Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Swept Up

Urban Investigations

Swept Up

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Print Swept Up

In April 2016, the NYPD raided two Eastchester housing complexes in the Bronx and arrested 120 people. Despite descriptions as the “largest gang takedown in New York City history,” over half the arrestees were never even charged as gang members. How did this all happen? Criminal Conspiracy Laws—originally used to bring down organized crime like the mafia—are being used by NYPD to police youth and charge them with “gang involvement”, simply because of who they know. For many low-income teens of color, basic activities like having friends in one’s neighborhood, are used to justify arrest at alarming rates.

What are criminal conspiracy laws? What’s the NYPD gang database? How do these laws and police practices impact local communities?

In the summer of 2019, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Ro Garrido and students from the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn to dig deep into criminal conspiracy laws and their impact on local community members, interview stakeholders working on the issue, and create art to show what they learned. The group teamed up with Designer Marcela Szwarc and created the booklet, Swept Up, to educate others and help them get involved in the issue.

Learn more about the project here!

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!