How the Dream of Regional Governance in New York Faded—and Why It Still Matters

Revisiting the Ghosts of an Unfinished Vision There are places around the New York metropolitan region where silence does the talking. Rusting rail spurs cling to the edges of shuttered factories, vestiges of a once-thriving industrial engine. Overgrown lots remain stubbornly vacant, testament to ambitious housing projects that never broke ground. Even the highways, conceived […]