Location scouts have shaped representations of New York for decades. Now, changes to the film industry and the built environment both threaten a carefully cultivated way of seeing.

Over more than 20 years, an artist ferrying passengers through New York’s waterways in small boats has shared a unique vantage on an always-changing island city.

In a dense city, borders and barriers made of steel, concrete, and asphalt can create unexpected pockets of protection for habitat-starved plants and animals.

At the Black Zine Fair, now in its third year, the power of DIY publications as movement- and city-building technologies is on display.

How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

Contact with life’s sharper edges guides artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s quest to assist the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

New York was founded on industry. As e-commerce rewrites the supply chain, how are we protecting the small businesses left behind?

Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

How a Pakistani Rastafarian DJ in Germany came to lead a 25,000-member-strong New York City taxi workers union