In the 1970s, a wave of arson caused widespread damage to the Bronx and the tenants who called it home. What brought a decade of fire to an end?

What is the path forward to contend with historic and contemporary harms of urban highways across the country, and to honor the needs and desires of contemporary residents? Insights from a conversation on the Cross Bronx, the BQE, and the road to more just transportation infrastructures.

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.

To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

The new Queens headquarters of Make the Road New York is designed as a beacon for its working-class, immigrant community. The story of the building closely tracks larger struggles to make a stable, secure home in the city.

No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.

Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.