tang-toned seats go?
