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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

Underexposed | 10

In Long Island City, stunted electrical poles mark some of the city's most contested real estate.

Underexposed

Underexposed | 9

In Mott Haven, a building's true purpose hides behind facsimile stoops and windows.

Underexposed

Underexposed | 8

Architecture, art, and infrastructure once collided on this now vacant stretch in Coney Island.

Underexposed

Underexposed | 7

A gas plant and five-star hotel scratch the surface of one Williamsburg block.

Underexposed

Underexposed | 6

Underwater and out of sight, electricity moves between boroughs through tunnels designed to weather the storm.

Underexposed

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.

Citymakers

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.

Rebecca Solnit at 5KL: Land