Housing

For our Typecast series, Henry Grabar visits Canarsie, where long rows of attached brick houses defy traditional flood-proofing elevation. Could rising flood insurance premiums pose a greater immediate threat to homeowners than rising sea levels?

After Superstorm Sandy, a historic housing style is on the brink of extinction on Staten Island's East Shore. A. F. Brady explores what stands to be lost, and gained, in government efforts to rebuild the area after the storm.

This week on Typecast, Allison Henry tells the tale of Clarence True, a 19th century architect-developer who believed he alone could save the row house from mundanity.

For our Typecast series, we look at the row house as costume, backdrop, and even a character in its own right in popular culture.

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.

Twelve students, six proposals, three sites: budding urban designers and architects re-envision New York City public housing.

In the latest installment of our Typecast series, Neil Freeman counts and maps New York's row houses — all 217,000 of them.

In 1979, Trenton established what was thought to be a new housing paradigm. Why has it never been imitated?

What we can learn from New York's humble row house, a form at once dominant and overlooked.

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.