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With rare exceptions, Australia still prefers to use architects based overseas for local public projects. Globalisation at work, or cultural cringe on a grand scale?

With rare exceptions, Australia still prefers to use architects based overseas for local public projects. Globalisation at work, or cultural cringe on a grand scale?

Doug and I first met John Fekner back in 2018, when the three of us were attending the Nuart Festival in the city of Stavanger, Norway. Johns unassum...

A local's guide to must-visit piers, parks, breweries, beaches, and more across NYC's boroughs.

The MTA's vision is for the largest expansion of mass transit in New York City since the first half of the 20th century.

The new line — dubbed the Interborough Express — would run along a 14-mile stretch of tracks between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights that until the 1920s were used for passenger trains, but are now only used for freight rail. Transit officials estimate it would serve up to 88,000 riders per day, and would only take 40 minutes to run from end to end.

To see a huge, open-ended car ferry in Vineyard Haven Harbor is normal. To see one in 1875, a full generation before the first automobiles arrived, was a spectacle. In mid-December 1875, the 234-foot transfer steamer Maryland appeared in Vineyard Haven Harbor, towed by the steam tug Cyclops. It was headed from Havre de Grace, […]

Do you drive over it or pass it almost every day? Do you really know much about it? Here are a few things to think about it the next time you are getting ready to drive across it:

The long-promised additions are part of the Penn Station Access Project that will run Metro-North trains on existing Amtrak’s rail lines in the East Bronx, across the Hell Gate Bridge and into Penn Station.

Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres on Sunday announced plans to introduce a bill this week to require the national railroad to adopt “the repair-in-place method for any track maintenance or rehabilitation.”