Justin Davidson has been New York Magazine’s architecture and classical-music critic since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.
Rebuilding After FireIt’s not enough to fireproof a single home. How can a community raise its odds of survival?
opera review
An Aida That Tries to Apologize for Itself“Michael Mayer’s new staging for the Met had me wondering how soon someone would roll the stone slab back and let my people go home.”
street view
Imagining a City of WoodMass timber could revolutionize construction, if only New York would embrace it. We commissioned four projects to show what it can do.
Larry Silverstein Outlasted EveryoneThere’s a lot of see-I-was-right-ness in his new memoir about rebuilding the World Trade Center — and often he was.
The Streets of Pre–New YorkThe New-York Historical Society shows the city through its earliest maps — and it remains, if faintly, recognizable in ours.
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