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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.theoutfield.nyc · 15/09/2026

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)

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 16/09/2026

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...

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Fowl Play

The Beautiful Game comes for Willets Point.

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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

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Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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-...

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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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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“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.”

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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...

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Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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

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Stack @stackmagazines.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“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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Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 26/06/2026

• 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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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads

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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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“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...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“The Shakers may be the only millenarian Christians in American history who need sinners like you and me to think they’re cool.” Jackson Arn contemplates the work of art in the age of puritanical reproduction in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/sha...

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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Honored and somewhat mystified to have won a National Magazine Award for my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social piece on Paul Rudolph alongside the great @monchaux.bsky.social, who won for two of his NYRA pieces (on Rudolph and the new Frick). Architectural criticism forever! nyra.nyc/articles/meg...

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Megalopolis

My longing for LOMEX occupies a kind of double counterfactual—<EM>what if</EM>, but <EM>what if not in that way</EM>—not wholly dissimilar from Rudolph’s own.

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Showy and detached and hyperformally expressive buildings cannot be merely coincidental with showy and detached men who believe they have a lot to say.” @monchaux.bsky.social judges David Adjaye’s recent museum projects in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/debris-of-separation

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thank you to all our readers and subscribers for fêting the big 5-0 with us! www.instagram.com/p/DYSIE0TEdg...

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“Who but Wallace Shawn and André Gregory would dare serve up this steaming brew of Sleepytime and manage to make such a riveting night of theater?” Moze Halperin is aflutter over Wallace Shawn’s MOTH DAYS in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/shawn-of-the-dead

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nice thread

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It may be our fiftieth issue, but it features several firsts, including our first guest cover illustrator, Madelon Vriesendorp. Subscribe today to get no. 50 and the Guide delivered to your door. nyra.nyc/subscribe

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“You fall into a series of articles that are irreverent, witty, passionate, and always well-written. These contributors are, first of all, very good writers—who happen to be writing about architecture.” — Billie Tsien Our brand-new, Billie-approved issue: nyra.nyc/issues/50

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My humble contribution to the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social’s stunning Guide to New York City

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Paul Goldberger and @markkrotov.bsky.social debate the merits of Norman Foster’s JPMorgan Chase tower our brand new NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/normcores

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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So grateful to @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social—and especially Sammy Medina and Chloe Wyma—for letting me Sorkinize about the worst new building in New York alongside Paul Goldberger (who likes it).

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 30/04/2026

absolutely banger cover

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Two critics joyfully agree to disagree in NYRA no. 49. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Write to us at editor@nyra.nyc. nyra.nyc/articles/joie-de-livre

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

To celebrate NYRA’s septennial alongside International Workers’ Day, we’re cutting the price of an annual subscription to $51 from now until May 7. A full year of the most rambunctious urban criticism around for less than a New York wine bar chicken! nyra.nyc/subscribe/may-day-2026

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“You don’t need to be an architect or a New Yorker to appreciate NYRA.” Thanks for including us among your favorites reads, @mprnews.org! mprnews.org/story/2025/12/29/mpr-newsroom-best-book-picks-of-2025

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The Corman/McCoy debate lives on in NYRA no. 49 as two Santa Monicans exchange memories of 2501 La Mesa Drive. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Write to us at editor@nyra.nyc. nyra.nyc/articles/pool-talk

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