If You Can Make It Here...

Urban Investigations

If You Can Make It Here...

The Wait

Urban Investigations

The Wait

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

We care!

Making Policy Public

We care!

The Internet is Serious Business

Urban Investigations

The Internet is Serious Business

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.

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Urban Investigations

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Yours to Keep

Making Policy Public

Yours to Keep

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights