Left-wing mayoral candidates and a newly launched “housing justice” group are promising a multiyear rent freeze on the city’s ...

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That is, when people follow their hearts and instincts to re-energize dead zones that we used to call slums. And do so ... s happened since testifies to New York City’s unparalleled regenerative ...

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...

Kenmare Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just above Little Italy, was named after an Irish immigrant’s mother. The story of Kenmare Street in downtown New York City is one of famine ...

This new form of amusement arrived to New York City from wealthy British tourists eager to compare slums abroad to those back home. Spreading across the coast to San Francisco, the practice ...

NEW YORK-- Last week's historic flooding in the New York City area has raised three key questions: Why is New York so flood-prone, what's being done to prevent it and what are other cities doing?