“Modern sport could have no clearer expression of the contempt in which its owner class holds ‘ordinary’ people.”
Amid Manchester City’s finance scandal, read Aaron Timms on Etihad Park, the team owner’s new stadium in Queens.

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“Modern sport could have no clearer expression of the contempt in which its owner class holds ‘ordinary’ people.”
Amid Manchester City’s finance scandal, read Aaron Timms on Etihad Park, the team owner’s new stadium in Queens.
One thing though: The whole convo parallels this great @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece from @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social last year so much that I kept waiting for them to mention it and they never did, so here it is: nyra.nyc/articles/wre...
An eternal 2011 reigns in the minds of the pathological optimists in charge of the American landscape. Each new coastal eco-folly reminds us that nobody has yet imagined an appropriate form for the contested commons of the 2020s—let alone the next decade. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
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Jo Livingstone visits the Rockaway Ocean Club at Riis Beach in NYRA no. 51.
“Plus Pool’s boosters have presented its origin as a sort of chill parthenogenesis—a concept springing fully formed from the doldrums of 2010’s record-breaking New York summer.”
James Andrew Billingsley is too cool for Plus Pool in NYRA no. 51.
"Because the new building so conservatively and so discouragingly confines itself to everything that you’ve ever seen before from OMA, it occasions a long look back."
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Audrey Wollen reviews PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: MICHAEL SORKIN’S NEW YORK (@columbiagsapp.bsky.social) in NYRA no. 51.
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