Alexandra Lange

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned to offer citywide baby boxes, a free care package program for expectant NYC mothers. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams already paved the way.

In a new exhibit, architects imagine radical designs to fit more living arrangements, from empty nesters and housemates to multigenerational families.

Advocates are pushing for recognition of hundreds of segregation-era schools built by Booker T. Washington and Sears owner Julius Rosenwald.

Aiming for a merger of celebrity and community, the monolithic tower stands as a contradictory, even off-putting symbol of Barack Obama’s presidency.

Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the playground at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will be one of its most accessible features.

Just as with the bicentennial in 1976, official events for the 250th anniversary of the US can’t measure up to locally organized exhibits, parades and commemorations.

Three restored beach pavilions, all artifacts of the Robert Moses era, offer modern takes on the New Deal promise of accessible leisure.