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.

紐約華埠的地方營造方案早已提倡修建一座雕塑拱門。然而這種被發明的傳統能否反映出華埠如今的社交與文化生活的多樣性？

纽约华埠的地方营造方案早已提倡修建一座雕塑拱门。然而这种被發明的傳統能否反映出华埠如今的社交与文化生活的多样性？

A neighborhood advocate marshals data and organizes neighbors to make congested Midtown streets safe for pedestrians.

Theaters and concert halls are redesigning their interiors to entice new audiences and shore up revenue. Can performance spaces elevate everyday life, too?

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.

At a West Village Co-Op, the resident manager gets the building — and its residents — ready for rising waters and new climate mandates.

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.

The removal of a public art installation by Maya Lin to make way for a better, brighter Penn Station portends a growing denial of the precarity of human passage through time and space.

After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.