infrastructure

"Sometimes you feel like you're not in the city anymore," said urban ecologist Jason Munshi-South as we stood at the edge of his Highbridge Park field site in Washington Heights. It was an unusually idyllic August morning in Manhattan—warm but not humid, with the sun glinting off sycamore leaves in the park below us.

Last Friday, the ceiling fell through in McBain. Two days ago, it collapsed above toilets in Hartley. Debris in McBain fell onto a resident's bed and desk, shattering her iPhone.