Neighborhood
Meet the 2025-2026 New City Critics Fellows
New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.
The Sport That Asks Nothing of Us
In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.
The Invisible Arch
Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.
The Shortest Ramp Is a Longer Road
A new Crown Heights bookshop is a cipher for conflicting feelings of ambivalence, betrayal, and belonging
Permanent Resident
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.
The World is About to Turn
In the weekly Jericho Walk, New Sanctuary Coalition and allies confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.
Seneca Village, Envisioned
No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.
Neither Here Nor There
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?