Death appears in countless forms across New York City each day. While around 55,000 people die annually, the city also experiences the disappearance of small businesses, the erasure of communities through gentrification, and the extinction of unseen species. These layered losses reveal how urban residents perceive death selectively, responding only to what intersects with their immediate lives while remaining distant from the deaths they do not encounter. Within such a fragmented landscape, traditional memorial spaces, often isolated, monofunctional, and detached from the flows of the city, struggle to stay relevant. This project reframes death as an active component of the urban ecosystem by introducing a civic laboratory that uses a form of urban chromatography to make overlapping patterns of loss legible within the city’s everyday movements. Through this framework, the project proposes new ways for urban paths to intersect with and reveal these encounters in the public realm.