With the passage of the state budget and the long-awaited and hard-fought approval of congestion pricing for Manhattan, New Yorkers worn down by endless subway delays and clogged city streets may see ...
On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...
Soon after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s ambitious plan to extend lower Manhattan into the East River, Klaus Jacob, a special research scientist with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty ...
"I would say that the investment that we are seeing is unprecedented in this community. We are talking billions of dollars," said Jeremy Laufer, the District Manager of Sunset Park’s community board. ...
The de Blasio administration has encouraged New Yorkers to work remotely, shuttered restaurants and bars, and closed the city’s school system to curb the spread of COVID-19. But private construction ...
2018 was one heck of a year for New York: The beloved Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island became a landmark, a wave of progressive politicians refocused the conversation around issues like housing ...
Fifty years ago, on August 5, 1966, the sound of jackhammers rang out at the corner of Cortlandt and West streets in the Financial District, and the intersection ceased to exist. Those jackhammers ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has all but suspended public life in New York City. Major avenues and boulevards whose sidewalks usually teem with pedestrians now sit empty; well-trafficked plazas and transit ...
Opponents of a contested city-backed housing project that will raze the Elizabeth Street Garden have followed through on months of legal threats, and have filed lawsuits against the development. The ...
I’m angry that the two biggest architecture stories of New York 2019 are fuckups. The hollow grandeur of Hudson Yards and the evacuated spaces of the Hunters Point Library in Queens have turned what ...
In a surprisingly aggressive relief measure unveiled late Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced a sweeping ban on evictions of tenants who are unable to pay rent because of the ...
A precedent-setting court ruling could have forced the city to study the racial impacts of a neighborhood rezoning, potentially making those plans more equitable. But an unanimous appeals court ...