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The Urban Optimist's Holiday Gift Guide
Suggestions for the New Yorker (or other metropolitan) who loves cities, believes in their future and wants gifts with civic soul
My First Adult Apartment
Finding a place of your own in New York is notoriously challenging — but also rewarding. We asked some New Yorkers to reflect on their first apartments in the city.
Five Years That Shaped the Modern City
What Jonathan Mahler’s ‘Gods of New York’ captures — and misses
Urban Infrastructure, Reexamined
A new exhibition helps New Yorkers appreciate how the city is held together.