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A NYRA × Vitsœ  Architecture Walking Tour with Laura del Pino

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NYRA × Vitsœ Architectural Walking Tours

Join NYRA contributors on walking tours around Greenwich Village during our office takeover of Vitsœ’s New York showroom. There are limited spots available for each tour and we anticipate they will sell out. Register and see all of them below:

Join us next week as New York Review of Architecture takes over Vitsœ’s New York showroom. For five days, NYRA will transform the Greenwich Village space into our office and pop-up holiday shop.Stop by to meet NYRA staff and snag a copy of our latest issue, some sweet merch, and designed objects perfect for holiday gift-giving. Throughout the week, NYRA contributors will lead architectural walking tours of the Village that situate the enduring legacy of Jane Jacobs, excavate bygone buildings and infrastructure, and retrace the steps of Gilded Age reformers. Tour description: North of SoHo, the city once opened into an urban archipelago of service stations, repair shops, and garages known as Gasoline Alley. Its fragments shaped the daily choreography of the neighborhood: trucks idling at the curb, taxis cutting across irregular lots, mechanics working in narrow bays carved out by earlier street widenings. Almost all of it is gone now. This walk traces what remains of that landscape and what replaced it, moving from the lingering service edges of Lafayette Street to the last gas station downtown at 51–63 Eighth Avenue. As we follow these ghost infrastructures, we examine how land value, mobility, and taste conspire to erase “messier” urban spaces, and how their disappearance renders the city more palatable—smoothed, curated, and increasingly detached from the frictions that once animated it. About the guide: <a href="https://nyra.nyc/people/laura-del-pino" title="https://nyra.nyc/people/laura-del-pino" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Laura del Pino</a> is an architect, educator, and researcher investigating the spatial, infrastructural, and ecological forces shaping contemporary urban environments. She is an adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology and Kean University. This walk draws from her essay published in Urban Omnibus, “<a href="https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/04/four-and-a-half-gasoline-stations/" title="https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/04/four-and-a-half-gasoline-stations/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Four and a Half Gasoline Stations</a>.”

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