New York City

WNYC’s Sara Fishko talks to a photographer who for decades has been looking at the joys and sorrows of the human condition.

Every Wednesday at noon in Times Square, New York City, educator George Nobl sets up a table. He lays out different math problems that need to be tackled and a row of Snickers bars for anybody who gets them right.

The steel storefront gates along 125th Street become brightly colored canvases for one of Harlem’s most prolific mural painters.

In 1978, in the worst urban blight New York City had ever experienced, the filmmaker Henry Hills found the arts thriving in the in the cracks in the asphalt. He filmed dancers improvising in vacant lots, poets giving lectures on the street, and composers like John Zorn giving loft concerts. The performances were cheap to […]

More from the Queens Public Library — it circulates 16.8 million books a year, more than any other library in the country. Produced by Sarah Nobles and Rob Weisberg. Part 3.