For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Drinking water is all around us, but just out of reach. Can simple tweaks to the city’s emergency infrastructure radically expand access to this precious resource?

Buildings are responsible for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. Can tenants, landlords, and environmentalists finally get together to make them more efficient?

Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation.

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?

With New York City on the verge of reorganizing the private sanitation industry, union organizer Allan Henry connects the dots between street safety, worker rights, and environmental impacts.

People trying to stay connected to their loved ones in New York's jails and prisons must travel great distances and navigate intimidating rules and requirements.