How do you get today’s high school students engaged in American democracy? One Brooklyn high school math teacher is campaigning to improve civic participation by turning pupils into pollsters.
Neighbors of the M35’s 125th Street stop are frustrated by garbage and bad behavior they blame on men who use the bus to get to and from Ward’s Island. The…
In heavily Democratic Kings County, there’s little suspense in the presidential race. But Mitt Romney’s a heavy favorite in a few neighborhoods that favored GOP candidates in 2004 and 2008.
The proliferation of falafel carts and other sidewalk food stands in Bay Ridge might make for tasty lunch options. But people who own brick-and-mortar restaurants say the mobile eateries represent…
In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department took the first steps in what he would later declare the “War on Drugs.” This timeline outlines the policing, politics, and culture of…
1934: Depression-era public works money is earmarked for public housing. The New York City Housing Authority is created.
1935: First Houses, the first public housing project in the United States, is…
The executive director and director of operations of New York’s Animal Care & Control resigned last week as the city’s shelter system faces criticism and a key court fight.
