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The article reports on the migrant crisis in New York City and traces the problem to the actions taken, and not taken, by the administration of Mayor Eric Adams. It informs about the no-bid contracts signed by the city with vendors that have been accused of abusing migrants, as well as the solutions to shelter migrants such as hotels and cruise ships. It discusses the problem with the city's call for work authorization and its neglect of services to help migrants move out of shelters faster.

Describes the tent nursery built by a Manhattan, New York couple in their apartment for their child.

The article offers information regarding "The Encampment," an installation of 100 19th-century-style tents by Thom Sokoloski. The tents represent the patients who lived in a smallpox hospital in Roosevelt Island, New York City. Sokoloski partnered with choreographer Jenny-Anne McCowan and composer John McDowell.

The article focuses on the purchase by artist Joshua Rechnitz of the Gowanus Canal space in Brooklyn in New York City in early May 2012 for $7 million. It says that the space or the Batcave will become a home for his growing art collection and artists' studios. Moreover, Rechnitz has been mysterious and never appeared in public to discuss the plan and has declined all requests for interviews.

The article reports on the recurrent scenes along the 26.2-mile course of the New York City Marathon held on November 4, 2012 that makes the runners upset. It notes that the streets are lined with vehicles stuck in a gasoline traffic jam. However, many runners continue and complete the entire unofficial race. Among the event's participants are Adam Kushner, Oliver Wigniolle, and Michael McNerney.

After previously pitching its lavishly decorated tent at the South Street Seaport, the traveling troupe Spiegelworld will be moving uptown for a 15-week summer engagement with a new work, ''Empire.'' The show will display Spiegelworld's circus, cabaret and burlesque acts in a 440-seat tent, which will be erected on West 45th Street, near Eighth Avenue. Previews are set to begin May 22, with opening night scheduled for May 31. Tickets can be purchased at (212) 239-6200 or telecharge.com. This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Emergency-service trucks rumbled up Broadway to positions on two sides of Zuccotti Park. Powerful klieg lights blinked on, illuminating about 220 protesters in tents and sleeping bags. The one-square-block plaza was as bright as day. But it was only 1 a.m. Voices of the police, booming from loudspeakers, echoed through the financial district. Officers swept through the park, picking their way around tents and over sleeping bags, handing out leaflets. Dozens of protesters linked arms and shouted ''This is our home,'' ''Barricade!'' and, in one case, ''You're stepping on my bed!'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The police began showing up by the hundreds just after midnight. Scores of officers arrived in vehicles that had been staging over by the Brooklyn Bridge but were now at Zuccotti Park. They surrounded the encampment of tents and tarps and booths that the Occupy Wall Street protesters had built and lived in for nearly two months. The police ringed the park and set up bright klieg lights, and protesters emerged bewildered out of their tents. Some blew whistles, others urged calm and still others warned each other: ''It's happening.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For nearly a decade, a large white tent has stood on Manhattan's East Side, out of urban context and hard against the sooty Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. A gauzy drapery divides the tent space: on one side, a quiet makeshift chapel; on the other, three walk-in storage units containing nearly 14,000 human remains from the World Trade Center catastrophe, air-dried and vacuum-sealed. Several rounds of DNA-based tests have failed to identify about 9,000 of the remains. The rest have been identified but not claimed, for all sorts of reasons; for example, some families have already buried parts of their loved ones, and cannot bear to do it again, and again. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since June 2007, a 37-foot-high, saddle-shaped polyester-and-aluminum tent -- far more graceful to behold than it sounds -- has been the public face of the World Trade Center project. The tent shelters the Church Street staircase at the temporary PATH terminal. This was to close at midnight Friday to permit construction of the permanent transportation hub. The tent will not be discarded. But it will disappear. Its replacement is already in place: a boxy structure on Vesey Street that will serve PATH until 2011. Though it is less exposed to the elements, it is also the most utilitarian of the three temporary PATH entrances that have been built at ground zero since 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Opinion. Relates the author's experience setting up his tent in the Arthur Ross Garden for exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. The exhibition of 10 sleeping and camping tents called `Do-It-Yourself Architecture for the Great Outdoors'; The tent's design wisdom; Photographs of some of the tents.