Neighbourhood

May 11, 2024 | neighbourhoodpaper.com | Matthew Thompson |Jack Stanton |Ian Keldoulis

Cruising Madison Avenue is a supreme form of capitalist seduction. The retail equivalent of a Hollywood smile. Each luxury store is inviting, flawless, gleaming with a sparkle or two. Only now, some teeth are missing. Vacancies are staying that way, often for years, the city’s face looks haggard. This retail rot is a new form of urban blight. Rust Belt towns with boarded-up Main Streets due to capital flight and evaporating jobs are easily understood.

May 10, 2024 | neighbourhoodpaper.com | John Dale |James Douglas |Justine Landis-Hanley

I appeared to be standing in the midst of a mass grave. The endless rows of cold, grey, concrete steles resemble a procession of coffins waiting to be tucked under their national flags.  It was winter, and the melting snow left tear streaks down the sides of their faces. Some stood defiantly upright like sentries awaiting orders; others seem to have succumbed to their fate of being swallowed by the earth.

Nov 9, 2020 | neighbourhoodpaper.com | Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Jan 9, 2019 | neighbourhoodpaper.com | Helen Razer

Nov 25, 2018 | neighbourhoodpaper.com | Evan Hughes