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.

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

At the start of a new mayoral administration promising an urban transformation, eight practitioners discuss architecture’s role in shaping the social democratic city.

A small task force listens in on an obscure city soundtrack to maintain a century-old water system.

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

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

Behind the scenes of a DIY stalwart’s rebuild as it returns after ten years to a changed LES, and world.

Who built the Cross Bronx? In the history of an ambivalent icon, the answer is as complicated as the highway interchanges.

Are Bed-Stuy secrets for me to know and keep?