NYC24 brings you the space issue: eight feature stories about New York City

For this issue, the third of NYC24, 16 reporters met New Yorkers whose lives are affected by space — too much, too little, outdoor, safe or virtual. We hope that the eight multimedia stories will make you think about space in new ways.

Grandparents who raise their grandchildren in shelters await a space to call home at the Cedars, a nearly completed, low-income development in the southwest Bronx attached to a mid-19th century mansion.

The United States granted Dane Solomon safe space when he received asylum from Guyana where he was persecuted for his sexual orientation.

Lack of garden space doesn't stop New Yorkers from getting locally harvested food. In the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, members of a local Community Supported Agriculture program receive weekly shipments of fruits and vegetables from a farm outside the city.

Steven Silverstein, whose three-foot-long Yamaha synthesizer and acoustic piano extend from his miniature kitchen, lives in tight space, as other artists with subsidized housing do.

In Manhattan, independent and chain booksellers plan every square foot of the display space in their stores to maximize sales in a tough industry.

The Air Band uses space as a medium, and bodies and circuitry as instruments, in their futuristic digi-rock jams.

A partnership between the city, a foundation and 20 private schools intends to renovate and double the number of baseball fields on public parks on Randall's Island.

Although a fire ravaged Erin O’Connor’s apartment on East Sixth Street, she still inhabits the space as a squatter and waits for Urban Housing Assistance Board to make repairs and convert the apartments to co-ops.