As the MTA's $55 billion modernization plan unfolds, New York faces a critical question: can it keep pace with global cities that have already mastered large-scale transport overhauls?
As New York grapples with median rents exceeding $3,800 in Manhattan, housing advocates and municipal leaders outline competing visions for tackling the affordability crisis.
From Venezuela to the Democratic Republic of Congo, instability abroad is reshaping neighborhoods across the five boroughs, testing the city's capacity to welcome while raising urgent questions about integration and resources.
As the city grapples with a vacancy tax and zoning reforms, experts say its approach offers lessons—and warnings—for global peers facing similar affordability crises.
From devastating floods in Red Hook to record heat in the Bronx, the city's environmental wake-up calls transformed policy and sparked grassroots action across all five boroughs.
From the battle over Williamsburg's waterfront to restrictive single-family zoning in Forest Hills, the policy decisions of the 1990s and 2000s created today's affordability emergency.
City leaders and university presidents warn that staffing gaps could undermine learning outcomes across the five boroughs without immediate intervention.
With violent incidents in transit stations up 18% since May, the department must choose between aggressive enforcement and community-focused strategies ahead of the busy summer season.
As the city grapples with crumbling subway infrastructure and aging bridges, the statistics paint a stark picture of deferred maintenance and mounting costs.
A decade of delayed zoning reforms, stalled development projects, and competing visions for the city's future have converged into a fiscal and political standoff that now dominates City Hall.
Community members along East 125th Street say the city's latest zoning overhaul fails to protect long-term affordability as developers eye their neighbourhood.
New data reveals dramatic shifts in where New York's immigrant communities are settling, with outer boroughs experiencing unprecedented growth while traditional ethnic enclaves see historic declines.
As the City University of New York faces its steepest funding cuts in a decade, students across all five boroughs are bracing for reduced course offerings and overcrowded classrooms that could derail graduation timelines and job prospects.
