Neighborhood

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

In Sunset Park, a community-owned solar garden promises a new kind of security for long-time residents, and a new life for the industrial waterfront.

As local newspapers dwindle, an artist revives New York’s classic newsstand to collect and circulate more diverse stories about immigration.

This is what democracy looks like: not only public squares, but office buildings. In the Lower East Side, the Peace Pentagon was the source point for four decades of resistance.

Over a decade in his Queens neighborhood, a photographer sees constant change.

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

People returning to city life after time in prison will soon be able to find help at some branch libraries. How can designers help librarians create life-saving connections?

People trying to stay connected to their loved ones in New York's jails and prisons must travel great distances and navigate intimidating rules and requirements.

As police personnel and machinery have settled into New York City schools, the line between school discipline and criminal punishment has become blurry.