News: plans for an apartment block of stackable modules have won a design competition for "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of small homes in Manhattan (+ slideshow). More about New York's "micro-units" housing competition winners announced
News: UK firm Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to overhaul New York Public Library's flagship branch on Fifth Avenue by inserting a contemporary lending library into unused reading rooms and stacks at the back of the building. More about Foster + Partners unveils plans for New York Public Library
News: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will today lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the world's tallest modular building, a 32-storey residential tower in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards development by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects. More about World's tallest modular building breaks ground in New York
New York architects Studio Cadena placed three white boxes inside this industrial loft in Brooklyn to make bedrooms for three flatmates (+ slideshow). More about Three Small Rooms by Studio Cadena
Slideshow feature: this set of images by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan shows the scene in New York over the past week as the city recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy that swept across Manhattan last Monday, cutting the electricity and flooding the streets and subways. More about New York after the storm by Iwan Baan
News: WXY Architecture are the third and final studio with plans for the future of New York's Grand Central Terminal and have suggested a 380-metre skyscraper and a network of elevated cycling paths (+ slideshow). More about Third Grand Central Terminal proposal includes 380-metre skyscraper
News: while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York's Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). More about SOM proposes floating observation deck over Grand Central Terminal
News: architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled proposals to increase the capacity of New York's Grand Central Terminal by widening approach routes and pedestrianising streets (+ slideshow). More about Foster + Partners present vision for Grand Central Terminal
News: construction is set to recommence on 56 Leonard Street, a 250-metre-high residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and dubbed the "Jenga building". More about Work to restart on Herzog & de Meuron's stalled "Jenga building"
News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. More about Foster + Partners to build Park Avenue skyscraper for Lehman Brothers
News: Barclays Center, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena designed by SHoP Architects and AECOM, opens to the public in Brooklyn this weekend. More about Brooklyn's Barclays Center opens
Dezeen Wire: "the High Line has become a tourist-clogged catwalk and a catalyst for some of the most rapid gentrification in New York's history," says author Jeremiah Moss in an article published in the New York Times. More about "The High Line has become a tourist-clogged catwalk"- New York Times
Architects studioMDA have completed an aluminium-clad gallery in New York where all the artworks on show are visible from outside (photographs by Roland Halbe). More about Paul Kasmin Gallery, 27th Street by studioMDA
Dezeen Wire: work starts today on an affordable housing development in Harlem by architects Adjaye Associates More about Sugar Hill housing by Adjaye Associates
Dezeen Wire: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a competition to design "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan. More about New York seeks "micro-units" to solve housing shortage
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York's Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. More about Columbia University Medical Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). More about Wendy by HWKN
Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City (photographs by James Ewing/OTTO). More about Signature Center by Frank Gehry
Twenty-five thousand brown paper lunch bags line the wall and ceiling of OWEN, a new fashion boutique in New York's Meatpacking District by Jeremy Barbour of Brooklyn architects Tacklebox. More about OWEN by Tacklebox
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. More about House of Shoes by Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz