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Queens
From Creek to Fountain
Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.
Can’t We Have Both?
A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.
A Question About Tomorrow
As goes Ravenswood, so goes New York’s energy future. So what will it take to bring a just transition to the city’s largest power plant?
Permanent Resident
The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, secure home in the city.
Neither Here Nor There
Globally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?
A Tentative Rollout
Shared e-scooter services around the city's edges are a first step in the long road to micromobility.
A Living Painting
Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?
Long Island is Bugging Me
A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.
Queens Close Up
A half century of immigration has continuously layered new urban forms on an otherwise unremarkable landscape.