Mayor de Blasio at a ground-breaking (photo: The Mayor's Office on Flickr) Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that he will allocate much-needed additional funds to increase housing opportunities ...

When Chimore Mack Glover recently turned 21, she aged out of the New York City foster child program and so needed a place to live. "I usually plan things ahead of time, and my first step was to get a ...

We accept interns on a rolling basis, though we mostly put together cohorts along a three-season calendar of fall (Sept-Dec), spring (Jan-May), and summer (Jun-Aug). To apply, email editor Ben Max ...

At City Polytechnic High School in Brooklyn some students take courses on engineering and architecture taught by college professors; they also can accumulate enough credits to graduate in just three ...

This is the first in a series, to run between now and Election Day, examining Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record in key areas. Judy Stein has lived in New York City all of her life, and in Williamsburg ...

A 60-year old licensed asbestos remover who shuttled back and forth to the site of the World Trade Center as part of the cleanup effort, the father of an American born daughter who needs to be driven ...

Protecting NYC from climate change (photo: Paige Polk/Mayoral Photography Office) Climate change seriously upped its impact this year in New York City. Hurricane Ida produced historic rainfall and ...

Is the MTA’s plan to redesign the Queens bus network an improvement, or will it further destroy the bus system? Assemblymember Brian Barnwell from Maspeth wrote a letter to then-MTA New York City ...

In his attempt to plug looming gaps in the state budget, Governor George Pataki has proposed in his new executive budget a series of measures that, by the New York State Education Department's ...

On Thursday, June 11, hundreds of New York City Traffic Enforcement Agents and Supervisors stopped work for eight minutes and 46 seconds to commemorate the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ...

Jenna Orkin of 9/11 Environmental Action doesn't think much of what's happening at Ground Zero. "This is a rush job," she said. "The reasons have to do with image and politics." Patricia Noonan of the ...

One magnificent memorial to remember every precious life lost. An appropriate recognition of the uniformed rescue workers who willingly and selflessly gave the supreme sacrifice to save others. Keep ...