Hudson Yards is one of the newly renovated neighborhoods in Manhattan focused on modern urban life and biodiversity. It's located in the southwest side of Midtown between Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen and is home to a nu...

THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

2015.5.5　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

The Whitney Museum of American Art will be transferred to an area which is currently attracting a lot of attention for progressive redevelopment. I visited the museum that contained the history of American art, the cu...

THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM

2012.5.28　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

Calmness like japanese garden has. The Sculptures seem to be waiting to be interpreted. Away from the bustle of Manhattan in Long Island, Queens, The Noguchi Museum has a slow and relaxed atmosphere that is unique ...

DOPE JAMS RECORDS

2012.3.25　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

In New York City, major CD stores like HMV and Tower Records are all closed. If you prefer to purchase music in store, rather than on line you need to go to independent shops. It was impossible to think of this situat...

SHEA STADIUM

2011.11.29　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

I remember that sometime ago when you happened to be in New York and wanted to see an amazing concert you have a big offer every night in the city around Bowery, Lower East Side… and so on. Nowadays, when you go to N...

THE HIGH LINE

2009.7.21　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez

I still remember the day in 2002, while taking the subway with my friend Brendan Fitzgerald, he showed me one of the photographs he took on the High Line. It was a mesmerizing image of industrialist melancholy: a ...

THE DRAWING CENTER

2008.12.18　 Text: Garry Waller

I came across The Drawing Center by chance, one day walking down a small back street in Manhattan's Soho district I was instantly curious by it's name and wanted to find out more. As it turns out The Drawing Center is...

POWERHOUSE BOOKS

2008.8.28　 Text: Garry Waller

In 2006, PowerHouse Books, an independent publisher of art and photography books founded in 1995 opened it's doors to the waiting public. The result is a 10,200 square foot showroom and retail space that invites casua...

NEW MUSEUM

2008.5.19　 Text: Shane Johnston

A few years ago, the Bowery existed as a haphazard ménage of old New York City fire escapes, refurbished refrigerators and the poor souls that found themselves at the Bowery mission. It was hardly a posh neighborhood,...

MUJI SOHO

2008.3.29　 Text: Tetsuro Mise

Homegrown brand MUJI is now synonymous with a minimalistic design approach that is recognized as distinctly Japanese. MUJI features over 7,000 environmentally-friendly products which are rooted in practical innovation...

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

2007.8.28　 Text: Garry Waller

Until 1986 Socrates Sculpture Park was an abandoned strip of land in Queens that was used mainly for dumping illegal waste. The area surrounding the park is urban wasteland with mostly anonymous looking indust...

CONEY ISLAND

2005.11.4　 Text: Garry Waller

"Behind the innocent facade of fun, rides, shows and cotton candy are the powerful themes of fear, lust, abandon, adventure, irony, comedy, salvation, gluttony, mystery, pain, monsters, gambling, and voyeurism." - Quo...