Ground Floor
Henry GrabarNotes from street level
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Construction loopholes, snuff films, the railway journey
Detail from Gustave Caillebotte’s Pont de l’Europe, from the Art Institute of Chicago show.
It’s hard to believe I put in a decade-plus of writing about transportation before hearing about Freud’s theory on trains and arousal. But I had no...
The Revolutionary War at 250, Chicago's public transit crisis, why Trump is obsessed with an ice skating rink
We all know that Paul Revere lit lanterns in the belltower to indicate the British were coming—“one if by land, two if by sea.” But when Longfellow wrote “two if by sea,” he was referring to British troops crossing between Boston and Cambri...
Building codes, "abundance," federal property, congestion pricing, sanctuary cities
You’ve heard of Nonstandard McDonald’s. Say hello to Nonstandard Popeyes.
For years, social media addicts have debated the contours of the “posting-to-policy pipeline,” the process by which, if you keep blabbing about your niche obsession...
There's a lot of food down there
Someone told me that the presidential historian David McCullough once tried to write a book about Picasso. Contract signed, he got down to business and soon learned he just didn’t like the guy, certainly not enough to spend a few years with...
A train ride home, secrets of Bogotá, leaded gasoline
Happy holidays and hello from Manhattan, where there was snow on the ground in Washington Square Park on Christmas Eve for the first time in many years. I’ve been reading Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City and I’m blown away by his lyrical...
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Henry Grabar is a journalist in Boston. He writes the Metropolis column for Slate, and was the author Paved Paradise (2023) and the editor of The Future of Transportation (2019).
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