“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.

A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.

Like the president, New York City’s mayor has shrunk from sight amid anti-police protests.

In a global health crisis, political déjà vu becomes deadlier.

After the pandemic, the rich will barricade themselves further. National chains will supplant local businesses. And the gig economy will explode.

My students are stressed, their families are sick, and teachers like me are trying to hold it all together.

Spike Jonze’s “Beastie Boys Story” tracks the band’s evolution from sexist hoodlums to beloved Gen X heroes.

Even in a pandemic, we are stuck in the same nightmarish feedback loop of racist policy. The results are predictable and deadly.

Makeshift morgues and field hospitals are cropping up around the city as thousands die and tens of thousands fall ill from the coronavirus.

As New Yorkers self-isolate indoors amid the coronavirus lockdown, the normal music of the streets has given way to the ambulance’s horrid solo.

New York doesn’t have a density problem. It has an austerity problem.

A Bloomberg presidency would be a return to normalcy for America—a daunting prospect for everyone who isn’t white and wealthy.

The former New York mayor is trying to spend his way to the White House.

The influx of police officers into New York's subway system is part of a broader criminalization of poverty.

On Thursday, the New York City Council will vote on shutting down the jails on Rikers Island. Should new ones replace them, or is it time to reform criminal justice more broadly?

Guns rights advocates want more than just a victory. They want this newly emboldened conservative court to wield maximal power.

With monuments to a pair of trans activists instrumental in the 1969 uprising, New York City takes an important step toward inclusion.

Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences.

The House Judiciary Committee chair has been preparing for this moment for decades.

Two developers dreamed of building the biggest ferris wheel in the world. The project had Michael Bloomberg's blessing, while a Wall Street whiz named Big Rich pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in Chinese loans. What went wrong?