TOPIC
Energy
Illuminated Futures
The city that never sleeps depends on 396,572 street lights. As bright white LEDs replace the familiar amber glow, what does tomorrow (night) hold?
Underexposed | 10
In Long Island City, stunted electrical poles mark some of the city's most contested real estate.
Underexposed | 9
In Mott Haven, a building's true purpose hides behind facsimile stoops and windows.
Underexposed | 8
Architecture, art, and infrastructure once collided on this now vacant stretch in Coney Island.
Underexposed | 7
A gas plant and five-star hotel scratch the surface of one Williamsburg block.
Underexposed | 6
Underwater and out of sight, electricity moves between boroughs through tunnels designed to weather the storm.
Underexposed | 2
For Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.
Ted Nabavi Turns Hazards to Riches
The chemist who monitors gas and liquids produced by the world's largest landfill touts the benefits of harvesting environmental hazards and the monitoring system with aviation roots that gives him eyes across thousands of acres.
A More Resilient Neighborhood, Just Beyond the Grid
Aaron Reiss dives into Beyond the Grid, an ambitious plan underway in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Lower Manhattan to create a more resilient, connected, and sustainable Lower East Side by fusing heating, power, and communications infrastructures.