Photographs of Prospect Park’s unsanctioned constructions simultaneously suggest traces of past settlement and the start of a new civilization. Behind the scenes is a struggle for ecological succession among salamanders, kindergartners, and park management.

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.

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?

People trying to stay connected to their loved ones in New York's jails and prisons must travel great distances and navigate intimidating rules and requirements.

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

When safe space is hard to find, art and events collective Papi Juice gives queer and trans people of color a home — and a soundtrack — for the night.

As a generation of queer pioneers reaches old age, new models of housing and community space leverage design to meet their needs.