Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Planning for your children's future

Technical Assistance

Planning for your children's future

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Soak It Up!

City Studies

Soak It Up!

Lunchroom Digest

City Studies

Lunchroom Digest

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

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Up Closed and Personal

Urban Investigations

Up Closed and Personal