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Queens

 

Open City: Blogging Urban Change Sahar Muradi

Open City: Blogging Urban Change Peggy Lee

 

Open City: Blogging Urban Change Christiana Baik

 

Open City: Blogging Urban Change Jerome Chou

Open City: Blogging Urban Change Deanna Fei

A Walk Through Jackson Heights with Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta reflects on immigration, density and neighborhood change while wandering the Queens streets where he lived as a teenager.

The Candela Structures: Architecture as Storytelling

Kirsten Hively visits the Candela Structures, relics of the 1964/5 World’s Fair, and encourages us to investigate the stories behind our city’s forgotten structures and spaces.

Skating Pier 62 and Corona Park

A designer and skater tests two new skate parks.

Archipelago

This original Urban Omnibus-produced video explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea.

Bringing Basements to Code

Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.