With the passage of the state budget and the long-awaited and hard-fought approval of congestion pricing for Manhattan, New Yorkers worn down by endless subway delays and clogged city streets may see ...

Soon after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s ambitious plan to extend lower Manhattan into the East River, Klaus Jacob, a special research scientist with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty ...

The de Blasio administration has encouraged New Yorkers to work remotely, shuttered restaurants and bars, and closed the city’s school system to curb the spread of COVID-19. But private construction ...

Opponents of a contested city-backed housing project that will raze the Elizabeth Street Garden have followed through on months of legal threats, and have filed lawsuits against the development. The ...

2018 was one heck of a year for New York: The beloved Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island became a landmark, a wave of progressive politicians refocused the conversation around issues like housing ...

Fifty years ago, on August 5, 1966, the sound of jackhammers rang out at the corner of Cortlandt and West streets in the Financial District, and the intersection ceased to exist. Those jackhammers ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has all but suspended public life in New York City. Major avenues and boulevards whose sidewalks usually teem with pedestrians now sit empty; well-trafficked plazas and transit ...

A precedent-setting court ruling could have forced the city to study the racial impacts of a neighborhood rezoning, potentially making those plans more equitable. But an unanimous appeals court ...

The MTA’s dreaded repairs to the L train’s East River tunnel were completed ahead of schedule, despite the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday. Work on the Hurricane Sandy-damaged ...

Update: On March 20, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a 90-day moratorium on evictions for residential and commercial tenants, meaning no one can be evicted in New York state until at least June 20th.

If you want to contemplate a healthy future for public housing in the United States, you could visit Brooklyn’s Ingersoll Houses, a cluster of red brick apartment buildings completed in 1944. The 20 ...

As part of the city’s landmark “Green New Deal” that passed in April, midsize and large building owners will soon be required to display an energy efficiency score and corresponding letter grade near ...