When it comes to trends in design, real estate, and urbanism, New York City is often a bellwether for the country as a whole. As “The City” goes, so too go the nation’s cities, if you will. To highlight this special status, for the month of October, Archinect is placing its Spotlight on the New York Metropolitan Region, America’s most populous urban agglomeration, and home to some of the country’s largest, costliest, and most complex architecture and infrastructure projects currently underway. 

In conjunction with the city’s annual Architecture and Design Month (Archtober) celebrations, we will embark on a deep dive into what’s going on across the New York City metropolitan area, extending our focus across the city’s five boroughs and over into adjacent areas in New Jersey, Connecticut, and lower New York State. Along the way, we will profile some of the region’s most exciting firms, check-in with architecture school deans, and highlight the area’s most interesting projects. 

The focus allows us to bring our Job Board, Deans List, Studio Snapshot, Fellow Fellows series into alignment while also helping to shed light on a region’s architecture schools, its cultural institutions, and some of the salient employment and salary-related issues New York City architects work through as a matter of practice. 

To get started, here are a few links to recent Archinect stories covering the goings-on across the region:

• Archtober 2019 starts tomorrow! Our Must-Do Picks for Week 1 (Oct. 1–8)
• Calling all junior architects and designers! Here are 9 New York-based firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs
• World's tallest residential building tops out in New York City
• Architects lobby for bird-friendly glass as NYC overhauls cladding regulations
• New York City has a $54 billion blueprint for fixing the subways

In September, Archinect focused its Spotlight on Chicago, coinciding with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. 

• Architecture critics take on the Chicago Architecture Biennial (and each other)
• Check out this time-lapse of RAMSA's 70-story Chicago tower
• Challenging Normalcy and Bringing Value to the Mundane with Architect Paul Preissner
• Fellow Fellows: Anne Dessing
• Searching for a job opportunity in Chicago? Here are 9 architecture firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs

While back in August, the Spotlight on Detroit kicked off our regional focus.

• Deans List: University of Detroit Mercy's Dan Pitera and the Three Questions That Drive His Career
• EXTENTS on the Importance of Being Earnest, Contemporary Urbanism, and the Digital World
• The City That Could: Understanding Detroit Through Inclusive Design and Public Policy
• Architect Kimberly Dowdell uses her hometown of Detroit as a catalyst for teaching equitable urban design practices
• Emily Helen Butterfield, Michigan's first female architect

Keep a lookout for the Spotlight on the New York Metropolitan Region tag over the month of October to check-in on what’s happening across the region. In November, Archinect will head west and focus its Spotlight on Seattle, one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing regions in the country.