Elected officials and criminal justice advocates are calling for the city and Mayor Bill de Blasio to shut down the five-story Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center in the Bronx.
Hoping to broaden an issue that often is targeted only to residents of the five boroughs, the Democratic challenger proposed expanding the number of stabilized apartments statewide.
The saga of the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in the Philippines illustrates the possibility—and potential pitfalls—of using heritage preservation as a tool to resist gentrification.
After apartheid, many Blacks left South Africa’s townships in a search for a better life in the big city. Now they see government, landlords and private-security firms banding together to…
Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.
‘In a city the size of New York, with its many religious structures, the Commission must be very selective in choosing examples of this building type for designation as individual…
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