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?

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?

Stories of making home and community care from co-ops and lofts to adjoined brick houses and wood paneled basements

Hyperlocal settings frame larger phenomena including stormwater management, the politics of place names, ersatz infrastructure, the tyranny of private property, and other signs of the never-ending change that characterizes the city.