Despite the last-minute denials in an op-ed column recently published in these pages, there’s actually good news regarding replacement energy for Indian Point’s 2,060 megawatts once it goes offline in ...

NEW YORK -- The trendsetting public health initiatives that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has successfully pushed -- smoking bans in restaurants, bars and public places, as well as health inspection ratings ...

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 ...

For most New Yorkers, the city’s private sanitation industry is mostly out of sight, out of mind. Yet it impacts us in major ways. The industry’s old trucks chug and idle along inefficient routes, ...

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 ...

It was a relatively quiet morning in front of Atlantic Center-- the usually buzzing Brooklyn shopping complex kitty-corner to the site of Atlantic Yards. Mikey Richardson, 29, had a Target bag in one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...