Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

H2 Oh No!

Technical Assistance

H2 Oh No!

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Swipe Out

Urban Investigations

Swipe Out

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Who Makes Bail?

Urban Investigations

Who Makes Bail?

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

Making Policy Public

Pinned Down? Rise Up!

Swept Up

Urban Investigations

Swept Up