Architecture

The city’s construction projects don’t just rise skyward. They dig downward, displacing massive amounts of material whose journey in and out of the city few ever see.

As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

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.

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.

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.

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.