New York City’s affordable housing stock mostly consists of rental apartments, but for those who are in the market to buy, there is one reliable source for homeownership on a budget. Housing ...

After years of planning, the city released the Sunnyside Yard Master Plan that will guide the creation of some 12,000 affordable units and 60 acres of parks and public infrastructure atop a sprawling ...

The former creative director of J. Crew opened up her Soho home for a tour—and it’s as stunning as you’d expect. Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, restored to its 1920s beauty The architect’s ...

The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules and the ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...

The acronym NIMBY, meaning “not in my backyard,” and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,” entered the lexicon sometime in the early 1980s. The first NIMBY mention I can find in the New York ...

All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates ...

Traffic in New York has reached a crisis point. Between controversial congestion pricing measures, busway lawsuits, bike lane community meeting meltdowns—not to mention an uptick in fatalities this ...

On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...

Down on the Red Hook waterfront, a part of Brooklyn’s history is being erased. This week, two of the neighborhood’s most significant historic industrial structures—the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse and ...

In the fall of 1988—in a scene so cliche it’s sometimes hard for me to believe that it actually happened—I arrived at Port Authority bus terminal with a suitcase, a blank check from my parents, and a ...

There is a spot, walking north on the High Line toward West 30th Street, where Hudson Yards looks almost all right. The Shed, wearing a pillowy parka made from weatherproof ETFE panels, slides in from ...