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Brooklyn
The Bible and the Billionaire
Emily Schmidt spins the origin story of the affordable row house in the 1980s, when pastors and businessmen sowed scorched earth with rows of new homes.
Landmarks Are for Our People
Junior architect Zulmilena Then, our second featured People Mover, is on a mission to preserve East New York’s history in the face of speculation.
Underexposed | 2
For Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.
Underexposed | 1
In the new series, Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.
Live/Work Balance
For our Typecast series, photographer Amani Willett heads to Brooklyn in search of row house businesses, where home and work nestle close and share space.
In Anthology: Crown Heights, Staging the Weight of History
From riots to gentrification, a new production reflects on the evolution of the central Brooklyn neighborhood through oral history, dance, and music. Samuel Feldblum asks, when aggregating narratives, whose story is actually being told?
The Tudor Plain
For our Typecast series, Thomas J. Campanella traces the development of Brooklyn's vast southern plain, a landscape of storybook neo-Tudor row houses thanks to Depression-era builders like Fred Trump.
Mapping Gowanus Today, Imagining Gowanus Tomorrow
Allison Henry explores seven proposals for the future of the Gowanus Canal.
The Korean Shrine of Fort Greene
How a Protestant denomination went from Brooklyn to Seoul — and back to Brooklyn again