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.

It’s easy to be a visionary when the alternative is an ash heap. A casino megaproject promised for Queens reveals the persistent failures of imagination driving “development” and its discontents.

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?

New York was founded on industry. As e-commerce rewrites the supply chain, how are we protecting the small businesses left behind?

In the shadow of the Flatiron, a writer spends an hour conducting her own public space audit.

At the start of a new mayoral administration promising an urban transformation, eight practitioners discuss architecture’s role in shaping the social democratic city.

A high-volume transfer station, a model municipal soil bank, and a cutting-edge soil washer: Three area sites illustrate the values, costs, and benefits that shape the flow of recycled soil in and around the city.

In the 1970s, a wave of arson caused widespread damage to the Bronx and the tenants who called it home. What brought a decade of fire to an end?

At one of the country’s largest food distribution hubs, a logistical choreography keeps our fish fresh.

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