Since 2009, New York City has been incentivizing private cleanup of contaminated sites. Who benefits?

After a historic oil spill and an unprecedented financial settlement, a Brooklyn community oversees its ecological repair.

The Bronx County Building embodies the New Deal era's ideals of robust government presence in everyday life, for better and worse.

When it comes to building schools, a little-known entity with radical roots has had an outsize effect on the city’s skyline. How can the Educational Construction Fund adapt an experimental ethos to changing times?

To secure New York City’s pipeline for local food, treat produce like tap water: Protect the source.

Getting to the bottom of a mysterious streak of purple cropping up along Manhattan’s eastern edge.

Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation.

Factory-farmed food fills most plates and stocks most supermarkets in New York City. But upstate, a scrappy network fights to build an alternative infrastructure to deliver better steaks and sausages.

People trying to stay connected to their loved ones in New York's jails and prisons must travel great distances and navigate intimidating rules and requirements.