There’s a brand new map for your summer wanders! I worked on the Modernist New York Map with Blue Crow Media that guides you to over 50 sites across the five boroughs, from sleek skyscrapers to futuristic churches, and has beautiful photographs by Jason Woods. It was fun to do the writing and research for this and consider the city from the point of view of its 1930s-60s era of design with all its glass curtains and sculptural concrete. I made a lot of discoveries I was previously unaware of, like work by New York’s first licensed Black architect Vertner Woodson Tandy, and the Transportation Building in Brooklyn that I always overlooked as kind of drab but turns out was once on the cutting edge of design.

This is my fourth (!) map with Blue Crow Media, following Concrete New York, Art Deco New York, and Great Trees of New York, and you can get them all in an NYC set. May they encourage you to explore the world near you!