Correspondents – NEW YORK 2044

reported from the imagination of Alex Beria

West Village Owners Bow To Intergenerational Pressure

reported from the imagination of Alex Strada

Alex Strada is an artist and educator based in New York City working across installation, sculpture, still and moving image,...

Protestors Shut Down Brooklyn’s Largest Casino As Flood Waters Rise

reported from the imagination of Alicia Boyd

Alicia Boyd is a research scientist and writer focused on responsible AI, data justice, and the social impacts of emerging...

When Your Neighbour Is A Gas Holdout

reported from the imagination of Amalia Cuadra

Amalia joined EN-POWER GROUP in 2012 to help build the company’s engineering services and now serves as Senior Director of...

The End Of Watery Death Traps In NYC

reported from the imagination of Amy Chester

Amy Chester is the Managing Director of Rebuild by Design, leading partnerships with governments and communities to create design‑driven solutions...

What a NYC Highschooler Needs to Graduate in an Election Year

reported from the imagination of Amy Zimmer

Amy Zimmer is the New York Bureau Chief of Chalkbeat, where her reporting on the city's public schools — including...

Tacos Are Flying Through The Air

reported from the imagination of Angelo Cabrera

Amy Zimmer is the New York Bureau Chief of Chalkbeat, where her reporting on the city's public schools — including...

Need a NYC Home? Here’s the Passcode.

reported from the imagination of Anonymous NYC Housing Official

Cannabis Shops Close as Green Cards Open Doors for Immigrants

reported from the imagination of Anonymous NYC Resident

Undersea Siphoning Sparks Walkouts

reported from the imagination of Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New...

Chinatown’s “Jailscraper” Falls

reported from the imagination of Betty Yu

Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, and activist born and raised in NYC. She integrates...

Immigrants Save Upstate New York Town from Flash Flood

reported from the imagination of Brenda Loya

Brenda Loya is the Chief Investment Officer at Raza Development Fund (RDF). A dedicated leader in community development finance, she...

The Road to Somewhere

reported from the imagination of Ciarán Finlayson

Ciarán Finlayson is a writer, editor, and Communications Director at the Fiscal Policy Institute, author of Perpetual Slavery, whose work...

Ice Box Saves West Indian Day Parade

reported from the imagination of Daphne Lundi

Daphne Lundi is an urban planner, climate policymaker, writer, and artist. She is the Managing Director of Urban Ocean Lab,...

Big Barter comes to the Bronx

reported from the imagination of Daven Asafo-Agyei

Daven Asafo-Agyei is a first-year master's student studying sustainability in the urban environment, researching the potential of new satellite data...

When NYC’s Youth Suffered from Possession, These Nurses Stepped Up

reported from the imagination of David Leo Rice

David Leo Rice is a novelist, animator, and surrealist fiction writer whose books include A Room in Dodge City and...

Making Space For Brooklyn Nuclear

reported from the imagination of Ellen Baum

Ellen Baum is the Director of the Climate and Health Research Network, focusing on the intersections of environmental justice and...

Not Displayable

reported from the imagination of Elyn Jin

Yunlin (Elyn) Jin is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media. Her practice explores the relationship between...

A Teacher’s Tower, Courtesy the City’s Worst Landlord

reported from the imagination of Emily Gallagher

Emily Gallagher represents the North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in the New York State Assembly, where she has...

They Funded Rockets. Now They’re Funding Readers

reported from the imagination of Erica Marks

Erica Marks spent nearly 40 years in senior fundraising and leadership roles at institutions including Columbia University School of the...

Roomers Survive Drone Mishap

reported from the imagination of Felice Kerby

Not in Our Neighborhood

reported from the imagination of Frances Hogan

Frances Hogan is an Adjunct Faculty member at New York University, where she teaches in the Departments of Applied Psychology...

Finally Catching Up To New Jersey

reported from the imagination of Ingrid Gould

Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Wagner School and Faculty Director...

Building The DIY Network That’s Beating Big Tech

reported from the imagination of Ioana Literat

Ioana Literat is an Associate Professor in the Technology, Media, and Learning program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she...

Inside the Gates of Hell

reported from the imagination of Jacob Cohen

Jacob Cohen is a Brooklyn-based experimental cellist, found-object instrument maker, and educator who has spent a decade bringing music and...

“The Pink Elephant in the Room” for Korean Community

reported from the imagination of Jeehae Fischer

Jeehae Fischer is the Executive Director of the Korean American Family Service Center (KFSC), a culturally specific, community-based nonprofit supporting...

The City You Pay For

reported from the imagination of Jennifer Mei

Jennifer Mei is a New York–based artist and emerging filmmaker whose practice moves between contemporary art and cinema. Raised in...

From Ghost Skyscraper to Public Haven

reported from the imagination of Jenny Dubnau

Jenny Dubnau is a visual artist whose practice explores portraiture, figure representation, and the human form. She holds a BA...

Staten Island Train Line Powers Up This Week

reported from the imagination of Jerzy

The New American Dream?

reported from the imagination of Jordan Rogove

Jordan Rogove is an architect and co-founder of DXA Studio, which he launched with partner Wayne Norbeck in 2011. Over...

Immigrants To Be Guaranteed Homes In Historic Hud Shift

reported from the imagination of Kate Poor

Kate Poor is a Senior Program Manager of Housing at HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), where she develops and implements...

reported from the imagination of Kelsey Herrity

Kelsey Herrity is a visual arts teacher at New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts in Park Slope, Brooklyn,...

Thermal Pipeline Hub To Host City’s Newest Museum

reported from the imagination of Kim Fraczek

Kim Fraczek is the Director of Sane Energy Project, a climate and energy justice organization representing over 18,500 New Yorkers....

Immigrant Designers Fight Back

reported from the imagination of Lee-Sean Huang

Lee-Sean Huang is an award-winning Taiwanese American design practitioner, educator, and community builder based between Providence and New York City....