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Justin Bettman and Gözde Eker animate their sets with actors hired through a local casting website. After they’ve staged their photo, they leave the set up for passersby to explore, photograph, rearrange or selfie. This living room was the first set they

Here’s how you can find a bathroom, or a living room, on the streets of New York

Arts

A photographer and a Turkish set designer started building domestic scenes on the street of New York. What started out as an art project has become a commentary on our disposable culture and how public space is valued.

Adolfo Carrión campaigns along 116th Street in “El Barrio” in East Harlem. Carrión, a former Bronx Borough President and member of the Obama administration, is running for New York City mayor on the Independence Party ticket.

How New York City’s Latino politics are shifting

Global Politics

Former airport turned campground a hit in the Big Apple

Environment

Oscars Countdown!

Evacuating Red Hook

Summer In The Global Village: Afro-Punk Fest — Part One

Global Hit

The Afro-Punk Festival recently returned to Brooklyn, after being washed out by Hurricane Irene last year […]

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough

Historian  David McCullough  is known for his biographies of monumental American figures: John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman. But McCullough second book, published in 1972, explored American history not through the eyes of a Founding Father or a President, but through one of the most important public works projects of all time: the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough […]

The All-White World of ‘Girls’

“Girls,” written by and starring Lena Dunham, was initially the subject of overwhelming praise for telling the story of twenty-something New York females in a new way. Media outlets scrambled to nail down a Dunham interview. And we were lucky to be one of the shows to talk with her. But in the two weeks […]

Fans Remember Popular Haitian Musician Lénord Fortuné

Arts, Culture & Media

Fortuné was a popular virtuoso of traditional Haitian music and a tireless ambassador of Haitian culture.

The World

Restoring Prospect Park

Efforts are underway in Brooklyn, New York’s Prospect Park to replenish the soil erosion caused by its millions of visitors. Modern ecologists are using a variety of techniques to help optimize the growth and health of vegetation in this 526-acre tract. Neal Rauch reports from the Borough of Brooklyn.