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.

Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

While hibernation and migration are the norm, some animals stay in the city for winter, seeking out opportunities in the heat we generate.

Where maritime industry once thrived, and where a tunnel was thwarted, New York’s submarine species make homes in the shadow of waterfront development.

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

Polluted and repressed, the buried streams of Flushing Creek will once again see the light of day.

What if New York City’s public pools were open all year long?

A newspaper from the future imagines how New Yorkers defeat fascism, defend public power, electrify everything, and protect each other from flooding.

Hyperlocal settings frame larger phenomena including stormwater management, the politics of place names, ersatz infrastructure, the tyranny of private property, and other signs of the never-ending change that characterizes the city.

A disquisition into the urban/suburban and human/insect divides, and how people might come together when their surroundings are planned to keep them apart.