Contact with life’s sharper edges guides artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s quest to assist the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

New York was founded on industry. As e-commerce rewrites the supply chain, how are we protecting the small businesses left behind?

Up a marble staircase, in the attic of City Hall, a trio of civil servants steward an eclectic archive of city objects.

Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

In the shadow of the Flatiron, a writer spends an hour conducting her own public space audit.

Ordering pad thai on an iPad in the muzak of a takeout food chain created in the pressure cooker of the post-pandemic economy.

With a fragment of the Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower preserved for posterity, a MoMA exhibition provides more than one perspective on planned obsolescence.

Posting the experiences of shelter residents and staff in the public realm, artist Alex Strada creates a walking meditation on the right to housing.

A contemporary "bathhouse" draws on ancient traditions to heighten experience, but is untethered from the more convivial aspects of bathing culture.

The MTA’s latest military-inspired tactics to curb fare evasion may be fighting the wrong enemy.