With school buildings ill-equipped to face the climate crisis, students advocate for retrofits and greener, healthier buildings.

For fifteen years and counting at a free people's urbanism school in Orange, New Jersey, the city itself is a university, and a university is an advocate for community repair.

Organizers in Flatbush are fighting for the preservation of an African burial ground — to honor the dead, and protect a living community's future.

In co-located schools, sharing isn't just a lesson for the students. How do educators balance their institution’s needs with those of their neighbors?

When vastly different institutions are located in the same building, do students learn how to share, or how the city is profoundly unfair?

For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.

From small and ubiquitous markers to massive bespoke steel numerals, this longstanding Greenpoint signage company helps New Yorkers navigate the city.

For an equal shot at competitive sports in New York City public high schools, students and teachers fight to untangle the knot of race and space.

When it comes to building schools, a little-known entity with radical roots has had an outsize effect on the city’s skyline. How can the Educational Construction Fund adapt an experimental ethos to changing times?

As police personnel and machinery have settled into New York City schools, the line between school discipline and criminal punishment has become blurry.