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

Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.

As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

In Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the cricket pitch is a commonwealth.

Preserving and propagating the city's autochthonous flora, Staten Island's Greenbelt Native Plant Center is at the center of an unseen infrastructure of ecological restoration and climate adaptation.

In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.

Herbs and berries are free for the picking along the Bronx River Foodway. But the public place for foraging is also a pathway to stronger connections with local ecologies and community self-determination.