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New City Critics

New City Critics 2025–26: City en Regalia

Join the New City Critics on June 17 for a publication launch and conversation.

New City Critics

A Way Out of No Way

Contact with life’s sharper edges guides artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s quest to assist the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

The Future of Infrastructure and Place

What is the path forward to contend with historic and contemporary harms of urban highways across the country, and to honor the needs and desires of contemporary residents? Insights from a conversation on the Cross Bronx, the BQE, and the road to more just transportation infrastructures.

Romantic Urbanism

Try a Little Tenderness

A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.

Everybody Should Be Honored

A rare combination of collective art project, community celebration, and environmental protest, the Hunts Point Fish Parade honors residents of the Bronx neighborhood and mobilizes them in the fight for its future.

New City Critics

New Conversations: Critical Directions

Join us for an in-person event on June 28, 2023.

New Conversations: NYC +

Join us for a conversation with four exciting new publications on Wednesday, January 25.

Street Ballet Opera

An ambitious new opera plumbs the humanity and contemporary relevance of two mythic figures of New York City: Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.

Well-Placed

Teenage Dream

At the annual Anti-Prom, queer and trans teens refashion the New York Public Library’s marble-lioned flagship into a kinder, gentler world.

Metropolitan Meditations | November 20

Join us at UnionDocs on November 20 to celebrate filmmaker Peter Hutton's groundbreaking portraits of New York City's landscapes.