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New City Critics

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?

More Than Skin Deep

Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.

Shelf Life

The Inside Story

Images of public housing interiors decorated with love and care preserve family memories and public history, and document style as an act of resistance.

Shelf Life

Design and Deploy

To temporarily transform public space, Street Lab's lending library of outdoor furniture is designed to stand up to regular travel, extreme heat, and children's imaginations.

The Green Shift

Building Solidarity

Workers across the building trades talk about what it takes to construct a just transition to a sustainable economy.

In Absentia

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

A Wall Made of Bricks

Geologic processes, local histories, and centuries of labor converge on a project suggesting new possibilities of reuse.

21st Century Monument

Where a controversial sculpture stood, a monument to Harriet Tubman offers a new narrative and new directions for creating sites of collective memory.

God's Garage

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Whereabouts

9-26924

Wite-Out never really works as intended.