In the nearly three years that have passed since the city's Department of Education gave principals greater control of their schools, several failing schools truly have turned around, according to…
Two days after a New York State Senate bill that would have outlawed discrimination against transgender and gender-bending people was defeated in the Senate's Judiciary Committee a Queens homeless shelter…
The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children.…
If New York City faces another catastrophe on the scale of September 11, city residents now are more prepared for the aftermath. The question is: Are our primary care health…
In the past 45 days, New York City has adopted two new policies that stand to help residents counter unlawful debt collection practices. But advocates say very little is being…
Civil liberties groups are suing the federal government to get information on a program that makes local jails—including New York—part of the immigration enforcement network.
The Bloomberg administration has blamed state regulations for its move to charge rent in homeless shelters. But City Hall opposes efforts to overturn those rules.