Illustrator Natsko Seki (via visualingual).

Allan Tannenbaum of the SoHo Weekley News seems to have been everywhere in New York with his camara in the 1970s.

See the rest at SoHo Blues/Fotomundo, especially Mondo Art and Soho and Man and God and Law.

From Building Design Online: A Modern Way to Think About the Modernists.
Class and politics are inextricably bound up with how a modernist building is perceived. There is a general conviction that the working class were slotted into a world of concrete walkways and towers when all we ever wanted was the old back-to-backs, with perhaps [...]

Evan Gruzis at Deitch Projects, at DUVE Berlin, and  interviewed at Fecal Face.

London School of Economics Social Policy pamphlet collection on housing:
The pamphlet collection at the Library contains items on different aspects of housing including housing conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, housing policy and finance, the garden cities, urban reconstruction after the two World Wars, city and town planning and rent protest movements.
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Reece Jones 2008 Exhibition, Fatal Attempts at Re-Entry, at Simon Dickinson.
Reece Jones at re-title.com.
Reece Jones featured on Matthews The Younger.

Discovering Admiral’s Row: Documenting the Ruins of Admiral’s Row, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York.

Before Manhattan was graded and gridded it was Mannahatta, “land of many hills.”

The Mannahatta Project is a fascinating project, now book, and soon to be exhibit at the MCNY tracing the island of Manhattan back to it ecological origins.

New York Times Exhibition Review: Seafarers’ Memoirs, Written on Skin

Two great blogs for book lovers, both by the same fellow.
Books in New York catalogs the city’s array of book sellers and lenders. Below is Urban Center Books, which I hadn’t even heard of before coming across this blog; I’ll be paying it a visit in the very near future.

and Books at Home is a [...]