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Documentary
Tune In: Soundscapes of New York
Composer and acoustician Anne Guthrie explores our fraught relationship with urban sounds and takes us on twelve sonic explorations of the city.
Rings of Refuge: The Boxing Gym in a Shrinking City
Sociologist Lucia Trimbur explains how the urban gym acts as an informal means of reentry for formerly incarcerated men of color facing a complex web of parole requirements and diminished opportunity.
A Scheme on a Bluff: The View from Todt Hill Houses
In the third article in our Typecast series, Brad Fox travels to Staten Island's Todt Hill Houses and reminds us that amid debates on how design and policy can produce environments of opportunity, people are what ultimately make a place.
Metropolitan Avenue: Community, Then and Now
In a filmmaker's depiction of a diverse, family-oriented Williamsburg community, viewers are served ingredients that commingle to form a lingering sense of loss.
Montage City: Edge Conditions
Three student videos investigate borders and urban transitions along 58th Street in Manhattan, aboard the Staten Island Ferry, and within the Hub in the Bronx.
Brooklyn Gentrification on Screen
Two new films each offer a look at a decade of change in Brooklyn.
Atlas Obscura
Dylan Thuras explains the story behind an online compendium of weird and wondrous places, reflecting on the nature of exploration, discovery and wonder.
Appreciating the City: Steve Duncan's Undercity
Don't mind me, I'm just holding a large crowbar while standing near a sewer entrance in the middle of the night.
MyBlockNYC
Two of the co-founders of an innovative “video map” of New York discuss personal expression, urban exploration and the civic possibilities of video.