What a $10 bag of produce can do for New York

Fresh, healthy, affordable food delivered to your neighborhood; now that’s a step, or a roll, in the right direction.

The future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

How will the historic site–New York’s largest and oldest industrial facility–look in a year? In ten? We take a look at one new, “green” piece of the industrial fabric.

Who really owns that brand in your shopping cart?

Can this app give you more control over your life?

A better city starts with pedestrian space

In this video, urban strategist & former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa tells us how we can reprioritize road space for people.

Young people mobilizing for climate justice

Climate change mobilizes youth activism in NYC’s most vulnerable communities

Win a grant to improve our city’s public spaces

How will you better public space? Proposals for micro-grants due August 1

Five more days for proposals: My Voice, Our City competition

The proposed projects range from introducing computer programming to low-income communities to providing financial literacy and money management workshops across the five boroughs.

Meet July’s New York Tech Meetup stars

This month’s New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) featured eclectic startups in the fields of news, events, healthy eating, locksmithing, project management, and coding.

Book review: The City and The Coming Climate

New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?