Society & Culture

Take Me to Bellevue

Though sometimes maligned as New York’s own bedlam, the centuries-old public hospital has never turned away a patient—and is itself a great survivor.

January 19, 2017 issue

The Bridge

Beauty in power, beauty through power: it has become a symbol of the American longing to wrest beauty out of a purely industrial environment.

July 15, 1965 issue

Megalo-MoMA

Now, to go with the airport-terminal style of the Taniguchi building, we have a combination of corporate bank branch and provincial convention center.

December 5, 2019 issue

What Happened to the West Village?

The neighborhood became the epicenter of what the remorseless rise of rents will do to a once mixed and diverse city, rich foremost in its peoples and cultures.

October 9, 2019

A Sense of the Past

The city has always grown in violent spurts, planlessly, each new boom partly or altogether obliterating the idiosyncrasy of its predecessor.

March 19, 1964 issue

Up with Downtown

Mike Wallace’s vision for New York is as a city on a hill for the twenty-first century—a city committed to social justice, sustainable growth, and general welfare.

December 19, 2002 issue

He’ll Take Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas rhapsodizes on New York City’s built theatricality and its “culture of congestion,” but he does not reckon on their costs.

June 14, 1979 issue

Times Square Reborn

A quietly brilliant reconfiguration of Times Square shows how much can be achieved in city planning without gigantic financial outlays and dire social displacements.

June 7, 2017