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Brooklyn
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
Venture Capital's Commune
What happens when Silicon Valley plays landlord and life coach? Ava Kofman investigates what distinguishes the "co-living" trend from the New York housing paradigm — and what it means for the city's neighborhoods.
Embedding Histories in a Changing Prospect Heights
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani shares stories of significant personal places from six Prospect Heights residents in the early 2000s and introduces a project to make visible those stories in the very different landscape of the contemporary neighborhood.