This week: Election Law Litigation Deadlines; Brooklyn Democrats’ Leadership Fight Continues in Appellate Division; Webinar on New York Voting Rights Act; Attorney General’s Preclearance Activity; Test Census Raises…
by Gabriele Holtermann, Brooklyn Paper For years, the Metropolitan Detention Center has been a troubled neighbor in Sunset Park, with a record of violence, staff shortages, prolonged lockdowns, and other dangerous…
PoliticsNY’s latest special edition, Inside Government: Public Schools features the government officials shaping New York’s public schools and overall educational landscape.
I have given considerable thought to the current contest over the leadership of the Kings County Democratic Party.
In the 1970s, the building on East 140th Street housed a rehab center founded by activists demanding better health services for the Mott Haven neighborhood.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is opening a permanent walk-in jobs center in Lower Manhattan where New Yorkers can get help navigating public-service hiring, as city agencies continue to carry more than 14,000 vacant authorized…
Construction is set to soon begin on the first phase of 547-555 Summit Avenue, a pair of conjoined 47-story residential skyscrapers approved for Journal Square, Jersey City.
Foundations are progressing at 154 Stanton Street, the site of a six-story residential building on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has awarded a $19.7 million contract for the design phase of a resilience project to protect the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line from the effects of climate change.
Permits have been filed for a ten-story mixed-use building at 53 West Fordham Road in University Heights, The Bronx.
New York’s crackdown on physical mail in state prisons was supposed to help stem the flow of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs behind bars.
A vaguely written new law raises questions about how and when the state will take action against "informal" collaboration.
A Rikers Island detainee suffering from clear signs of medical distress waited for roughly 3 ½ hours in a clinic holding pen without being seen because jail officers didn’t tell medical staff he was having a medical…
The city is finally able to take advantage of the reduction in traffic to give more space to cyclists and pedestrians.
Last winter’s intense snow storms revealed the impossible promise of free parking.
Our editor read "Gridlock" Sam's new book — and it's good.
Richie O'Brien was 41.
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include an East Williamsburg row house, a Clinton Hill brownstone, and a house in Bay Ridge.
Construction awaits on the redevelopment of the Holland Gardens public housing project into a new 24-story mixed-use complex at 235 16th Street in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Construction is finished on the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, a $221 million coastal flood protection system in Battery Park City, Manhattan.
YIMBY recently visited the Melrose section of the South Bronx, where two new all-affordable residential buildings and a charter school are under construction.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 2074 McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
A Fort Greene Brownstone and More to See, Starting at $860K Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, and East Flatbush.
New renderings have been revealed for the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library–Pacific Branch at 25 Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Construction is finished on Sutphin Senior Residence, a 15-story affordable and supportive housing building at 97-04 Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 815 Kings Highway, a 19-story mixed-use building in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 2616 Harway Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
A federal grant rejected by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration that would have funded shelter for homeless veterans in New York City included clauses prohibiting the promotion of “gender ideology” and “denial of the…
The Mamdani administration stopped automatically sending police officers to investigate 311 complaints about homeless encampments this week, shifting the initial response to homeless outreach workers.