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Waterways

Tide and Current

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.

City Habitats

Infrastructure Enclaves

In a dense city, borders and barriers made of steel, concrete, and asphalt can create unexpected pockets of protection for habitat-starved plants and animals.

City Habitats

Waste Watering Holes

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

New City Critics

From Creek to Fountain

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

On Island Time

As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?

The Green Shift

A Fishmonger

A seafood purveyor builds a sustainable business amidst rising and heating oceans and insatiable demand.

Landscape Orientation

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

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Interspecies Collaboration: Community Oyster Reef at Coney Island Creek

Cleaning Up?

Unlikely Attractions

In works from digital dérives to a floating opera, artists bring new perspectives to New York City's most damaged environments.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Redistribution: Hudson River Superfund Site