About six miles uptown, if you’re getting sun in Central Park or beating the heat with a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, make a quick detour to Madison Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets.

A professor of sociology at City College, the 69-year-old Helmreich walked almost every street -- nearly 125,000 blocks -- from the best-known, like Times Square in Manhattan, to the most remote.

NYC may start cracking down on this common violation seen every day on city streets A Queens lawmaker believes catching violators would increase pedestrian safety, reduce commute time, and address ...

These two functions streets are tightly linked -- the more pavement that’s put down to handle traffic, the faster rainwater will flow to sewers -- but the city departments that oversee those ...

City officials are looking for ways to improve the program, which reached a peak of 83 miles of open streets but now is down to slightly over 20 miles, according to a recent New York Times analysis.