Participant Work
Each semester CityGAP participants complete Fieldwork based on our Five City Lenses, a Group Project with one of our partner organizations, and an Individual Project based on a meaningful question facing NYC (see below for examples).
Please click here to see the full archival list of our Individual Projects, and check out our Instagram to learn more about our Five City Lenses Fieldwork. Below are selections from across the semesters of fieldwork and projects to give you a taste of the depth and breadth of our participants’ work!
Seaside Strong Arterventions Street Mural with RISE Rockaway
The Seaside Strong Community Street Mural at Beach 60th is here after a year-long process! Thanks to the collaborative work of CityGAP participants, RISE’s Shore Corps students, dozens of passionate and committed community members, and teaching artists Ayushi Shriramwar and Camila Morales, The Rockaways have a beautiful representation of their community. Telling the story of The Rockaways through vivid imagery under the elevated A train, this community-designed and painted street mural reclaims the roadbed as a space for pedestrians, while celebrating the strength and resilience of the Rockaways community, with images of the restored dunes and nature preserve (thanks to RISE), close-knit community, and important landmarks.
Group Projects
Catherine - Green Deserts, Income, and Accessibility in Brooklyn
5 Lenses Fieldwork
The Just City: Working with La Morada Mutual Aid and Brook Park
Every Monday, our participants conduct community engagement work in Mott Haven in the South Bronx, at La Morada and Brook Park. La Morada is a Oaxacan restaurant and mutual aid kitchen, run by the Saavadra family, serving 600 meals a day to recent immigrants and other community members in need, also holding community events, workshops, and school drives. LCP students prepare and distribute food and assemble pamphlets. Brook Park is a community garden and urban farm that serves as an environmental justice and education center. Participants support founder Danny Chervoni by working in the garden.
