For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.

Two hundred years of environmental change have meant both destruction and conservation of the most interesting river in America.

With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.

Drinking water is all around us, but just out of reach. Can simple tweaks to the city’s emergency infrastructure radically expand access to this precious resource?

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

In West Harlem, a wastewater treatment plants hides beneath a 28-acre state park.

Traces of a private water supply system, only recently decommissioned, extend across southeastern Queens.

Climate change is real, and happening now — but exactly what that means for coastal cities is surprisingly uncertain. Engineers at Princeton’s Form Finding Lab choose flexibility over fortification to protect coastal cities from flooding.

Hidden in Central Park, the remains of a 19th century reservoir that fell out of fashion.

In the new series, Underexposed, photographer Stanley Greenberg's monthly dispatches trace the myriad paths of the city’s infrastructural networks in great breadth and close detail.