Streetfilms producer Clarence Eckerson shares videos from 20 years of documenting daylighting in New York City. Daylighting is having a moment right now - but these videos show that its benefits have always been on display in certain areas.

Tape becomes a tool for community building, creativity, and outside-the-box thinking in artist Kuki Go’s life-size street murals.

This month, finishing touches were put on a Street Improvement Project years in the making. Using 5 mph signs, beautifully painted curb extensions, planters, and safety stones, West 103rd Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenue in Manhattan has been transformed into a people-centered space.

Open Plans intern Modhupa Tsali is a high school student and climate activist who works to build more livable communities that are free from polluting fossil fuels and climate injustice.

The student leaders behind Washington Heights’ Clean Air Green Corridor talk about the work they’re doing to clean up the streets and inspire a better, greener future.

Our inaugural Building Blocks workshop asked Morningside Heights residents to share their vision for a better block. The next step in the process is help them realize that vision.

Open Plans report “Parking Minimums are Parking Mandates: Lifting Parking Mandates in New York City” explores what parking minimums are, how they’re harmful, and how to move forward — making the case to fully eliminate New York City’s parking mandates, citywide, in the upcoming City of Yes Zoning Text Amendment.