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Photographs

What Becomes a Legend Most?

A redeveloped Rockefeller Center draws tourists from around the globe as well as locals to a place that feels, surprisingly, authentically New York. How are its owners stewarding the storied complex into a second century?

Shelf Life

The Inside Story

Images of public housing interiors decorated with love and care preserve family memories and public history, and document style as an act of resistance.

Living Legend

To reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, and redress damage it has wrought for generations, we have to see the corridor clearly as it is today.

In Absentia

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

Queens Close Up

A half century of immigration has continuously layered new urban forms on an otherwise unremarkable landscape.

Transit Oriented

New construction along elevated train lines brings an unprecedented degree of intimacy between private homes and workplaces and passengers in a 24-hour transit system.

The Green Shift

A Fishmonger

A seafood purveyor builds a sustainable business amidst rising and heating oceans and insatiable demand.

God's Garage

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Ex Officio

The esthetics of the public sector workplace are mundane, comical, absurd, and constantly navigating the tensions of liberal democracy.

Capturing Change

Extra Terrestrial

From Freshkills Park's photographer-in-residence, portraits of another world in formation