“In New York City, you have slums, but they’re not visible,” Basar Girit, a partner at SITU Studio, tells Co.Design. “I think we wanted to bring that to people’s attention,” he says.

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890. Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images 2023-03-24T15:40:31Z ...

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Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the ...

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...