Neighborhood
City of Stories: A Conversation with Constance Rosenblum
Veteran journalist Constance Rosenblum reflects on a career spent highlighting individual voices to tell the story of New York.
Toward a Stronger Social Infrastructure: A Conversation with Eric Klinenberg
Eric Klinenberg explains the complexities and importance of neighborhood networks and community spaces and discusses the opportunities they present to designers and urbanists.
El Timbiriche: Designing for Wellness in Williamsburg's Southside
Farzana Gandhi, Anusha Venkataraman, and Gabriela Alvarez explain the motivations behind and the design for a mobile health and wellness unit, sharing how the project can use a community's traditions to help solve some contemporary challenges.
The Wooden House Project: A Walk Through South Slope
Elizabeth Finkelstein takes us on a tour of some of the oldest houses in Brooklyn and shares the history often buried beneath layers of vinyl siding.
Paths to Pier 42
Hester Street Collaborative's Anne Frederick and Dylan House discuss a temporary pop-up public space on the Lower East Side that creates an asset for the neighborhood while informing and building momentum for the design of a future permanent park.
St. George, Staten Island
In the last of a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts around the five boroughs, Summer Brennan explores the existing cultural community in St. George, Staten Island, and plans to encourage and capitalize on it to create "a high visibility gateway for cultural activity in Staten Island."