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“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 magazine in the style of a manila folder
A website made of stairs
“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
An article with a dancing lobster
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“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
“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
“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
A video in the style of a ransom note
A website about climate crisis
A series of artist interviews
“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
“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
An artist book
“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
Teaching sites made with google docs
A circular music player
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
An exhibition catalogue
A website about medieval animal trials
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
An online viewing room
Editorial illustrations
“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 time
A book that spans the life of a pencil
A set of animated icons
A series of one minute videos
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A magazine about hitchhiking
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
A website with a sunset cam
A video featuring Taylor Swift
An video with animated emojis
A video made of cartoon screenshots
“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
“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
A painting show
An article about the MTA map
A website with an auto-generated pattern
“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 website with the color eigengrau
“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
@nytimes Instagram
An article seen through windows
“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
A video in the style of a tarot deck
A text about fostering cats
A video featuring FKA twigs
A newspaper fold
A stereoscopic anthology
A website that uncovers alt-text
A series of digital billboards
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A website that is also a rebus
“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
Editorial illustrations
An artist book