Faces

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New York City is a true “melting pot”—of people, cultures, and of course, food. Within one square mile, you can enjoy French breads with African fufu, Irish stews, Italian pies, Caribbean roti, or Cambodian fish amok. The city that never sleeps alway

Slam

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FANS CRAMMED INTO any open space available. They stood side by side, packed in uncomfortably under the blistering sun. They peaked through tiny holes in surrounding fences. Some sat perched on a neighboring building, their feet dangling freely from d

AZURE

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_Pier 35 _New York, New York _SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Workshop These days, more than a few of New York City’s piers – relics of another, more industrial age – are being reinvented as parks and other public spaces, creating challenges both visua

The Atlantic

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New York’s cemeteries have overflowed before. In the 1850s, the people filling the cemetery were not all dead. Throughout the hot days of summer, New Yorkers flocked to Brooklyn’s sprawling Green-Wood Cemetery in order to breathe and move. The city’s

Landscape Architecture Magazine

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FOUR CORRIDORS: DESIGN INITIATIVE FOR RPA’S FOURTH REGIONAL PLAN EDITED BY PAUL LEWIS, GUY NORDENSON, AND CATHERINE SEAVITT; BERLIN: HATJE CANTZ, 2019; 256 PAGES, $60. POLITICAL PLANNING MECHANISMS heave and buckle. For 100 years, though, the Regiona

NPR

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The global pandemic hit the milestone overnight, taking a particularly heavy toll on Italy, Spain and the U.S. Its real extent is likely larger — yet still unknown as countries catch up with testing.

NPR

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More than a mere chronicler armed with facts and dates, Sam Roberts is a nonfiction writer with the heart of a novelist; he's writing about buildings — but he does so while telling engaging stories.

Manhattan Institute

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Today, July 20, New York City starts Phase 4 of the reopening of its commercial and social institutions, approximately 15 weeks after the peak of the outbreak there—and several weeks after all other areas in the state crossed this milestone. Consiste

NPR

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After two delays and many contentious debates with teachers, parents and principals, students in the largest school district in the country are returning to in-person school.

Manhattan Institute

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On March 1, 2020, the first case of Covid-19 appeared in the New York City metropolitan region; soon after, the city was the epicenter of the pandemic. By the third week of March, Governor Andrew Cuomo had implemented policies to stop the spread. Bus

Los Angeles Times

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NEW YORK –– By 7:30 most weekday mornings, hundreds of children driven in unmarked cars and vans from foster homes across New York City start to arrive at the hulking yellow-brick building in East Harlem. The latest stop on a journey that took them f

The Paris Review

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All photos: © Andre D. Wagner I spent my first twenty-three years on this planet living in the same apartment building in the Bronx. I felt ownership over those gum-stained concrete blocks. I dreamed of scattering my ashes on them when I died, like M

Manhattan Institute

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I got to know Herb London in one of the final roles in which he excelled during a lifetime of excellence: that of grandfatherly mentor. Over a series of breakfasts, podcast sessions, and correspondences—interactions that I will forever cherish —he wa

Manhattan Institute

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Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal. He writes primarily about New York City politics and culture. Barron has a B.A. in English literature from Trinity University and an M.A. and M.Phil. in the same subject from Yale University. You live

The Atlantic

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This season of social distancing will also be one of social closeness between neighbors—illuminating divides of race, class, and place.

Manhattan Institute

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Derek Thompson discussed living in New York City and Washington, D.C., overlooked urban trends, millennials’ economic future, and more with City Journal assistant editor Charles F. McElwee. Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers

ROVA

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For city dwellers, the great outdoors is revered as a place that exists beyond the confines of your usual environment—somewhere that you drive for days to get to, where there are no buildings or people, and where nature is practically climbing in thr

NPR

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"In fact, we're growing faster outside the [San Francisco] Bay Area than within it," says Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, a senior vice president of both Google and its parent company, Alphabet.

Manhattan Institute

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This article will appear in City Journal's forthcoming Spring 2020 issue. By mid-March, New York City had become a global hotspot for the coronavirus, with 3 percent of global cases, despite having less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the world’s popu

Manhattan Institute

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On Thursday, it snowed a few inches in New York—and chaos ensued. The afternoon commute was a horror for hundreds of thousands of commuters, with cars inching forward on major highways and would-be bus riders waiting in long lines on Fifth Avenue and

Manhattan Institute

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For most of its history, New York was one of America’s great boomtowns, growing at a rate comparable with metro Dallas or Houston today. From America’s first census until 1930, the city’s population expanded by double-digit percentages every decade—a

Manhattan Institute

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New York City’s hiring process for contact tracers has been marked by internal strife, bureaucratic delays, and union fights.

Manhattan Institute

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The city’s technology sector has thrived in a terrible year, but the next mayor shouldn’t rest on these laurels.

The Christian Science Monitor

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The struggles of New York’s small-business community, which employs nearly half the city’s private workforce, point to broader economic challenges.

Manhattan Institute

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The appeal of working from home wears thin, and big real estate deals promise a rebirth of the Big Apple.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Progress in building codes, fire inspections, and other measures have reduced New York City's fire fatalities from upwards of 300 a year in the 1970s to just 48 last year.

Manhattan Institute

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New Yorkers are trying their best to muddle through—but will their government and political class fail them?

Manhattan Institute

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Density is not causally linked to Covid-19 infection or death rates, according to a new study of more than 900 U.S. counties from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Shima Hamidi and her coauthors found that, after accounting for var

NPR

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Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo both point to signs of good news in the coronavirus data, but say that restrictions on nonessential workers and businesses must continue.

Manhattan Institute

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New York’s just-ended legislative session represents the triumph of the Left. The lawmakers dealt heavy blows to property rights and the rule of law, hammered the state’s long-term economic stability, and gave reason to fear for the continued viabili