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Brooklyn
Do You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.
It Takes a Village to Weather a Storm
In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.
Reentry: Start Here
People returning to city life after time in prison will soon be able to find help at some branch libraries. How can designers help librarians create life-saving connections?
House Proud
As a generation of queer pioneers reaches old age, new models of housing and community space leverage design to meet their needs.
Stronger Together
Young residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn, look for safety amidst persistent poverty and crime, as well as community organizations determined to change the neighborhood's narrative.
Underexposed | 8
Architecture, art, and infrastructure once collided on this now vacant stretch in Coney Island.
Siting Rikers' Replacements
The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?
Underexposed | 7
A gas plant and five-star hotel scratch the surface of one Williamsburg block.
The People's Court
New spaces for justice replace punishment with problem solving and hierarchy with community.
Underexposed | 3
For Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.