“It wasn’t my first brush with the all-seeing eye…nor would it be my last.”
Michael Casper is ready for his Google Street View close-up in LARA 2.
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“I’m driving—AC blasting, terrier panting in the back seat—on the hunt for some recently deployed bus shelters designed by SOM with BMW’s Designworks and Studio One Eleven. The irony is not lost on me.”
Mimi Zeiger seeks shelters in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/helter-shelter
“For the first time since 2020, when the ‘Sunnyside Master Plan’ flamed out amid the chaos of the early pandemic, the decking of the undeckable is very much back on the national political agenda.”
Revisit @aarontimms.bsky.social on Sunnyside Yard in NYRA 41
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“Upon driving in, each customer is handed a happy face air freshener that looks more like the logo for a matcha shop than a drive-through car wash.”
Lina Abascal pulls up to Sun Day Carwash in LARA no. 2.
nyra.nyc/articles/sun-day-sudday-sun-day
“Against the not-so-distant backdrop of natural wine bars and bakeries so Insta-famous they regularly sell out by 2:00 p.m., Abrons Arts Center cuts a tough but benevolent figure.”
Marianela D’Aprile finds that LES is more at Abrons in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/most-likely-to-persevere
Extramural Activity | New York Review of Architecture
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
by @aarontimms.bsky.social
"Trailing history on the Parisian périph"
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We’re delighted to share that NYRA has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors! Congratulations to finalists Thomas de Monchaux and @markkrotov.bsky.social!
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“When Four Freedoms finally opened in 2012, Michael Kimmelman described the park as a ‘monumental triumph for New York’ and its ‘new spiritual heart.’ I can’t say I’ve ever seen what Kimmelman saw.”
Justin Beal freestyles on Four Freedoms in NYRA 49.
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highly rec this @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social story on sunnyside yard nyra.nyc/articles/ava...
“The resulting landscape is a ‘place’ in the way that a ‘bowl’ is now something that you can have for lunch—that is, a container of things standing in for a thing in its own right.”
James Andrew Billingsley wags a finger at Wagner Park in NYRA no. 49.
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“A barista recounted to her coworker an angry customer’s complaint: ‘I was in Korea and your latte wasn’t this color. You don’t have standards across stores?’”
Michael Nicholas takes his coffee with a side of eavesdropping in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/spilled-beans
“I arrived in Paris, at the age of seventeen, a virgin. I left Paris, at the age of eighteen, a virgin.”
@aarontimms.bsky.social will always have Paris in NYRA 49.
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“YOU just try to devise a poem that channels the qualia of zoning. And another on the splendiferous tonic of equity trusts.”
@dlondonwortel.bsky.social waxes poetic about SONNETS FOR MY CITY (1965) by Arthur C. Holden in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/village-voice
"I hadn’t spent the day at my marketing job or taking a hot Pilates class. I am an unemployed writer. I didn’t make sense here."
Isaac Engelberg nibbles on Lil Sweet Treat in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/gummy-shelter
I reviewed the office of Harper’s magazine -
“The place is full of stuff. There are black-and-white photos of Kafka randomly taped to windows and walls. Nobody is quite sure who put them up or why.”
@ntok.bsky.social visits the office of @harpers.bsky.social in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/666-broadway-harper-s
Rose-tinted urbanism, at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social (I had a gift link so it might work for you! Good stuff in the newsletter today)
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Not our intention. Email us at office at nyra.nyc and we will fix it.
If you are moved to subscribe after reading them, today’s the last day to redeem your free “Rat’s Amore” T-shirt with the link below!
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Rat’s amore! As a token of our affection this Valentine’s Day, we’ve lifted the paywall from a selection of our most-loved articles, personally introduced by NYRA staff.
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“I looked up at the preponderance of new developments rising over the waterway and tried to ignore the pervasive basal stink.”
Olivia Gieger paddles down the Gowanus Canal in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/a-super-fund-thing-i-ll-never-do-again
“The new generation of chatelains are not to the manor born. As content creators, they are bound by the class solidarity of the hustle.”
Kay Wisnowski takes a diacritical dive into the Châteauverse in NYRA 49.
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Amen.
Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, and the internet is awash with the usual dreary assortment of gift ideas…but nothing says “I love you” like architectural criticism! Subscribe before February 14 and we’ll throw in a free yellow “Rat’s Amore” T-shirt.
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“THE FOUNTAINHEAD, as punk a product as the studio system ever green-lit, is still snarling today because it seems to lash out at itself.”
Jackson Arn hails King Vidor’s THE FOUNTAINHEAD in NYRA 49.
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just two totes tote on the left is the tote from the New York Review of Architecture. it features a cartoon of mice eating lunch on a single steel beam hoisted above the new york skyline in the background. The beam is being lifted by a rope, which is dangerously frayed and might snap at any moment, ruining the delightful lunch with a pleasant view. tote on the right is from the HUMP! Film Fest, which I received at Seattle’s 2025 Pride Festival. It features a cartoon phallus decked out in leather gear, bottle of poppers in cutesy garb, and a bottle of lube with the HUMP! Film Fest logo. All of the cartoonish figures are waving welcomingly
I only have two, and ahhhh clearly only use one of them lmao
but I’ve been using the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social one any day I leave my apartment now!
“These objects preserve the social-democratic spirit that remained flat-packed, stateside, until Mamdani finally found an Allen wrench.”
Eric Schwartau finds his Allen wrench in NYRA 49.
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“We may yet find our way to a world where we can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and make playlists after dinner, just as Marx had in mind.”
Nick Murray reviews MOOD MACHINE by @lizpelly.bsky.social in NYRA 49.
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“We glimpse the ancient dream of perfect mastery over nature’s most violent expressions—catastrophe without casualty, terror without trauma.”
Enrique Ramirez reviews Jennifer Kabat’s NIGHTSHINING in NYRA 49.
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“The Villa produces a central effect of the Gothic form itself: It makes a carefully wrought ‘elsewhere’ of alluring and unsettling mysteries feel achingly present, if only in imagination.”
Anna Ballan goes the full Brontë in NYRA 49.
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