Aaron Ginsburg

New York City has released an interactive map identifying more than 100 city-owned sites where it plans to build over 50,000 new homes.

Due to work on the Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resilience project, the +POOL team says piloting of the self-filtering pool has been pushed back to 2027.

The site of the historic Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side is slated to become a mixed-use development with 99 apartments. As one of the last remaining undeveloped parcels in the city’s decade-long Essex Crossing

New York City has given homeowners who received notices that they may be subject to the new pied-à-terre surcharge an extra four weeks to apply for exemptions, following criticism over the rollout of the notices. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Department of Finance (DOF) Commissioner Richard Lee on Saturday announced

A housing lottery launched last week for 209 affordable apartments as part of a huge new mixed-use community taking shape in East New York. The available units at 882 Fountain Avenue are part of the second phase of the Alafia development, a new 27-acre neighborhood with thousands of apartments and health and wellness amenities. New Yorkers earning 40, 60, and 70 percent of the area median income can apply for the units, priced from $830/month studios to $2,745/month three-bedrooms.

A new housing development in Hunts Point will deliver 96 supportive and affordable homes for formerly unhoused New Yorkers. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday broke ground on the Doe Fund’s Casanova Residence at 658-674 Casanova Street in the Bronx. Of the 96 homes, 38 affordable units will be available through the city’s housing lottery system, while the remaining 58 units will be reserved for vulnerable populations.

Crown Heights takes the crown for the best landscaped block in Brooklyn once again. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Tuesday named Lincoln Place between New York Avenue and Nostrand Avenue as the winner of its annual “ Greenest Block in Brooklyn ” competition, the fourth time the block has come in first. As a whole, the neighborhood is no stranger to the green accolades: a residential block in Crown Heights has won four of the last five contests.

Each year, New York City loses another piece of its history as beloved neighborhood establishments and longtime businesses close their doors, like

The sturdy steel vending machines with giant buttons and colorful displays that spit out MetroCards to commuting New Yorkers for 30 years are now a thing of the past, with the ubiquitous rollout of OMNY. But some transit enthusiasts can relive the glory days of the devices: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday said it is auctioning off a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines. Note that the winning bidder must pick up the machines, which weigh over 1,000 pounds, themselves.

More than a dozen new bills will be introduced in the New York City Council this fall that aim to curb illegal electric bikes and scooters, one week after a 17-year-old riding an illegal motorized bike was hit and killed by an SUV. Speaker Julie Menin and several other council members announced plans to hold a hearing