Will a new Business Improvement District bring stability and support to East Harlem's placekeepers, or does it spell the end of community stewardship and power?

Urban infrastructures are transformed by crisis and ingenuity in three stories pulled from a newspaper of the future.

Over more than 20 years, an artist ferrying passengers through New York’s waterways in small boats has shared a unique vantage on an always-changing island city.

How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

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

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

What happens when artists embed within city government? For ten years, New York’s Public Artists in Residence have been building bridges and breaking down walls between the civic and the public.

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.

Multiple spins on an elaborate underwater-themed carousel reveal the importance of wonder in the public realm.