Our Voice, Our Choice

Urban Investigations

Our Voice, Our Choice

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

We care!

Making Policy Public

We care!

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

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.

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

My ID

City Studies

My ID

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Is College For Me?

Public Access Design

Is College For Me?