While statisticians wrestle over whether the decennial count accurately captured New York’s population, CUNY journalism students looked inside the numbers for stories of ethnic change in places like Ridgewood, Queens.
State leaders are edging toward a deal to preserve rent regulations. But advocates who’d hoped not just to save the laws but to strengthen them wonder what the final deal…
A new report finds that the 421-a tax exemption cost the city nearly $755 million last year and has produced a mere 5,700 units of affordable housing over its quarter-century…
An influx of young, more affluent residents is remaking the Brooklyn neighborhood. What’s gained, and what’s lost, in this transformation? Watch a video interview with reporter Patrick Wall.
She came to the city for a concert and never left. Now she’s part of the city’s complex culture of street homelessness—where cardboard signs are gold, and you’re either a…
First-generation New Yorkers are more likely to reside in rent-regulated housing than the rest of us. So as Albany weighs weakening or strengthening rent rules, some immigrants are raising their…
A federal planning grant to be shared among several governments on either side of the New York-Connecticut border aims for transit-oriented development.
For residents of First Houses—the Lower East Side site where public housing began in the United States—pride in their historic location is mixed with worries about deterioration inside.
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