Everything you need to know about HDFC apartments in New York City, including income requirements and how to find affordable co-ops. Everything you need to know about NYC’s affordable housing lottery, ...

New York City’s affordable housing stock mostly consists of rental apartments, but for those who are in the market to buy, there is one reliable source for homeownership on a budget. Housing ...

When it comes to new developments in New York City, the supertall tower is still king: Many of the city’s most high-profile developments, from One World Trade Center to Central Park Tower, all exceed ...

Every month is seems like a new tower makes an appearance in the Downtown Brooklyn skyline, and that's not all that far from the truth. The transit-rich neighborhood is undergoing a precipitous boom ...

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For centuries, the one hallmark of New York City has been constant change. Even back in 1839, ex-mayor Philip Hone lamented that "the spirit of pulling down and building up" had gripped the city. "New ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...

New York City is by no means a place with a unified architectural style, and that’s one of the things that makes it so darn beautiful. But some of the city’s most iconic structures do share a common ...

The acronym NIMBY, meaning “not in my backyard,” and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,” entered the lexicon sometime in the early 1980s. The first NIMBY mention I can find in the New York ...

All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates ...

Traffic in New York has reached a crisis point. Between controversial congestion pricing measures, busway lawsuits, bike lane community meeting meltdowns—not to mention an uptick in fatalities this ...

When most people think of urban farming in New York City, they picture a bearded Brooklynite picking kale from atop a warehouse while drinking a home-brewed beer. And while that person does exist, ...