Tag: new york city
Alex Marshall: Commons Has Expanded, Not Shrunk, Over Past 200 Years
April 2013Public water systems, public education, public libraries, and public roads are modern innovations.
Erika Anderson: On the Tracks
December 2012Ki-Suck Han’s death on a New York City subway track has the city asking what would I do? One writer examines death in public, how the MTA handles trauma, and what it feels like to be an onlooker.
Richard Falk: Istanbul, a Modest Proposal
November 2012Could Istanbul be the future capital of the world?
Albert Appleton: How New York City Kept Its Drinking Water Pure–And Saved Billions of Dollars
November 2012How did New York City manage to control pollution in its water supply on the cheap?
Street Art and the New Bohemian: A conversation with Eric Drooker and Molly Crabapple
July 2012The two visual artists on the gravitas needed to make protest art, the rhetoric and representations of the Occupy movement, and how to seduce an audience by grabbing them by the eyeballs.
A Fire in My Belly
July 2012After losing his companion Peter Hujar to AIDS, artist and activist David Wojnarowicz attempts to film grief while wrestling with his own mortality.
Miniature Shrines
October 2011The artist’s installations of shrines in Manhattan’s East Village honor people who lived and died in the neighborhood.
The Switchboard
August 2011The wry poet on the crossover between poetry and the punk rock scene, O’Hara and Ginsberg, and embracing technology.
The Earth is a Mosque
December 2010Two New York City Muslims discuss the Islamic imperative to care for the earth.
New York Doesn’t Love You Either
By Meakin ArmstrongSeptember 2010
Our fiction editor’s theory on New York as a place of neutrality and a refuge from soul crushing lunches at Applebee’s…and his call for proselytizing Christians to leave New Yorkers alone.
