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What About Amtrak and Afghanistan? Sometimes Building Big Is the Problem

Brooklyn architect David Grider had an interesting rebuttal to The Observer‘s story last week about the need for greater infrastructure
By Matt Chaban

City’s Economic Future Linked to Brain Power

Over time, scholars of urban life have explained New York’s special qualities in various ways. Our city, from its birth
By Abraham M. Lackman

Digging the Urban Past: A Subterranean Panorama

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City , by Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall. Yale University Press, 374
By Gerard Koeppel
Drawing from journal of Candy Darling, 1969-72 (Courtesy Outlaw Art Museum)

New York: Triumph of the Swarm

By Clay Felker
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