A neighborhood congress has kept fractious enclaves working together–with money that will soon run out.

Detroit residents take back a neighborhood block by block. But can they turn abandoned houses into a new beginning?

A fire in Bed-Stuy that killed a 13-year-old girl was the direct result of a housing department policy to ignore grievous violations if the inspector can’t look around.

The annual ritual of festooning the lampposts of Brooklyn with political posters is threatened by an energized Sanitation Department–and political outsiders feel the pain.

Baruch Singer, one of the city’s most notorious landlords, may find that his recent purchase of a 52-unit apartment building from the feds will be rescinded because of his nasty…

If the state Republican Party has its way, the Working Families Party won’t be around to cause trouble in this fall’s election.