The Elizabeth Street Garden will remain open after a deal was struck between the city and the garden’s organizers.

The Elizabeth Street Garden, a beloved green space in Little Italy, will be saved after a long battle to preserve it.

Steven Colon and Jasmine Rosario say they agreed to let Kaila Ortiz stay in their unit for a short time, but now claim she refuses to leave and has threatened them and their landlord.

Imagine sleeping in a wire cage smaller than a prison cell, cockroaches beneath your back, and air so toxic it makes your lungs bleed. In cities like Manila and Jakarta, this is not an exception—it’s ...

At a refugee camp in northern Kenya, Aujene Cimanimpaye waits as a hot lunch of lentils and sorghum is ladled out for her and her nine children — all born while she has ...

The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived ... “They were literally ‘dumped’ at the Port of New York, with scanty clothing and absolutely penniless,” the Tribune ...

A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...

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The two MCs (T3 and Baatin) and rapper/producer (Dilla) formed Slum Village in 1996 ... on the jazz-infused sounds of “golden-age” New York crews like A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers ...

with just 8% of its urban population living in slums. In 2021, the New York Times reported that the worsening conditions of the pandemic had caused the Italian government to take action to develop ...