Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Lotto Zone

Urban Investigations

Lotto Zone

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

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!

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Yours to Keep

Making Policy Public

Yours to Keep

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Public Access Design

Rumbo A Su Tarjeta Verde

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

Free For All?

City Studies

Free For All?