Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

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.

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Bodega Down Bronx

Urban Investigations

Bodega Down Bronx

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza