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The decision to close the shelter complex, once the city's largest, is a sign that the migrant crisis that has strained city resources is easing. New York City will close [...]

New York City is constantly changing, opening the door to both new battles over traffic and radical solutions. This is Street Wars , a weekly series on the battle for [...]

Many of their friends from Grand Rapids were 'moving back home and telling us how great it was.' So they followed suit. When Nick and Rebecca Gray lived in New [...]

Students across New York City are waiting up to an hour for school buses, as a driver shortage and conflict over a contract hamstring the city's ability to find a [...]

The City Planning Commission approved a major rezoning proposal that would ease restrictions on development. The plan faces headwinds in the City Council. Mayor Eric Adams's plan to ease New [...]

The bike-sharing program rewards users who help redistribute bikes around New York City. A few riders have figured out how to turn that into profit. It was the perfect New [...]

In New York, dance spots for tots and techno heads alike are thriving, with veteran D.J.s, oversize headphones and zero ''Baby Shark.'' At a recent dance party in Brooklyn, Berk [...]

Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order that directs every city agency to investigate whether they have land that can be developed. New York City is turning to its own [...]

Julien Howard, who is known as the Vélo Barber, travels around New York City by bike in search of the ''dopest'' places to cut hair. Imagine a barbershop where the [...]

With roots stretching back to the mid-19th century, the history of tattooing in New York City is bloodstained and a bit battered. Creativity has often flourished, but even through the [...]

The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. At two in the morning, when most of the South Bronx [...]

City officials said a pilot program had reduced the costs of feeding migrants, and that fraud prevention measures were ensuring that the cards were being used properly. New York City [...]

Robert Kirk, a retired jack of many trades, finds himself homeless at the age of 74 after a chain of events that could happen to almost anyone. His landlady in [...]

Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached a $112 billion budget deal that restored some unpopular cuts to key programs. After months of tense and protracted negotiations, Mayor Eric [...]

New census numbers show the steepest drop in the city's youngest age group in at least a decade as many families have left to live elsewhere. New York City has [...]

The city's budget is being finalized, and arts institutions, from the big to the small, are fearing the worst. Earlier this spring, I went to see Mark Morris's ''The Look [...]

Despite corporate promises and hiring campaigns, the ad industry is among New York City's least diverse job sectors. It shows in the work, critics say. Last summer, KFC ran advertisements [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was exploring whether to reinstitute a partial ban on face coverings in New York City over concerns about their possible role in hate crimes. Gov. [...]

An annual count by the city found more than 4,100 people sleeping on streets and in subways. It was the most since the city began keeping track nearly two decades [...]

A majority of the City Council supports a bill that would transfer the cost of most broker fees from renters to landlords. It is an expensive New York City rite [...]

A throng of New Yorkers stopped to gawk as a tall violinist bounced from one foot to the other, at times using his bow to tap the body of his [...]

New York City will give schools the option to send eighth-graders on field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage as part of an effort to address antisemitism. As tension [...]

Medical workers and police officers are removing people suffering from psychiatric distress. The most troubled are forced to the hospital. Inside a subway station in Lower Manhattan, a group of [...]

And just in time for a new city ordinance regulating pollution emitted by wood- and coal-fired ovens. Something is changing about New York City's pizza. It's not the continued farmers' [...]

After moving 10 times in 10 years, a woman found that a little luck was the best companion for a lot of hard work. She won a studio in a [...]

''We're going to be making a beat,'' Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily into their seats at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. ''I want you to imagine that [...]

When Donald J. Trump returned to the criminal courthouse at 100 Centre Street last week, a familiar feature of the New York City streetscape was there to greet him: a [...]

Civilian oversight boards face resistance across the country from those they are supposed to monitor. A New York case underscores the tension. Last year, a woman in Albany, N.Y., filed [...]

Byline: Ingrid Jacques Last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed hundreds of National Guard members to New York City's subway stations to search bags for weapons in an effort [...]

The altercation occurred at a migrant shelter in Queens following a dispute between the man and a shelter employee. New York City officials are investigating. New York City officials are [...]

Who comes to New York City? The ambitious. The competitive. The desperate -- to be famous, to be rich, to be beloved. But I've long thought that adopted New Yorkers [...]

The City Council is expected to join the Legal Aid Society in a lawsuit to force Eric Adams to implement laws aimed at reducing homelessness. The Legal Aid Society sued [...]

Upfront costs for renters -- security deposits, broker fees and a month's rent -- are at their highest levels in years, another sign of the city's housing crisis. Hannah Brooks [...]

Only 1.4 percent of the city's rentals were available in 2023, according to new data, the lowest portion since 1968. The market was even tighter for lower-cost apartments. New York [...]

Even on a chilly Monday evening, the wait at Cho Dang Gol was more than an hour. Crowds of 20-somethings spilled out of the homey restaurant in Manhattan's Koreatown, where [...]

A nondescript locker in a Lower Manhattan storage center is a portal to a New York City still plagued by crack, AIDS and rampant crime. A drug user squats for [...]

N EW YORK CITY doesn't have enough homes. The average New Yorker now spends 34 percent of pre-tax income on rent, up from just 20 percent in 1965. There are [...]