Will a new Business Improvement District bring stability and support to East Harlem's placekeepers, or does it spell the end of community stewardship and power?

Over more than 20 years, an artist ferrying passengers through New York’s waterways in small boats has shared a unique vantage on an always-changing island city.

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

In the shadow of the Flatiron, a writer spends an hour conducting her own public space audit.

What happens when artists embed within city government? For ten years, New York’s Public Artists in Residence have been building bridges and breaking down walls between the civic and the public.

Posting the experiences of shelter residents and staff in the public realm, artist Alex Strada creates a walking meditation on the right to housing.

Multiple spins on an elaborate underwater-themed carousel reveal the importance of wonder in the public realm.

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

A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.