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Swimming Ahead

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

A Closer Look: Across the Bronx

"The Cross Bronx is the catalyst for the Bronx history that drives my work as a documentarian of community. It’s this dichotomy of, 'I wish this was never here,' and 'I would miss it if it went away.'"

Networked Nursery

Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.

Sign Off

Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.

What Becomes a Legend Most?

A redeveloped Rockefeller Center draws tourists from around the globe as well as locals to a place that feels, surprisingly, authentically New York. How are its owners stewarding the storied complex into a second century?

Shelf Life

The Inside Story

Images of public housing interiors decorated with love and care preserve family memories and public history, and document style as an act of resistance.

Living Legend

To reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, and redress damage it has wrought for generations, we have to see the corridor clearly as it is today.

In Absentia

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

Queens Close Up

A half century of immigration has continuously layered new urban forms on an otherwise unremarkable landscape.

Transit Oriented

New construction along elevated train lines brings an unprecedented degree of intimacy between private homes and workplaces and passengers in a 24-hour transit system.