“Create a microsite around an Earth Month event or event series.“
Class assignment using real-time data
“This story is already out of date: New changes have come to the blue-grey cast-iron building at the corner of Grand and Eldridge Street where our story begins. ”
An article proposing a new model for historic preservation
“Creating a space that appeals to locals and visitors is a balancing act. The New York that exists in the imagination of a tourist isn’t going to be the same as the many New Yorks 8.25 million residents know as their own.”
An article about the redevelopment of Rockefeller Center
“I’d really come to peek at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, where each year a surprising volume and variety of wildlife gathers to enjoy an eccentric urban oasis.”
A mini series about how animals put human-built infrastructures to unanticipated uses.
“Some of our deepest and most intimate relationships are formed living with other people.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
A website with the color eigengrau
A website about medieval animal trials
“The Lower Manhattan skyline is an icon of glass and steel, global wealth and power. But just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, the profile turns to mountains of brick.”
An article about overcladding
MFA thesis book
“It’s become a ritual of sorts: drafting a list of ingredients, grabbing a canvas bag, driving the vehicle of my body along the same streets there and back, selecting my produce, paying, unloading my goodies, and packing them away at home.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
A stereoscopic anthology
“Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.”
An article about a development nightmare
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A series of digital billboards
“Telling time, taking time, keeping time, time out, time to kill, time is money, time is on my side, race against the clock, ahead of time, a stitch in time, a hard time, buy time, big-time, and so on.”
A class assignment about keeping time
“In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.”
An article about a campaign to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway
An article seen through windows
“The original meaning of the word ‘comprehension’ is ‘to grasp, to seize something with the hands and hold it tight...’”
A class assignment about hands
Editorial illustrations
An artist book
“A toxic mix of sewage, trash, urban runoff, and chemical waste released indiscriminately by the factories located along the banks of the Bronx River has wreaked havoc on its ecology for over a century.”
All about a map
“I have become a hoarder of dreams. Since high school, they’ve slowly piled up. They’re strewn across journals and loose slips of paper, and in the last few years stored on the Cloud, a nice place for dreams.”
A personal essay about grieving and dreaming.
A set of animated icons
“Vladia Brooks kneads bread in the same spot that her father, Vladimir Nevl, kneaded bread for almost 50 years.”
An article about a Czech family restaurant
“The parade offers a glimpse at what the neighborhood could be: a place where people are free to be themselves and celebrate who we are. A place where we can be familiar. A place where we can move and breathe.”
An article about a fish parade
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“I ventured out into the sick world to take leave of the city and spend a week with my old friend Annie at her cabin on the North Fork of Long Island.”
An essay about dreaming and digestion
“When all the other mothers wore heels, stockings and hair spray, Esther would come to events with no stockings, no hairspray and no heels.”
An obituary
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A series of one minute videos
A website about climate crisis
A video in the stye of a comic strip
A video made of cartoon screenshots
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
@nytimes Instagram
“As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?”
An article about New Yorks next island
A painting show
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
An video with animated emojis
“Eighty years ago, the City attempted to counter that exclusivity through a theater guided by a public mission.”
An article about the making of municipal arts center in the 1940s
“It’s illustrated in a topographic style, with the region seen from above and stretching out to the horizon. The artist even included the sky. . . that’s nice.”
A note from the editors about making a map of New York City
“Starting with the New York Public Library Picture Collection and Digital Collections, build a collection of images with the theme of your choice.”
A class assignment engaging the NYPL image collection
An online viewing room
A video featuring Taylor Swift
“Budgets are moral documents.”
An interview about budget justive
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
“It’s the year 2044, and New Yorkers are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the MAGA regime’s fall from national power.”
An installment of NY 2044, a newspaper from the future
“This short swimming season, mostly due to a shortage of lifeguard and security staff, leaves the pools and their grounds unused for more than two thirds of the year.”
Five ways to keep NYC's pools open year-round
A website made of stairs
“The litter box may have brought us physically closer to our feline companions, but that doesn’t mean we understand them any better than when they lived mostly outdoors.”
An essay about cat litter
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“Since acquiring a disability three years ago, I get around the city primarily using Access-A-Ride (AAR), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s paratransit service.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
“Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.
An essay about playgrounds
A website with an auto-generated pattern
“Advertisements are so prevalent in New York’s urban landscape that they almost disappear from view.”
An exegesis of New York's blank billboards
A newspaper fold
A website that uncovers alt-text
An exhibition catalogue
“In any case, now is a moment to understand what exactly the city has lost with the closure of Hester Street, as well as how it came to be what it is, drawing out any lessons for others who might aspire to fill in the gap it’s leaving behind.”
An article about an influential nonprofit
Teaching sites made with google docs
A website with a sunset cam
“The way that elements and parts of a dream connect with each other is a complex problem, yet, like a language, there are rules and frameworks.”
A photo book
A circular music player
“Parasite. noun. par·a·site ˈpar-ə-ˌsīt. : an organism living in, with, or on another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.“
A class assignment about web extensions
A text about fostering cats
“Just type the word ‘Chinatown’ into a Google image search and it will return pages of brightly colored Chinatown gates.”
An article about Manhattan’s Chinatown
A video in the style of a ransom note
An article with a dancing lobster
“The highest point in Central Park, Summit Rock once looked out over a thriving rural community. Established in 1825 by free Black New Yorkers seeking respite from the discrimination and bustle downtown, Seneca Village flourished.”
An article about a forgotten village
A Site for Sore Eyes
“As an architecture student in the 1990s, I puzzled over my instructors’ and classmates’ reflexive dismissal of suburbs, suburban form, and, by extension, suburbanites.”
An article about suburbia
“Each day, trucks arrive at the Soil Bank from 7 am until 1 pm, with the last truck no later than 1:30. The materials they deposit are delivered to a screener via front-end loader and sifted before they are homogeneous enough for reuse.”
An article about New York's soil
“The ghost of Annie’s brother was said to go into the pantry for a drink every night at 10 o’ clock.”
An article about a haunted house
A series of artist interviews
A magazine about hitchhiking
“Behind the unassuming and conventional exteriors of public housing project buildings, behind the deferred maintenance and enduring stigma, there are apartment units with unique, enthralling, and expressive interiors.”
An article about a crowdsourced archive of family photos
A website that is also a rebus
A video featuring FKA twigs
An artist book
Editorial illustrations
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A negative clock
“The Women’s Mountain Bike and Tea Society wants to rub out the image of mountain biking as an extreme sport.”
An article about a feminist bike collective
An article about the MTA map