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Michael Kimmelman

Michael Kimmelman

@kimmelman

Architecture critic and senior critic of The New York Times.

New York City · http://www.nytimes.com

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  1. 17h

    My Times piece on the late, great architectural photographer Ezra Stoller is online now:

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  2. 3 Feb

    Smart grid anyone?

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  3. 3 Feb

    . just aired a ad showing the NRA’s flip-flop on background checks: Please watch & RT

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  4. 3 Feb

    The indispensable crusader Ron Shiffman, who "has saved more NY neighborhoods than Robert Moses has destroyed":

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  5. 1 Feb

    Very cool: What NY, LA, Rio and other cities would look like if you could see the stars:

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  6. 1 Feb

    The centenary of Grand Central Terminal is a reminder of the value + glory of great public space -- and calamity of places like Penn Sta.

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  7. 1 Feb

    It does.

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  8. 1 Feb

    Mayor Koch and Comm. Davis initiated the revival of the city's park system. Restored a park or playground in every neighborhood.

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  9. 1 Feb

    All true; so we need architects, planners, enlightened developers + city officials willing to tackle entrenched patterns + laws.

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  10. 1 Feb

    There are many potential configurations + for some people, dorm model is highly appealing. Elder care often simulates a dorm.

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  11. 1 Feb

    Healthy or not, living solo is growing reality. More loneliness is pop sociology. Question is: how to design cities to serve social reality.

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  12. 1 Feb

    Understandable but misguided opposition to microunits sees throwback to Jacob Riis days. If done right, they're highly progressive + useful.

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  13. 1 Feb

    Koch instrumental in reviving burned out neighborhoods, adding 250,000 units of affordable housing to city. Helped turn around the S. Bronx.

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  14. 1 Feb

    New social realities demand new housing models: more affordable apartments for singles,w common spaces, adaptable layouts.

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  15. 29 Jan

    My Times piece, for tomorrow's front page, about the flawed NY Public Library plan is online now:

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  16. 27 Jan

    It is. And one of the most generous, considering.

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  17. 27 Jan

    Heartbreaking song about love and forgiveness:

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  18. 23 Jan

    Model microunit at @museumofnycity more expensively furnished than most people can afford, but it, and show, reinforce case for these apts.

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  19. 23 Jan

    Landmarks in Jackie days used to consider such larger cultural implications. Now it confines itself to the letter of law, at a cost.

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  20. 23 Jan

    That Landmarks, unsurprisingly,has approved the controversial NYPL plan to redo 42nd St shouldn't be nearly the end of the story.

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