Print edition, designed by Andrew Sondern

The map being built from the ground up.
Detail: getting off the train and walking to a connection
Detail: the illustrator rode the length of the subways to feel the curve of the paths
Detail: here we reach the edge of the map.
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“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

“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 video featuring FKA twigs

An article with a dancing lobster

An exhibition catalogue

“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

Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it

Teaching sites made with google docs

A series of artist interviews

“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

An online viewing room

An video with animated emojis

A series of one minute videos

“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

A website about medieval animal trials

A video made of cartoon screenshots

“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 video featuring Taylor Swift

“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 set of animated icons

A newspaper fold

A circular music player

A video in the style of a ransom note

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about collecting images

“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 artist book

A website with an auto-generated pattern

“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

A stereoscopic anthology

A website with a sunset cam

A text about fostering cats

“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 website that is also a rebus

Editorial illustrations

A website about climate crisis

A website that uncovers alt-text

“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

“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

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about publishing

Editorial illustrations

An article about the MTA map

“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”

A personal essay

A painting show

A website with the color eigengrau

A video in the stye of a comic strip

A video in the style of a tarot deck

“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

“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”

An obituary

@nytimes Instagram

“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

A magazine in the style of a manila folder

A series of digital billboards

“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 magazine about hitchhiking

A website made of stairs

“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”

A class assignment about containers

A book that spans the life of a pencil

An article seen through windows

An artist book