Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.

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.

Our inaugural Urban Wild Writer in Residence reports from the four mounds of the future Freshkills Park.

In the middle of a paved Midtown park, tunnel air whirs through 46 huge fans.

Where do the street trees come from, and where does the compost go? Rikers Island was the city’s growing outpost for years. But does “greening” the prison always improve things for prisoners?

In West Harlem, a wastewater treatment plants hides beneath a 28-acre state park.

A recently uncovered album reveals some of New York City parks' least exposed precincts — their public bathrooms.

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.

Photographers focus on the grasslands that cap the former Fresh Kills landfill and provide new homes for threatened wildlife.

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.