Urban Residue - leftover thoughts from the day

I was awoken yesterday by a pre-dawn ATF raid on a house behind mine. My dogs started barking the alarm as men with rifles walked across the...

Beginning in 2016, I have been finding architectural fragments in the Bronx River. Chunks of brick, concrete, and a bit of terra cotta occas...

I got around to visiting the new Gilder Center by Studio Gang at the American Museum of Natural History last weekend, and it's visually ...

A campaign stop on a street corner is a politician's opportunity to connect with voters by speaking directly to them. When you draw a cr...

They are a place to rest, to wait for someone you're meeting, to relax and watch the world go by. On a thriving city street, large publi...

This is the sort of project that makes people resentful of cyclists. The bike channels installed on newly reconstructed step streets like th...

Abandoned places in New York City are becoming increasingly rare. On a recent excursion with my son, I intended to go explore an abandoned ...