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Parks
Cataloging Comfort
A recently uncovered album reveals some of New York City parks' least exposed precincts — their public bathrooms.
Off the Beaten Path
For WXY and New York State Parks, designing comfort stations to accommodate more than 60 million annual visitors — representing many different genders, backgrounds, and accessibility needs — is no simple task.
Nesting Season
Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.
Call for Proposals: Urban Wild Writer Residency
We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.
Leachate and Landscape
Photographers explore the infrastructural underpinnings of Freshkills Park.
The Golden Hour
A photo essay documenting what will become Freshkills's East Park shows that new life can emerge from the most toxic environments.
Escape and Microcosm
SLO talks to Matthew Faber about the Central Park Arch Project and how the historic visions of Olmsted and Vaux could help cope with the many modes of transportation that jockey for space in New York’s most famous, and most crowded, park.
City as Playground
Artist Julia Jacquette and writer James Trainor discuss Jacquette's graphic memoir, Playground of My Mind, digging into the sandbox of their memories and a critical chapter in the history of New York City's public spaces.
Revisiting Freshkills' West Mound
Five photographers return to the site of the Freshkills Park Project to document the transformation of landfill into landscape.
Leaf Head: A New Yorker Learns to Look at Trees
When Russell Jacobs started identifying trees, he found history, conflict, and company in an overlooked component of the streetscape.