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Arts
Under Annihilation’s Sign: Public Memory and Prospect Park’s Battle Pass
On the 238th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova delve into the ways its history is embedded in Prospect Park and explore different notions of how we memorialize tragedy.
A Commons of Unwanted Things
Presenting the winner of our Common Shares writing competition: Frederica Hill sifts through what her neighbors discard to find her own place in the city.
Odyssey Works: The City for an Audience of One
What if a hundred people came together to create a weekend of experiences engineered specifically for you? Architect and writer Abraham Burickson discusses the performance collective he co-founded and the ways we ascribe profound meaning to place.