Mayor de Blasio at a ground-breaking (photo: The Mayor's Office on Flickr) Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that he will allocate much-needed additional funds to increase housing opportunities ...

We accept interns on a rolling basis, though we mostly put together cohorts along a three-season calendar of fall (Sept-Dec), spring (Jan-May), and summer (Jun-Aug). To apply, email editor Ben Max ...

This is the first in a series, to run between now and Election Day, examining Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record in key areas. Judy Stein has lived in New York City all of her life, and in Williamsburg ...

A 60-year old licensed asbestos remover who shuttled back and forth to the site of the World Trade Center as part of the cleanup effort, the father of an American born daughter who needs to be driven ...

Is the MTA’s plan to redesign the Queens bus network an improvement, or will it further destroy the bus system? Assemblymember Brian Barnwell from Maspeth wrote a letter to then-MTA New York City ...

On Thursday, June 11, hundreds of New York City Traffic Enforcement Agents and Supervisors stopped work for eight minutes and 46 seconds to commemorate the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ...

Protecting NYC from climate change (photo: Paige Polk/Mayoral Photography Office) Climate change seriously upped its impact this year in New York City. Hurricane Ida produced historic rainfall and ...

At City Polytechnic High School in Brooklyn some students take courses on engineering and architecture taught by college professors; they also can accumulate enough credits to graduate in just three ...

As students prepare to take the entrance exam for the city's elite, 'specialized' high schools, debate swirls about these top schools, their admissions processes, and the diversity - or lack thereof - ...

The 2019 New York City Charter Revision Commission is deliberating whether to propose to voters in November that a requirement for a comprehensive city plan be added to the charter. Should New York ...

In moments of crisis, we see what our leaders value. Over the past week, coronavirus has spread to Rikers Island. Our state should be focused on keeping detained New Yorkers and correctional workers ...

About half of high school kids in New York City have had sex. Roughly one in five female students admits she did not use protection the last time. Over 50 percent of students have never heard of ...