Location scouts have shaped representations of New York for decades. Now, changes to the film industry and the built environment both threaten a carefully cultivated way of seeing.

Over more than 20 years, an artist ferrying passengers through New York’s waterways in small boats has shared a unique vantage on an always-changing island city.

Landmarking has long been one of the few tools available to preserve a building. Can historic preservation adapt to protect affordability and utility alongside cornices and columns?

Ordering pad thai on an iPad in the muzak of a takeout food chain created in the pressure cooker of the post-pandemic economy.

A contemporary "bathhouse" draws on ancient traditions to heighten experience, but is untethered from the more convivial aspects of bathing culture.

Behind the scenes of a DIY stalwart’s rebuild as it returns after ten years to a changed LES, and world.

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?

Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?