Neighborhood

In the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, an architect and planner forges connections and fashions safety in fifteen neighborhoods.

Young residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn, look for safety amidst persistent poverty and crime, as well as community organizations determined to change the neighborhood's narrative.

Community boards promise local democracy, but it takes more to translate neighborhood visions into reality.

Photographer Kris Graves tracks all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings — sometimes humble, sometimes imposing — for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood.

Where can teenagers hang out and be safe in public?

The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?

How can the ephemeral and mutable geographies of queer urban life be mapped and preserved?

Many architects and urbanists are asking how their tools might be most effectively deployed in order to resist the violent oppression of marginalized communities, and how this effort might need to look different today than it has in the past.

Examining New York's overlooked infrastructures of crime and punishment.

Integration without gentrification? Self-determination without segregation? Who has the power to determine Harlem’s future?