Architectural historian Gabrielle Esperdy takes us on a journey from the Manhattan Bridge to Jamaica Bay, revealing the layers of urban history in one of Brooklyn's oldest and most important streets.

Who would vote to replace their neighborhood playground with a sewage treatment plant? But what about finding a “third way” between the extremes of destruction and fossilization, of megalomania and retrenchment.

Into an atmosphere of Moses disfavor and a nascent, outspoken preservation movement entered modernist Paul Rudolph. It is through his drawings that the Lower Manhattan Expressway has come to life. An exhibit at Cooper Union, organized by the Drawing Center, provides a much-needed reminder of Rudolph’s breadth of vision for Lower Manhattan.

FASLANYC visits Floyd Bennett Field and finds an example of park use that references the site’s unique history and demonstrates the changing nature of recreation.