Cavalier corporations let pregnant women take a drug that gave their daughters cancer. One survivor turned her story into a film that’s become an organizing tool for toxics, labor and…

Landlords have claimed for years that housing court is stacked against them, but a federal judge has shot down an eight-year-old law suit alleging that tenant friendly court administrators are…

The halls of PS 70 in Tremont were scary until a group of parents created their own security patrol. Now they are visible around the school, wielding walkie-talkies and lots…

With the 100th anniversary of New York City’s five-borough government looming next year, one reformer has a downsizing dream to change the city’s basic political structure.

New York’s main shopping drags are coming back. But many small commercial strips that could make low-income neighborhoods worth walking again remain bodega badlands. The city’s solution is suburban-style mini-malls.…

The city asks to excuse New York from federal public housing regulations–and tenants say no way.

There’s clamor of an upcoming garbage-dump crisis rising from the city’s waterfront neighborhoods.

A new report lays out the costs of the Governor’s proposed budget cuts for higher education.

A federal judge has ruled against a tenant group assertion that housing court in the city is stacked against renters.

State Republicans have been taking aim at the city’s rent regulation laws, and rules about the right to renew a lease are the latest issue on the table.