Neighborhood

New York City's only adventure playground is a beloved destination. But it's also a proposition to make room for free play across the city, from street to schoolyard.

Creating 3,000 more places to go can be transformative for people's dignity and the quality of the public realm. But actually implementing a citywide restroom network requires solutions that address each neighborhood's specific needs.

Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.

The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.

After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.

What kind of bank can help secure New York neighborhoods' future? The same small banks that have been doing it all along.

As faith-based institutions struggle with a litany of real estate woes, the non-profit Bricks and Mortals is here to help find theologically-sound solutions.

Navigating multiple identities, homes, and professional cultures, where can Black urbanists locate an authentic, creative practice?

It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.

Where can queer and trans community flourish, if not at Riis Beach? Yet current plans for its future don't account for the people it has sustained for decades.