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Community Centers

New City Critics

Chisholm Town

A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.

New City Critics

The Shortest Ramp Is a Longer Road

A new Crown Heights bookshop is a cipher for conflicting feelings of ambivalence, betrayal, and belonging

Permanent Resident

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.

Everybody Should Be Honored

A rare combination of collective art project, community celebration, and environmental protest, the Hunts Point Fish Parade honors residents of the Bronx neighborhood and mobilizes them in the fight for its future.

Community House is There for You

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

Holding On to the Halo Effect

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.

Well-Placed

Minding the Gaps

Historic injustice and the traumas of the pandemic have had profound impacts on New Yorkers' mental health. What kind of spaces and policies can support wellbeing where it's hardest to find?

Trust Exercise

In Western Queens, activists see a waterfront warehouse as an opportunity to broaden the horizons of a community's control over its own future.

Cleaning Up?

Learning Environment

With origins in a massive underground oil spill, the new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center is seeding future generations of neighborhood activists.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Ongoing Process of Recovery and Repair: Bronx River House