CUP Resources

The official site of Anthony Papa, artist, writer, noted advocate against the war on drugs, and co-founder of the Mothers of the New York Disappeared.

A great history of New York’s Tenant Movement edited by Ronald Lawson and hosted online by tenant.net.

CUP Teaching Artist Amanda Matles took the Chew on This project on the Road to the AgriArt Show at the Fine Arts Gallery at George Mason University, Virginia in the spring of 2009. Learn more about the project and download the Chew on This zine in this article from the Journal of the New Media Caucus.

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is a nonprofit bookstore, cafe, and event venue located in SoHo.

Jetro is a wholesale supplier for food businesses and nonprofits, servicing many of New York’s bodegas. They carry traditional grocery items as well as fresh produce and frozen foods.

Kevin Pyle is a CUP Educator, illustrator, and comic book artist.

Housed at LaGuardia Community College, the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives hold an extensive collection of archival photographs of New York City public housing.

The NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA) Program was established under the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1993. The NAFTA-TAA Program combines aspects of two laws that have been in effect for many years: Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program, under the Trade Act of 1974.

No Impact Man is the blog of a man whose goal is to create a lifestyle with no net environmental impact in New York City.

Met Council’s monthly newspaper Tenant/Inquilino covers a broad array of topics of interest to tenants.

The official website of The Wannabe

16 Beaver is the address of a space initiated/run by artists to create and maintain an ongoing platform for the presentation, production, and discussion of a variety of artistic/cultural/economic/political projects. It is the point of many departures/arrivals.

The Academy of Urban Planning (AUP) is a New Visions high school based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. AUP’s urban planning theme-based curriculum draws students out of the classroom and into their communities using New York City as a laboratory.

Apex Art is a nonprofit contemporary art gallery. Parts of Garbage Problems appeared in an exhibition here that was curated by Ted Purves entitled “Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country.” This is where we first met Temporary Services.

Created in 1991, the Arts in the Shelters Program works with homeless kids in New York City who face the daily uncertainty and instability of living in city shelters.

An on-going dialogue about food and farming issues, focusing on the preservation of a healthy, diversified food system. The CUP team presented Bodega Down Bronx at the 2008 conference, Schools, Food, and Community.

The Bronx High School for Visual Arts is a collaboration between the office of the Bronx Superintendent, Lehman College Art Gallery, and Wave Hill, with the support of New Visions for Public Schools.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is the only museum of fine art in the Bronx. Its collection focuses on art by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American descent and is composed of more than 800 contemporary works in all media.

BCAT is Brooklyn’s community access television provider.

Bway.net was founded in February of 1995 with the goal of providing the highest quality Internet service for the residents of New York City. They are pro-privacy, anti-censorship, pro-open source and still believe that the Internet might just change the world.

The Chicago Housing Authority operates public housing in Chicago.

The Harlem Community Justice Center seeks to solve neighborhood problems including youth crime and the challenges faced by parolees through programs for at-risk youth and reentry programs for both juvenile and adult ex-offenders returning to the community.

Erik Martin Dilan represents the people of the 37th Councilmanic District serving the communities of Bushwick, Cypress Hills, East New York, Ocean-Hill, Brownsville, and Wyckoff Heights.

Founded in 1972, City-as-School is a public alternative high in New York City for 11th and 12th graders who learn in the classroom and at internships around the city.

CCRB is an independent and non-police mayoral agency empowered to investigate and recommend action on complaints against New York City police officers

Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children.

A nonprofit organization that provides policy research and advocacy on issues that affect New Yorkers, CSS assisted CUP and PHROLES in the policy research for PHTV. CSS policy analyst Vic Bach guest stars in the first episode of PHTV.

Community in Unity is a coalition of over twenty community organizations from the Bronx and around the city advocating for alternatives to the Oak Point jail proposal.

Since 2002, CUP has partnered with the Cooper-Hewitt Education Department to develop and teach programs for high school students and teachers.

Through monitoring, research, public education and policy recommendations, the Correctional Association strives to make the administration of justice in New York State more fair, efficient and humane. The Women in Prison Project is the arm of the organization dedicated to addressing the effects of the state’s criminal justice policies on women and their families.

The City of New York’s Department of Correction has jurisdiction over the city’s penal institutions. The average daily inmate population of the DOC fluctuates between 13,000 and 18,000.

Dexter Sinister is a just-in-time workshop & occasional bookstore located at 38 Ludlow Street.

GOLES organizes tenants on the Lower East Side, sponsors The Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side (PHROLES), and is our friend and partner in the creation of Public Housing Television.

Green Worker Cooperatives is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives in the South Bronx.

HTC organizes tenants in order to influence policies and programs that impact on low-income residents and neighborhood small businesses. To contact HTC, call 212-316-2240.

The Heritage School was founded in 1997, focusing its curriculum on the arts. CUP has worked with classes at Heritage since 2002.

Hester Street Collaborative is like a sister to CUP. They are “a design/build community based non-profit organization, created to work with NYC neighborhoods to improve their physical environment.”

Hope Community is a community development corporation based in the neighborhood of East Harlem in New York City.

JCAL offers a wide range of exhibits, educational projects, film screenings, lectures, and performances. The group was one of the first in the country to work with local schools to develop arts education programs.

The Justice Mapping center uses computer mapping (GIS) to help better understand, evaluate, and communicate criminal justice and other social policy information.

Labor notes is a non-profit organization that has been the voice of union activists who want to “put the movement back in the labor movement” since 1979. Through their monthly magazine, books, and conferences, they connect workers across the country and around the world who want to fight back and win at work.

The Legal Aid Society is the nation’s oldest and largest provider of legal services to the indigent. Legal Aid lawyers Judith Goldiner and Adriene Holder guest star in the first two episodes of Public Housing Television.

LESEC advocates for increased open space, expanded composting and recycling facilities, and environmental education.

Make the Road by Walking is a nonprofit that promotes economic justice, equity and opportunity for all New Yorkers through community and electoral organizing, advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education, and legal and support services.

MNN is Manhattan’s public access network.

The Metropolitan Council on Housing, one of New York City’s oldest housing advocacy organizations, was founded in 1958.

The Professional and Administrative Staff Association (PASTA) of The Museum of Modern Art, represents 250 administrative assistants, archivists, curatorial staff, conservators, educators, graphic artists, librarians, registrars, salespeople, secretaries, visitor assistants, and writers.

The New York City Police Department is New York’s law enforcement agency

The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam is a cultural institute dedicated to architecture, urban design, interior design and landscape architecture.

New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers is a service-learning program that aims to
empower youth to learn more about themselves and their neighborhoods while
contributing to efforts which lead to positive community change and
community strengthening.

New Visions, an education reform organization founded in 1989, works to improve the quality of public education in New York City schools.

The Department of Homeless Services was established in 1993 and made an independent Mayoral agency in 1999. Since its inception, the work of DHS and its nonprofit partners has primarily focused on providing safe shelter, outreach services and, over the last few years, helping individuals and families transition to permanent housing.

NYCEJA is a city-wide network that links grassroots organizations, low-income neighborhoods, and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice. Tim Logan represents NYCEJA in the Garbage Problems video.

A graphic design practice that works for cultural and educational institutions in a range of media

A MoMA affiliate, P.S. 1 is an art center and gallery in Long Island City, Queens devoted to contemporary art.

People’s Production House (PPH) is a comprehensive media justice organization serving New York City, Washington DC, and the Gulf Coast. PPH’s work combines media creation, media education and media activism. Their Digital Expansion Initiative works to educate and mobilize New Yorkers about broadband issues. All PPH projects work to build media organizers: media literate people who can create and demand a media that works in their interests.

Place in History is a nonprofit organization that sponsors collaborative projects addressing urban history, urban planning, and the physical and social fabric of the city. Through public installations, publications and events related to urban themes, the group strives to broaden public exposure to the complex histories underlying everyday urban settings.

Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal.

A non-profit organization from Brooklyn, the Pratt Center assists low-income communities have a voice in local development projects.

Project Projects designs print, environmental, and interactive projects for arts and culture organizations.

A program of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, RECYouth teaches children and teenagers digital video and audio skills.

Smack Mellon is a nonprofit arts organization located in the Dumbo area of Brooklyn. It supports emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new work by providing exhibition opportunities, studio workspace, and access to equipment and technical assistance for the realization of ambitious projects.

Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing innovative positions in art, architecture and design. Storefront was an early supporter of CUP and was the venue for our shows The Programmable City and Urban Renewal: The City without a Ghetto.

SSB works for sustainable development and environmental justice in the South Bronx. Omar Freilla represents SSB in the Garbage Problems video.

Temporary Services, based in Chicago, make a wide array of awesome projects.

An on-line resource, Tenant.net provides housing advice and discussion focusing on New York City and State.

The Art Gallery of Knoxville is dedicated to New and Emerging Art. It is an open space to cultivate ideas of Art and social engagement.

The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice

The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services provides services and supervision for offenders as an alternative to jail or prison.

The LWC is a movement of International Longshoremen’s Association members and retirees organizing to build a stronger and more democratic longshore union. They are crane operators and car drivers, checkers and baggage handlers, lashers, mechanics, hustler drivers, break bulk drivers, tugboat operators and warehouse workers. They are black and white workers, women and men, immigrants and native born. They have members in ports up and down the East and Gulf Coasts.

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) operates public housing in New York City.

The Point Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx.

The Point Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, political economists, artists, justice policy researchers, and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration.

The Rent Stabilization Association represents 25,000 property owners/agents in New York City.

Thumb is a graphic design office that works on both commissioned and speculative projects, usually in the areas of architecture and urbanism.

Tisdale Studio is a visual art studio based in Harlem that produces drawings, photographs, and installations for contemporary galleries, museums and collectors around the world.

The Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice is a new all-girls school in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Embracing the theme of criminal justice, the school develops their students into critical thinkers who rely on evidence, logic and sound reasoning to formulate ideas and to support them.

Weeksville Heritage Center is dedicated to preserving the historic Hunterfly Road Houses in Brooklyn and the significant history they represent. Bodega Down Bronx was screened as part of Weeksville’s public programming.

Our Center for Critical Skills project was first shown as part of White Box’s series of exhibitions called Six Feet Under: Guggenheimlichkeit.

LESTM provides exhibits and programs about the immigrant and migrant experience on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Richard Plunz, an architect and historian, provides an excellent overview of housing design and policy in New York.

In Rubbish! an archaeologist and editor analyze our trash and come up with some surprising conclusions about ways waste disposal can be better executed to preserve the environment.

NAI’s contribution to the 3rd International Architecture Biennale. The exhibit displays the work of architects and artists in search of a new political role for architecture.

This public housing agitprop from Chicago critiques the city’s Plan for Transformation project.

The Code City website, created by CUP and Honest, features interactive maps of public housing in New York City. It was produced through a Digital Artist in Residence grant from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

Landfill to Landscape was a design competition to transform New York City’s Fresh Kills landfill into a public park, sponsored by the New York City Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society.

This site contains one hundred photos taken by Heritage students for the Tagging the Social Contract project.

A website about how maps can reveal everyday practices of power. Projects and selections by Bill Rankin and friends

This website is an interactive database of behavioral observations, photos, videos, and drawings.

A project of the Invisible Institute, The View from the Ground publishes remarkable reporting from Chicago’s Stateway Gardens public housing development. The goal is to give public housing residents a chance to express their perspective.

Workspheres: Designing the Workplace of Tomorrow was a MoMA exhibit that inspired our project about the Center for Critical Skills.

Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman made this must-see three-hour documentary about Chicago’s Ida B. Wells housing development.

One of three videos made by students as part of Public Housing 101.

The Water Underground, TRT=33 min

Voices of Cabrini is a film about the demolition of Cabrini Green, a Chicago housing project.