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

At the Black Zine Fair, now in its third year, the power of DIY publications as movement- and city-building technologies is on display.

How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

Up a marble staircase, in the attic of City Hall, a trio of civil servants steward an eclectic archive of city objects.

In the 1970s, a wave of arson caused widespread damage to the Bronx and the tenants who called it home. What brought a decade of fire to an end?

At one of the country’s largest food distribution hubs, a logistical choreography keeps our fish fresh.

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.

A modest, mid-block midtown building repurposed as a municipal arts center, City Center represented a monumental effort to support a program of arts for all. But how much can a building achieve?

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.