MOMI – moving images and more in Queens
On a cold Saturday in January families and groups of friends turned up at the Museum of the Moving Image’s “Open Worlds 2026” launch celebration, despite an impending snowstorm. The…
At Kremer Pigments in Chelsea
Everything that is in the world can go into these colors. There are groups of colors who come out of the earth, other colors come out of plants…
District 27 – Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, Queens Village and more
Views so far Alyssa M: My grandfather’s shop has always meant so much to me because it holds memories of not only me but my community that cannot be replaced.…
Inspiration from Lewis Latimer House in Flushing
In an interview, the museum’s Executive Director Ran Yan describes how Latimer’s legacy is being carried forward in the house itself and its relationship with its surrounding community.
District 20 – Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill
My primary school in my neighborhood means a lot to me, I had really beautiful memories there with my friends that I miss now.
District 29 – Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill Ozone Park
The Helen Marshall Cultural Center is a towering atrium inside the Queens Borough Hall, on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens...
District 35 – Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant
This building means a lot to me, it's been in my family a long time. What's happening here is poor people are being pushed out. We need more apartment buildings,…
District 43 – Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach
"I believe that places are what we make them," says Fatima Jimenez, sitting outside the Bay Ridge Barber Shop on 3rd Ave.
District 46 – Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Sheepshead Bay
The park right by my house has a really pretty beach and a nice place to run or bike. In the Summer people have barbecues and cookouts...
District 31 – Arverne, Edgemere, Laurelton, Rosedale, Far Rockaway and others
There's a place that people who live here call "town". It means a lot to me because there is a lot in the area - there are delis, hair salons,…
District 9 – Harlem, Morningside Heights, Upper West Side
The two places that mean the most to me in my neighborhood are first my building which is an HDFC cooperative and has allowed working class people to own their…
District 26 – Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City, Astoria, Dutch Kills
Lance Corporal Thomas J. Noonan playground, aka “Rainbow Park"...is my daughter’s outdoor space. We have a small yard, but my landlord doesn’t let us use it.
District 25 – Jackson Heights, Elmhurst
I would like to see more community spaces. Our library is too small and cramped and can expand into multilingual community services.
District 7 – Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights
Because of the pandemic there are not a lot of places for people to drop off scraps of food for composting. I’d really like there to be more of that.…
District 8 – El Barrio, Mott Haven, Highbridge, Concourse, Longwood, Port Morris
Outside Brothers Seafood, Ingrid, who has lived in the neighborhood for four years, is waiting for her order to be ready. She says a place that means a lot to…
District 30 – Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, Woodside
Stop and Shop offered us the convenience to shop safely during most of the time in NYC lockdown...The management took all the precautions, especially for the elderlies to shop safely…
District 22 – Astoria, East Elmhurst, Woodside
Astoria Park, and all the parks really, mean the world to our family. We visit a few local parks each week, and love to explore the entire neighborhood’s playgrounds and…
District 3 – SoHo, Little Italy, West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Flatiron, Times Square and more
Kremer Pigments, selling natural colors for paints, has been at located on Chelsea's 29th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues for twenty years, but is closing in November 2025.
District 2 – East Village, Lower East Side, Rose Hill
During this pandemic my go-to comfort zone has been Stuyvesant Square, where I can read and watch the changing of the seasons through its plantings.
District 1 – Chinatown, Financial District, Little Italy, the Lower East Side
My students are being made homeless, they are going into shelters…there’s a domino effect happening.