Banners Over Our Streets, or Roofs Over Their Heads? Part Three — What honor looks like when it costs something EDITING The clearing. Banners over roads, or roofs over their heads? For two installments I argued … […]
Month: June 2026
Honor or Obligation
Part 2: Whose Speech? The argument as I imagine a court might hear it The thorny thicket. Yesterday I made the citizen’s case: that a program in which the City chooses whose service to honor on the public way cannot be the neutral tribute it claims to be. The City will not answer that as […]
Honor and Obligation
Part 1: Whose Hero? What the Hometown Heroes campaign asks a city to decide Today I wade into a thorny thicket. There is a clearing on the other side. With any luck I’ll get there unscathed. photograph © NIA Photograph and image manipulation: Michael Lebron © NIA A Newburgh council member has proposed that the […]
Where Broadway Flows
The Planning Board rules on “2 Washington Street“ The “2 Washington Street” site, looking toward the Hudson. Photo, © NIA It’s late Tuesday afternoon. I am at my home office, struggling with my latest essay with the working title “Architecture, Authoritarianism and Democracy”. It is the densest thing I have written since I started writing […]
