Transportation

A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.

More than just red paint and white text, political maneuvers and enforcement strategies are key elements in the design of the city’s bus lanes.

In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.

A neighborhood advocate marshals data and organizes neighbors to make congested Midtown streets safe for pedestrians.

Where demand is high and private infrastructure is scarce, the city seeks to squeeze in streetside charging for electric cars.

To reimagine the Cross Bronx Expressway, and redress damage it has wrought for generations, we have to see the corridor clearly as it is today.

New construction along elevated train lines brings an unprecedented degree of intimacy between private homes and workplaces and passengers in a 24-hour transit system.

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.

The removal of a public art installation by Maya Lin to make way for a better, brighter Penn Station portends a growing denial of the precarity of human passage through time and space.