
Image Caption: Shaina Polazzo, 15, built a business painting portraits of houses in her Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood.

Image Caption: Sandra Rodrigues Pinto, a creative director based in Switzerland, worked with the modular furniture company USM to create a high-design baby changing table.

Image Caption: Girotondo, an Italian language day care, operates out of a two-family townhouse in Bed-Stuy.

Image Caption: Proponents need 60 percent of voters in Tuesday’s election to agree to reduce property taxes for the proposed Amendment 3 to pass.

Image Caption: The Polk Gulch neighborhood in San Francisco. A proposal on the ballot in California would authorize $11.25 billion in bonds to build and preserve affordable homes.