Paige Spiranac turned heads at the "Happy Gilmore 2" premiere in New York City this week. The stunning golf influencer, who ...

No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...

Marie Hippenmeyer/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the favelas of São Paulo, the World Bank is making incremental improvements, like sewers and potable water. Close to 120 years have passed since Jacob Riis ...

New York State lawmakers recently agreed on historic affordable housing legislation to protect millions of New York City dwellers. However, a former lawmaker believes the landmark deal would ...

Museum of the City of New York. Now that Riis lives on in the name of a public housing project in a system that comprises the city’s worst current slums, a good case can be made that he went too ...

The suburban dream began, arguably, at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 and ’40. “Highways and Horizons,” better known as “Futurama,” was overwhelmingly the fair’s most popular ...

In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.

When the Vanderbilts Lived in a Slum. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will ...

In America, the word "poverty" is often associated with urban slums — poor, dangerous neighborhoods in big cities such as New York and Chicago. But in the past decade, according to a Brookings ...