At NYCHA’s Surfside Gardens, slow repairs leave seniors and residents with disabilities waiting years as broken elevators, intercoms, playgrounds, and trash compactors disrupt daily life.
“Living in the Shade” opened last week in a Downtown Brooklyn gallery, and will be on view through Feb. 27 before moving to LaGuardia Community College.
Across New York City, workers are tearing out concrete and asphalt from schoolyards and replacing them with rain-absorbing surfaces that are more climate resilient, according to reporting by Aria Young…
Across the country, cities are transforming asphalt schoolyards into spongy, shady community centers. The new playground at PS 184M Shuang Wen School in Manhattan’s Chinatown, for example, has a porous…
