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 ...

Puerto Rican-owned Buddies Coffee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn closed its doors for good. The closure came three months after co ...

The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.

The Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the number of people seeking shelter who are not migrants ...

City of Yes’ and 485-x incentives have spurred development, even as construction wage rules discourage big projects.

have long protested against the borough-based jail planned in the neighborhood but now propose moving construction.

An assessment by the New York City Housing Authority projects dire consequences of the president’s proposal to allow just two years of rental assistance to "able bodied" adults.

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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