Our Local Center teams have been working hard to reclaim and activate public spaces across New York City with creative installations, festivals, markets and more.

Join our Local Center teams as they launch programming in their newly-designed public spaces.

Three Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx will launch new projects to transform public spaces in under-invested commercial corridors.

Martha Snow reflects on the newest cohort of Local Center teams who are envisioning a new future for our Main Streets.

Martha Snow reflects on the latest midpoint shareout for Local Center projects and their work reclaiming public spaces.

Local Center teams share lessons learned from community engagement and where they are headed next.

Gina Lee reflects on a recent tour of the Flatbush African Burial Ground and the power of history in public space.

Martha Snow reflects on a recent Learning Community session among Local Center partners.

Daniel McPhee shares how we approached recruiting design teams and preparing our partners to choose from among them.

Five interdisciplinary design teams will support neighborhood organizations in realizing new public space projects that celebrate local cultures and histories.

Martha Snow, in our first Practice Notes, reflects on how we found our five neighborhood partners earlier this year.

Five neighborhood organizations will lead new projects to celebrate local cultures and histories in public space.