The New York City Neighborhoods Where It’s Hardest to Build Housing
On the South Shore of Staten Island, single-family homes are interspersed with woods and wetlands. In Bay Ridge,…
New York City Has a New Tool to Update Its Streets: The Stripe Hog
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration promised to redesign this traffic-choked avenue in Midtown Manhattan to bring faster bus service.…
A Timeline of the Fight Over the Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan
The battle over the Elizabeth Street Garden, in the NoLIta neighborhood of Manhattan, goes back more than a…
Explore New York City’s Layered Histories for the 250th Anniversary of the U.S.
Hints of New York’s past are interspersed throughout its built environment. Tucked between the concrete and the glass,…
Mamdani Commits $43 Million to Jump-Start Effort to Stop N.Y.C. Flooding
In 2027, more than 100 flood gates are scheduled to start protecting residents in Lower Manhattan from the…
Housing or Flood Protection? In Brooklyn, Housing Is Winning.
Bushwick Inlet, a cove where the brackish waters of the East River curl into a humble beach, is…
N.Y.C. Officials Inspecting Construction Sites After Building Buckles
New York City officials have been conducting safety inspections of construction sites across the city this week after…
Rush to Evacuate as ‘Beams Started Bending’ and Floors Sagged at Midtown Tower
Twenty-one stories above a Midtown Manhattan street on Tuesday morning, construction workers were busy converting an office building…
Inspector of Buckling Midtown Building Cited for Missing Problems at Other NYC Sites
Before columns buckled inside a Midtown Manhattan office tower on Tuesday, a private firm conducted several inspections of…
New York Unveils $5 Billion Plan to Finish Brooklyn Mega-Development
The Brooklyn development project known as Atlantic Yards was once held up as a potential catalyst of the…
An Upscale Hotel Breaks Ground in Downtown Newburgh — the First in 133 Years
Few hoteliers are eager to be the first to test an unproven market. But Sims and Kirsten Harlow…
‘Partying With a Purpose’: The Dance Party Making Millions for Parks
As the sun went down, more than 8,000 revelers squeezed under a bridge in a desolate corner of…