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Mesmerizing Photos Of Gowanus Canal Capture The Strange Beauty of Pollution

So toxic, so beautiful.
Priscilla Frank

War As Pretty Heck: A Conversation with David Shields About War Is Beautiful

David Shields' collage attack on the New York Times--War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict--is, quite simply, required reading.
Davis Schneiderman

Photos Chronicling Three Generations Of Women Will Make You Call Mom

And your sister. And your grandma.
Priscilla Frank

Food + Drink: Made in Brooklyn

Who knew? I've lived, shopped and written thirteen cookbooks in our Park Slope brownstone, and thought I knew this trendiest of boroughs pretty well. Now along comes a vibrant and user-friendly compendium called Made in Brooklyn.
Rozanne Gold

PHOTOS: NYC's Disappearing Laundromats

The Snorri Bros.-- two Icelanders, Eiður Snorri and Snorri Sturluson-- decided to focus their lens on these almost ubiquitous

PHOTOS: Amazing Portraits Of An Edgy 1980s Times Square

Photographer Bill Butterworth came to New York from Australia in 1964 at the age of 24. In 1983, he focused his lens on the