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New City Critics

The Midnight Shift

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

New City Critics

No Rest for the Whimsy

Multiple spins on an elaborate underwater-themed carousel reveal the importance of wonder in the public realm.

New City Critics

Can’t We Have Both?

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.

New City Critics

A Resurrection

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

A Century of Cross Bronx Developments

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

New City Critics

Cereal and Milk

Are Bed-Stuy secrets for me to know and keep?

A Tentative Rollout

Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.

New City Critics

No Mannequins

The new Telfar store is an event space. The event is we're alive and we did this shit.

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.

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.