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Waterways

On Island Time

As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?

The Green Shift

A Fishmonger

A seafood purveyor builds a sustainable business amidst rising and heating oceans and insatiable demand.

Landscape Orientation

An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Interspecies Collaboration: Community Oyster Reef at Coney Island Creek

Cleaning Up?

Unlikely Attractions

In works from digital dérives to a floating opera, artists bring new perspectives to New York City's most damaged environments.

Cleaning Up?

Remediation as Redistribution: Hudson River Superfund Site

Cleaning Up?

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

Posts from the Edge

Unfolding alongside New York's latest waterfront planning process, a participatory art project considers what happens when we reorient our attention, and our bodies, toward the city's 520 miles of coastline.

Castaways of Jamaica Bay

By way of natural disaster and human folly, a staggering amount of marine debris litters the waters and shores of an important estuary habitat. Meet the volunteers trying to salvage the situation.

In the Hudson's Image

For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.