Gay Americans’ arduous quest for civil rights claimed a transformative victory Friday in a Supreme Court decision backing marriage equality. Here’s how New York City’s leaders reacted.
The summer break is as much a season of concern as it is one of celebration. Over the coming months educators, parents, policymakers and non-profit organizations will work to stem…
A group of NYCHA residents and advocates say the mayor has been slow to address NYCHA’s problems and want the authority’s chairwoman ousted so the mayor can run the authority…
City food programs are expanding to address food insecurity among older New Yorkers. But some advocates want a more fundamental fix: A new, public retirement savings program to give seniors…
Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.
Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one…
The question isn’t just whether the mayor’s plan will work. It’s whether it will work in time to satisfy critics who are suddenly skeptical of mayoral control.
The departments of health and environmental protection log purchases of stomach medicine from major drug-store chains as part of an effort to spot water contamination.
Some advocates believe that whatever rent regime is ultimately approved by state legislators, the state agency charged with enforcing them will need more resources to do so.
You might not know what “turbidity” is but it’s a long-standing issue in the city’s Catskills watershed—one that climate change is likely to exacerbate.
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