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Ecology

Tide and Current

Over more than 20 years, an artist ferrying passengers through New York’s waterways in small boats has shared a unique vantage on an always-changing island city.

City Habitats

Infrastructure Enclaves

In a dense city, borders and barriers made of steel, concrete, and asphalt can create unexpected pockets of protection for habitat-starved plants and animals.

City Habitats

Waste Watering Holes

Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

City Habitats

Nooks and Crannies

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

City Habitats

The Reefs Beneath the Piers

Where maritime industry once thrived, and where a tunnel was thwarted, New York’s submarine species make homes in the shadow of waterfront development.

New City Critics

From Creek to Fountain

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

New City Critics

Queer Comfort

Plants in a Staten Island garden — and the communities that sustain them — bloom in genders beyond binaries.

Networked Nursery

Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.

New City Critics

Long Island is Bugging Me

A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.

In Absentia

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.