Air Fair?

City Studies

Air Fair?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

Envisioning Development

Is Your Landlord Harassing You or Your Neighbors?

We Own It

Making Policy Public

We Own It

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Print From Cellblock to Your Block

In March 2017, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio pledged to close the Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years and introduced plans to build four new “borough-based” jails in the city. Who decides where jails get built? How do jails impact surrounding neighborhoods? What are the impacts of jails on the incarcerated, their families, and their communities?

In the spring of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Stephen Kwok and public high school students from Life Sciences Secondary School to investigate these questions.

Students created public art interventions, surveyed community members near the Manhattan Detention Complex, and interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue. This booklet is a guide to what they discovered.

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

Lotto Zone

Urban Investigations

Lotto Zone

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Up Closed and Personal

Urban Investigations

Up Closed and Personal

Carbon City

City Studies

Carbon City