A neighborhood advocate marshals data and organizes neighbors to make congested Midtown streets safe for pedestrians.

Where demand is high and private infrastructure is scarce, the city seeks to squeeze in streetside charging for electric cars.

Where street trees have gone missing, sculptural assemblages punctuate the pavement.

Creating 3,000 more places to go can be transformative for people's dignity and the quality of the public realm. But actually implementing a citywide restroom network requires solutions that address each neighborhood's specific needs.

The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.

As redevelopment and electrification push them into the realm of history, unexpected social patterns still reveal themselves at the pumps.

A harm reduction collective works to meet people who use drugs "where they're at," not just metaphorically, but geographically.

An ambitious new opera plumbs the humanity and contemporary relevance of two mythic figures of New York City: Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.

Recent books explore the potential in underused and overdetermined spaces, from mid-century American city centers and suburban shopping malls to the current glut of vacant retail storefronts and offices.

A 1.3-mile-long pedestrian promenade in Queens is a lodestar for planners, a lifeline for many residents, and an albatross to others.