As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...

A proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate a cap on New York Supreme Court justices faces opposition from the statewide ...

A new study has ranked the US states in order of how well they would fare in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

The vast majority of the people who live here – more than 80% on average – were born in New York. Those are some of the ...

Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.

The state’s population is bouncing back after almost half a million New Yorkers packed their bags and moved away amid the coronavirus pandemic. Since 2022, more than 100,000 people have moved ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed sparing low-density neighborhoods from future rezonings, bucking a recent trend in which policymakers have focused development efforts on those same neighborhoods.

The population is spread out among 3.8 million square miles across 50 states, yet nearly one-third of Americans live in just three states: California, Texas and New York.

That new zoning allows far more units on a site than has been previously permitted. These bulky high-rises are possible thanks to the state legislature, which removed the floor area ratio (FAR) cap in ...

New York State’s population grew by nearly 130,000 residents in 2024, its largest one-year increase since before the pandemic, largely due to a wave of immigrants moving to the Big Apple ...

Boosted by a surge in foreign migrant border-crossing, New York State’s population has rebounded from its post-pandemic lows since 2022, according to updated Census Bureau estimates. As of mid-2024, ...