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?

As a generation of queer pioneers reaches old age, new models of housing and community space leverage design to meet their needs.

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.

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

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?

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

New spaces for justice replace punishment with problem solving and hierarchy with community.

For Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.

Emily Schmidt spins the origin story of the affordable row house in the 1980s, when pastors and businessmen sowed scorched earth with rows of new homes.

Junior architect Zulmilena Then, our second featured People Mover, is on a mission to preserve East New York’s history in the face of speculation.