Neighborhood

An indicator species in vinyl and metal, the streetside lockbox signals the rise of a short-term city.

By way of natural disaster and human folly, a staggering amount of marine debris litters the waters and shores of an important estuary habitat. Meet the volunteers trying to salvage the situation.

When vastly different institutions are located in the same building, do students learn how to share, or how the city is profoundly unfair?

For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.

Rather than extractive economic development, the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative cultivates a vision of home-grown wealth that stays in the borough.

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.