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.

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

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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