When one apartment building owner becomes overwhelmed by mortgage payments, the buildings nearby are also likely to be suffering from lapses in maintenance and safety, a new report finds.
The city’s MillionTrees program fights asthma and global warming. But tightening maintenance budgets, increasingly severe weather and decades-old planting decisions complicate trees’ contribution.
The former comptroller and 2013 mayoral hopeful repeated familiar policy positions on schools, business and crime, but did announce his backing for the governor’s controversial economic development plan.
A new report paints the most detailed statistical picture ever of Brooklyn and its 18 community districts, and suggests residents today are less poor, better educated, paying more for housing…
The number of homeless women veterans tracked by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs has more than doubled in the past five years, but they are poorly served by existing…
The end of the Advantage subsidy program leaves advocates battling to salvage a policy they criticized, the city bracing for more demand for scarce shelter beds and low-income families wondering…
A new report on homelessness in New York calls for some shelter residents to be housed for a year to 18 months, so they can get the time and resources…
Is it too early to be thinking about the 2013 municipal election? Of course! But that hasn’t stopped New York’s mayoral hopefuls from collecting half a million bucks in Brooklyn…
Amid a sea of praise for Gov. Cuomo’s second budget, advocates for low-income New Yorkers raised complaints. That, plus the latest on NYCHA, city job creation and the sick leave…
Optimistic statistics on job growth haven’t erased growing worries that a large segment of the American population is going to be cut off from steady employment.
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