Neighborhood

“The Cross Bronx is the catalyst for the Bronx history that drives my work as a documentarian of community. It’s this dichotomy of, ‘I wish this was never here,’ and ‘I would miss it if it went away.’”

New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.

In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.

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?

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.

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?