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Shelf Life

Cataloging Comfort

A recently uncovered album reveals some of New York City parks' least exposed precincts — their public bathrooms.

Capturing Change

Nesting Season

Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.

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In Mott Haven, a building's true purpose hides behind facsimile stoops and windows.

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Architecture, art, and infrastructure once collided on this now vacant stretch in Coney Island.

The Location of Justice: Streets

Beacon / Bunker

Photographer Kris Graves tracks all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings — sometimes humble, sometimes imposing — for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood.

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A gas plant and five-star hotel scratch the surface of one Williamsburg block.

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Underwater and out of sight, electricity moves between boroughs through tunnels designed to weather the storm.

What's In a Roofline?

The humble gambrel roofs of Queens’ Dutch Colonial houses cover the borough’s complex history.

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Traces of a private water supply system, only recently decommissioned, extend across southeastern Queens.

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Hidden in Central Park, the remains of a 19th century reservoir that fell out of fashion.