“I’ve always thought, I said to her, that gay people came to Riis because of the veneer of disrepair and the privacy it made possible. Now you’ve done the repairs.” Jo Livingstone visits the Rockaway Ocean Club at Riis Beach in NYRA no. 51. nyra.nyc/articles/rii...

“Plus Pool’s boosters have presented its origin as a sort of chill parthenogenesis—a concept springing fully formed from the doldrums of 2010’s record-breaking New York summer.” James Andrew Billingsley is too cool for Plus Pool in NYRA no. 51. nyra.nyc/articles/plu...

"Because the new building so conservatively and so discouragingly confines itself to everything that you’ve ever seen before from OMA, it occasions a long look back." @monchaux.bsky.social roasts the NewMu’s starchy starchitecture in NYRA no. 53. nyra.nyc/articles/hot...

“May we all learn from Sorkin by imagining this city as the strangest, kindest, most liberatory possible version of itself.” Audrey Wollen reviews PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: MICHAEL SORKIN’S NEW YORK (@columbiagsapp.bsky.social) in NYRA no. 51. nyra.nyc/articles/wal...

Introducing NYRA no. 51: Cup, cone, or inverted zigguRAT? Issues are on their way to our subscribers. Not yet a subscriber? Become one today and get the scoop from NYRA in your mailbox. nyra.nyc

I found this (quite long) article from @aarontimms.bsky.social at the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social quite compelling surrounding the dichotomy of Etihad Park providing a home for its passionate fanbase and squeezing out every dollar it can. (also, the art is dope)

v nice to see @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social go long on Etihad Park, a bundle of intense contradictions I find myself intermittently giddy about (as a fan) and dreading (as a person with eyes) as its opening date approaches nyra.nyc/articles/fow...

We have just updated our mailing list for our newest issue and discovered we have subscribers now in 47/50 states.

Computer, enhance (with stacks of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social & @newyorker.com)

For this year’s London Design Festival we’re collaborating with St Brides to take a fresh look at where magazines came from, and what they mean to readers today. In-person tickets are £40 for the full day, or £34 for the livestream, and they're available now. billetto.co.uk/e/stack-and-...

Stack and St Bride Foundation uncover 300 years of magazine evolution

What is a magazine? How did we end up with the things we know as magazines today? And how are the m...

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“I would advise my critics to live in the now that is forming and to seize it with both hands rather than lament a world of norms and structures that has already disintegrated before their eyes. The breakdown has already come to pass. What comes after is far more difficult.”

New York Review of Architecture@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tizziana Baldenebro and @mcmansionhell.bsky.social exchange epistles on the erstwhile East Wing in NYRA no. 50. (link in bio) Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at editor@nyra.nyc. nyra.nyc/articles/add...

Tizziana Baldenebro and @mcmansionhell.bsky.social exchange epistles on the erstwhile East Wing in NYRA no. 50. (link in bio) Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at editor@nyra.nyc. nyra.nyc/articles/add...

in a thread about the London Review of Books; but yesterday I was reading @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social at the pool and thinking, I am so grateful to the people who still think being an intellectual is a worthy lifetime pursuit, applicable to any and all potential topics of scrutiny and discussion

Natasha Simonova@philistella.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All of their film pieces are like 'at this viewing of Minions and Monsters I contemplated Weimar Germany'

It's not often that I screengrab an email to put it on here, but this one is worth it. Welcome, New York Review of Finance, cousin of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

“Stare out onto Coney Island Creek, past the skeletons of the boats beached across the decades, and you will see it: the yellow submarine.” Andy Battle dredges the QUESTER 1 in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“A capsule was less a portal of restorative calm or creative incubator than a convenient pad to sleep off a drunken night on the town, far away from the wife and kids.” Casey Mack encapsulates the Nakagin Capsule Tower in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/pod...

“What’s an all-American, all-Soviet building like you doing in a place like this?” Mark Krotov contemplates the Russian Diplomatic Compound in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“My whole life I dreamed of being an artist; the park allowed me the space to become one.” Dean Majd pops an ollie at Astoria Skate Park in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“How is it that where others saw something approaching civil war, Whyte alighted on a market utopia?” Andy Battle answers the whys and wherefores of William H. Whyte’s urbanism in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/cau...

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So it's a thrill to discover that immortal book has inspired @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social's delightful GUIDE TO NYC, a gift for its subscribers. Subscribe now and “see our city askew” with 50 superb writers, including...

• A pair of aces (@newyorker.com) • Room for growth (@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social) • Still a-maze-ing (@theguardian.com) • Wheel of misfortune (@ajc.com) • The road less traveled (Deseret News) longreads.com/2026/06/26/l...

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In this edition: • A pair of aces • Room for growth • Still a-maze-ing • Wheel of misfortune • The road less traveled

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“Picture a cross between an Easter Island head and a guillotine as rendered by a Viennese weapons manufacturer.” Christopher Hawthorne gets lean and Wien in NYRA’s inaugural Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“Once in Blighty, many of the pioneering Central European modernists softened the hard-edged stances they previously took.” Ross Wolfe reviews Owen Hatherley’s THE ALIENATION EFFECT in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/str...

“Part of the draw for many fans is that the spaces make them feel superior. I would never live in that tacky monstrosity, they might think—nice marble countertop, though.” lorakelley.bsky.social homes in on chez HOUSEWIVES in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/mcm...

“THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway has a special way of rankling its audience. It reminds you how your caviar dreams are going—and how dearly you paid for a few hours in that seat.” Travis Diehl assails THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/sup...

“I often call weeds a commons, believing that under capitalism they are what is left for the rest of us.” Jennifer Kabat botanizes on the asphalt in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/wee...

“If you come on the right day in early summer, you can see big piles of exuberant horseshoe crabs crawling all over each other in a festival of reproduction.” James Andrew Billingsley day-trips to Ward’s Point in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“The reality is a greenwashed Tatlin’s Tower by way of Tishman Speyer.” Ann Manov endures corporate drudgery and shrubbery in Hudson Yards in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/doo...

“If nostalgia for imperialish grandeur and a longing for a suburban lifestyle are two pillars of Victorian Flatbush, the third is exclusivity.” Randle Browning finds rus in urbe in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/dit...