The low-lying Jewel Streets neighborhood, once coastal marshlands now cut off from the waterfront, is prone to extreme flooding. What happens if planners and advocates learn to go with the flow?

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.

A contemporary "bathhouse" draws on ancient traditions to heighten experience, but is untethered from the more convivial aspects of bathing culture.

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.