Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

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

What is the path forward to contend with historic and contemporary harms of urban highways across the country, and to honor the needs and desires of contemporary residents? Insights from a conversation on the Cross Bronx, the BQE, and the road to more just transportation infrastructures.

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.

In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.

A neighborhood advocate marshals data and organizes neighbors to make congested Midtown streets safe for pedestrians.

Creating 3,000 more places to go can be transformative for people's dignity and the quality of the public realm. But actually implementing a citywide restroom network requires solutions that address each neighborhood's specific needs.

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

A 1.3-mile-long pedestrian promenade in Queens is a lodestar for planners, a lifeline for many residents, and an albatross to others.