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Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings

Matilde Cassani discusses her archive and exhibition and what it reveals about the evolving relationship between religious praxis, cultural identity and urban life.

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A Walk Through Jackson Heights with Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta reflects on immigration, density and neighborhood change while wandering the Queens streets where he lived as a teenager.

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Field Trip: Aqueduct Flea Market

This week, the massive Flea Market that has operated in the north parking lot of the Aqueduct Racetrack for the past thirty years closed for the season, with considerable doubt as to whether or where it will re-open. Over decades, …

Bringing Basements to Code

Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.

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The Immigrants & Parks Collaborative

For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants.

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