New City Critics

With a fragment of the Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower preserved for posterity, a MoMA exhibition provides more than one perspective on planned obsolescence.

Posting the experiences of shelter residents and staff in the public realm, artist Alex Strada creates a walking meditation on the right to housing.

A contemporary "bathhouse" draws on ancient traditions to heighten experience, but is untethered from the more convivial aspects of bathing culture.

The MTA’s latest military-inspired tactics to curb fare evasion may be fighting the wrong enemy.

At an experiment in collective dining, sitting between food justice and conspicuous consumption

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

Multiple spins on an elaborate underwater-themed carousel reveal the importance of wonder in the public realm.

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.

At one of the country’s largest food distribution hubs, a logistical choreography keeps our fish fresh.

Behind the scenes of a DIY stalwart’s rebuild as it returns after ten years to a changed LES, and world.

New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.

A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.

In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.

Plants in a Staten Island garden — and the communities that sustain them — bloom in genders beyond binaries.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

A new Crown Heights bookshop is a cipher for conflicting feelings of ambivalence, betrayal, and belonging

Are Bed-Stuy secrets for me to know and keep?