Infrastructure

The removal of a public art installation by Maya Lin to make way for a better, brighter Penn Station portends a growing denial of the precarity of human passage through time and space.

There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

A community-led initiative offers a low-cost alternative to corporate internet service providers. How far can their team of volunteers expand the network?

As redevelopment and electrification push them into the realm of history, unexpected social patterns still reveal themselves at the pumps.

Meet the 2022 fellows in a program to empower new and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.

In an unlikely design magazine, New Jersey’s thickly settled geography provides a guide to divining the metropolis of the future.

LinkNYC failed to deliver on its promise of “bridging the digital divide.” Now, the streetside Wi-Fi kiosks are about to be souped up and supersized as 5G-transmitting towers. But is there any guarantee that New York’s under-resourced populations won’t get left behind, again?

Through a new, interactive podcast, an artist surfaces the intimate stories and complex connections that bind New York City residents to the land and people who provide their water.

An audio archivist documents the evolution of pirate radio in Brooklyn and its place in the cultural landscapes of the borough's immigrant communities.