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
Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). More about Dutchess House No. 1 by Grzywinski + Pons
Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). More about Writer's Studio by Cooper Joseph Studio
Dezeen Wire: the trail of Brooklyn designer Takeshi Miyakawa, who was arrested for "planting false bombs" while assembling an outdoor lighting installation in New York, has been adjourned. More about Trial of "false bomb" designer adjourned
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
Figures appear as ghostly silhouettes behind the translucent white fabric that partitions these New York offices by architects SO-IL. More about Logan Offices by SO-IL
Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. More about Designer arrested for "planting false bombs" in New York
The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL. More about Frieze Art Fair NYC by SO-IL
Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. More about Marina Abramović Institute by OMA