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IMPROBABLY, Brooklyn Bridge Park exists. That's not an outcome I would have bet on a couple of decades ago, when the waterfront below Brooklyn Heights was a DMZ of flat, [...]

On the day I meet Dan Doctoroff, I walk across Manhattan from the Shed, which he created, to the East River Esplanade, which he planned; catch a ferry, which he [...]

GILDER CENTER AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. STUDIO GANG. * THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM Studio Gang grapples with the earths basic elements. Aqua Tower in Chicago ripples like the surface of [...]

A DOZEN OR SO years ago, the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels decided he'd had it with a Scandinavian culture that disdained arrogance, and he made a beeline for the world [...]

After the meal comes the ritual cleansing. Bones and fat and stray clumps of spinach slide from my plate into the bin beneath the sink, landing on a length of [...]

Though he was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Leonard Bernstein was always a New Yorker, from his first cigarette of the morning to his last dying day. More than 30 years [...]

WHEN AUTOMOBILES first appeared on the streets of New York, quickly and decisively transforming the city into an early center of car culture, those streets bent to their needs. Sidewalks [...]

WESTWORLD HBO. SEASON-FOUR FINALE AIRED AUGUST 14. Like so many dreamers before them, Westworld's synthetic-flesh-and-circuit creations have finally made it to Manhattan. Perhaps it was inevitable that even the AI-powered [...]

On a heat-stunned late-summer afternoon, the World Trade Center Memorial feels livelier than much of Manhattan. The sun shatters against the tree canopy, reaching the ground in green-gold shards. Tourists [...]

* UNTIL THIS WEEK, David Adjaye was not just the world's most famous Black architect, or African-born architect, or British architect under 60. He was also a certified heroic genius, [...]

Little Island is a billionaire's gift to the public; the supertall 111 West 57th is what the ruling class builds for itself. I [whispers] love them both. PART I: The [...]

Morning rush, 1896. The Third Avenue elevated train clatters into 23rd Street. A young woman trudges down the iron stairs, plucks her skirts just clear of the sidewalk, and joins [...]

Even before the bear-spray residue and splintered glass had been cleaned up, it was clear how January 6, 2021, would be remembered. Most Americans will think of it as the [...]

I The End of an Error The one-term reign of the man who never should've won. DONALD TRUMP DESTROYED many things in his single term as president. The quickest one [...]

Sometime soon, even as office workers still give each other latitude and exchange muffled greetings through their masks, you may find yourself waiting for an elevator. If the building is [...]

We Made Another Book! Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world's most creative, inventive city. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK is on sale October 20. [...]

TWO THINGS NEW YORKERS can agree on: There's too much traffic, and it's someone else's fault. I've listened to cabbies blame bike lanes for gobbling up space, been yelled at [...]

This article provides a list of twenty-five cultural recommendations for patrons to see, hear, watch, and read. The recommendations cover a range of topics, including TV shows, classical music performances, theater productions, music albums, books, podcasts, movies, and live events. The article highlights various genres and styles, from financial dramas to Ukrainian orchestras, musical adaptations, collaborative albums, crime stories, and more. The recommendations aim to cater to diverse interests and perspectives, offering something for everyone to explore and enjoy. [Extracted from the article]

As the virus rolled in like an invisible, toxic fog, I watched apartment buildings go semi-dark and families pack up SUVs and drive off into the countryside. With planes empty [...]

Fully engaged and working nonstop as he turns 91, the most famous architect alive won't take projects in China or Saudi Arabia ('You don't get paid') and is reimagining a [...]

Fame, at least lasting fame--the your-work goes-down-in-history kind, often accompanied by fat royalty payments--is a club that thinks of itself as an unbiased meritocracy, blind to everything but aesthetic innovation [...]

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR By DAVID EDELSTEIN 1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood In this gorgeously meandering farrago, two aging, increasingly irrelevant white males from '50s [...]

* NEW YORK'S architecture critic, Justin Davidson, and art critic, Jerry Saltz, both spent a lot of time considering the expanded Museum of Modern Art. After multiple visits to the [...]

AMANT is at 306 and 315 Maujer Street and 932 Grand Street in East Williamsburg. FOR MOST OF MY LIFE as a lover of architecture, I've been on the hunt [...]

A YEAR AGO, with concert halls and opera houses shut and most professional singers reduced to performing for their pets, baritone Will Liverman received a life-changing phone call. The Metropolitan [...]

This document titled "To Do." provides a list of 25 cultural recommendations for various forms of entertainment, including TV shows, music, theater, art, movies, books, podcasts, and classical music. The recommendations range from watching the TV show "3 Body Problem" on Netflix, to seeing the play "Grief Hotel" at The Public Theater, to reading the book "Glorious Exploits" by Ferdia Lennon. [Extracted from the article]

GENTRIFICATION, that once-wonky, now-common concept, is a term freighted with moral urgency, resentment, and guilt, because almost nobody in a high-cost city can avoid it. You're either suffering its effects [...]

RHIANNON GIDDENS TRAVELS THROUGH TIME TO CREATE NEW MUSIC FROM LOST DIMENSIONS OF AMERICAN CULTURE THIS IS THE STORY of a singer who grew up among white country folk outside [...]

HUDSON YARDS is a billionaires fantasy city, where nothing is ever dirty and everything works, where you can live your PERFECT LIFE and never have to leave--provided you can pay [...]

The pandemic silenced the city's symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning? I LAST WENT to the Metropolitan Opera on March [...]

Todd Field's Tar imagines a radical departure from reality: a woman who has already been music director to a handful of top orchestras. Now, the New York Philharmonic is making [...]

FEDORA PRODUCTION BY DAVID MCVICAR. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA. THROUGH JANUARY 28 FEDORA IS AN opera about decor. It stars a Russian palace, a Parisian salon, and an alpine villa in [...]

NO ARCHITECTURAL monument in New York has stirred up such passionate ambivalence as Philip Johnson's AT&T Building at 550 Madison Avenue. Widely mocked and grudgingly admired, the emblematic tower of [...]