Transportation
Life Beyond Line Items
To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?
A Century of Cross Bronx Developments
Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.
A Closer Look: Across the Bronx
“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.’”
Meet the 2025-2026 New City Critics Fellows
New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.
A Tentative Rollout
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.
Main Character Energy
Since the 1970s, citrus-hued seats in L-shaped arrangements have offered commuters a warm embrace. Where will subway riders find romance when the Tang-toned seats go?
Love and Longing in Paratransit
The largest transportation system in the country for people with disabilities, New York City's unreliable Access-A-Ride also brings unexpected social connections.
Bus Time
Slow moving and overstuffed, the public bus is also a space of communion, curiosity, and solidarity for residents on the city's margins.
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.