A Century of Cross Bronx Developments
Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
The Tempest
As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
Exhibition: Cross Bronx / Living Legend
Reconsidering one of New York City’s most contested infrastructures through new photography and oral histories that focus on the experiences of the people and places touched by it, our exhibition is on view at the Bronx River Art Center from September 26 through November 9.
Meet the 2025-2026 New City Critics Fellows
New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.
A Closer Look: Across the Bronx
“The Cross Bronx is the catalyst for the Bronx history that drives my work as a documentarian of community. It’s this dichotomy of, ‘I wish this was never here,’ and ‘I would miss it if it went away.’”
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, secure home in the city.
Permanent Resident