Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

“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.’”

Reconsidering one of New York City’s most contested infrastructures through new photography and oral histories that focus on the experiences of the people and places touched by it, our exhibition is on view at the Bronx River Art Center from September 26 through November 9.

In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.

A rare combination of collective art project, community celebration, and environmental protest, the Hunts Point Fish Parade honors residents of the Bronx neighborhood and mobilizes them in the fight for its future.

In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.

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.

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.

Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.

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.