Helen Thomas

“New York has been a longtime safe haven for abortions, with 10 percent of abortions performed in the state in 2019 being out-of-state residents, and is gearing up for a…

The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) took over as the main city agency handling street vendor enforcement last June. But the NYPD remains active in enforcement, too. Together,…

theillinois.news rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi Talwar A view of The Bronx from the…

The declaration will allow the the city to open a new intake facility specifically for asylum-seekers and immigrants who have made their way to homeless shelters. It will also allow…

In 2021 alone, New Yorkers purchased 7,645 homes with prior flood damages that totaled more than $23.5 million. The state’s current flood disclosure law contains a loophole that “stacks the…

Just six units remain occupied in one section of the Arlington Village complex. Now, those who remain worry about what the owners’ plan to develop the site will mean for…

Councilmember Julie Won issued a list of “land use principles”  she said she will apply to new projects in her district that require Council-approved changes to the city’s zoning code—including…

Se calcula que unos 5.19 millones de personas se han naturalizado desde el 2016 en los Estados Unidos, y la gran mayoría de ellos, 4.4 millones, lo hicieron tras la…

“Our leaders seem blithely unaware that we have within our grasp a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a transit hub worthy of New York, which many of us still think of…

The decision Friday marks the first time a New York court has ruled that minimum-income policies for people with full-rent subsidies violate city and state laws, said Housing Works senior…