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Brooklyn

A Tentative Rollout

Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.

This Is a Rehearsal

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?

Romantic Urbanism

Try a Little Tenderness

A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.

Romantic Urbanism

A Moon for My Neighbors

In neighborhood life, as in the romantic comedy classic, Moonstruck, romance thrives within a loose network of daily tenderness.

Romantic Urbanism

My Favorite Mister (Fruit)

Comfort, consistency, and intimacy at the corner greengrocer

New City Critics

Criticism as an Act of Love

Hyperlocal settings frame larger phenomena including stormwater management, the politics of place names, ersatz infrastructure, the tyranny of private property, and other signs of the never-ending change that characterizes the city.

Watch This Space

Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.

A Wall Made of Bricks

Geologic processes, local histories, and centuries of labor converge on a project suggesting new possibilities of reuse.

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.

Painter of Modern Life

The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.