New City Critics

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?

Join the New City Critics on June 17 for a publication launch and conversation.

The new Telfar store is an event space. The event is we're alive and we did this shit.

Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?

An artist chronicles her daily life through the lens of property. From homes to household goods, are we condemned to be defined by what we own?

Beloved for their innocence and feared as vectors of disease, pigeons are a divisive and constant presence in New York City. A monumental statue atop the High Line urges us to consider how our feral friends (or foes) are in fact just like us.