As a promise to help mom and pop shops stand their ground when a Pathmark opened in southwestern Queens a few years ago, the City Council passed a law establishing…
The number of kids testing positive for lead poisoning dropped dramatically over the last five years, according to a city report, but the majority of toddlers are not even getting…
As the city’s Department of Homeless Services struggles to house the record number of homeless families it sees each day, several of the agency’s managers and social workers plan to…
New York’s collection of livable neighborhoods should attract businesses looking for places that make their workers happy, but you wouldn’t know that if you listened to city officials.
Officials said street vendors had to leave New York’s shopping districts because they were bad for business. Now the sidewalks are clear–not just of vendors, but customers, too.
Liz Krueger has battled bureaucrats, empowered the poor and prevailed in a tough campaign. But can she turn the most thankless elected job in New York into a force for…
