That is, when people follow their hearts and instincts to re-energize dead zones that we used to call slums. And do so without the zoning changes, subsidies, and political machinations required to ...

How flash photography put a spotlight on New York's rampant poverty in the late 1800s, catalyzing the demolition of the city's biggest slums ...

A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim.

In 1924, Smith, the popular, cigar-chomping product of New York City's immigrant slums, began appointing the Yale- and Oxford-educated Moses to commissions that enabled him to start accumulating ...

New York City is recovering after parts of the city were inundated Friday with more than 8 inches of rain in just hours.

If Zohran Mamdani looks comfortable on camera, there’s a reason for that. The 33-year-old democratic socialist stunned the political world after he was backed by voters in the Democratic mayoral ...

This week, New York City crowned Kathleen Corradi its first rat czar. The new position is part of a multipronged approach from city officials. Reporter and New Yorker Anil Oza called up ...

When New York City Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, banned ChatGPT in January, Jenna Lyle, the deputy press secretary of the NYC Department of Education said in a ...

Democratic candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won the popular vote in New York City on Tuesday, but by a smaller margin over their Republican counterparts, Donald Trump and JD Vance, then in ...

Thanks to emigration triggered by the Famine, people born in Ireland comprised almost one third of the total population of New York by 1855. The city was changed forever - but how? Anelise Hanson ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book, "How the Other Half Lives." ...