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Swimming Ahead

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

Where Can the Public Bathrooms Go in New York City?

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.

Painter of Modern Life

The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.

God's Garage

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Landscape Orientation

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

Four and a Half Gasoline Stations

As redevelopment and electrification push them into the realm of history, unexpected social patterns still reveal themselves at the pumps.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Industrial Succession: Powerhouse Arts

Another Green Appearance

Architectural adaptations create space for prayer for New York City's growing Muslim communities, transforming townhouses and apartments into more sacred precincts.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Grassroots Biorepair: Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Cleaning Up?

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