Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Print Bottled Up

People all over New York City are pushing shopping carts full of bottles, but why? Where are they going with all those cans?

In the Fall of 2015, CUP collaborated with teaching artist Leon Anthony James and Sean Haberman’s Global History Regents Prep class at the Academy of Urban Planning in Bushwick, Brooklyn to find out more about the New York State Returnable Container Act, a.k.a. the Bottle Bill. This law was created to reduce litter and to encourage recycling, but how does it impace our communities?

To investigate, students created screenplays about the people known as “canners” who redeem 5 cents per bottle collected, then interviewed the co-founder and former canner of the Bushwick recycling center Sure We Can. They created this printed postcard to share what they discovered about the life of a bottle in their neighborhood.

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

My ID

City Studies

My ID

Parents' Rights During COVID-19

Technical Assistance

Parents' Rights During COVID-19

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Public Access Design

Bail's Set... What's Next?