It’s easy to be a visionary when the alternative is an ash heap. A casino megaproject promised for Queens reveals the persistent failures of imagination driving “development” and its discontents.

In a dense city, borders and barriers made of steel, concrete, and asphalt can create unexpected pockets of protection for habitat-starved plants and animals.

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

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.