Infrastructure

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

Amazon’s logistical network is as extensive as it is abstruse. To get a sense of its scale, we reconstruct the regional distribution system, one order at a time.

The MTA’s latest military-inspired tactics to curb fare evasion may be fighting the wrong enemy.

A high-volume transfer station, a model municipal soil bank, and a cutting-edge soil washer: Three area sites illustrate the values, costs, and benefits that shape the flow of recycled soil in and around the city.

What is the path forward to contend with historic and contemporary harms of urban highways across the country, and to honor the needs and desires of contemporary residents? Insights from a conversation on the Cross Bronx, the BQE, and the road to more just transportation infrastructures.

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.