New City Critics

Chisholm Town

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

New City Critics

Queer Comfort

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

Networked Nursery

Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.

New City Critics

Meet the 2024-2025 New City Critics Fellows

New City Critics fellows — architects, journalists, artists, a city planner and a rapper among them — will be training a critical gaze on New York City over the next nine months.

New City Critics

Long Island is Bugging Me

A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.

How to Map New York City

A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.