Last weekend, a friend of mine was accosted on 125th Street in Harlem. In broad daylight, about five black men wearing Black Panther-like uniforms surrounded him and demanded to know why he – a white ...

Loren Goldner goes on to say..... Jeremiah Moss came as a young man to New York City in 1993, in search of the Bohemia of which he had dreamed, growing up in a small, sleepy town in New England.

The New York City Council recently adopted rezoning plans for the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn. A New York Times’ editorial has characterized the legislative action as “saving a New York ...

Candidates looking to succeed U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel disputed the value of legislative experience during a debate Monday night, with some pointing to their work in Albany as evidence of political ...

There Goes the ’Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up; By Lance Freeman; Temple University Press; $25.95 In today’s New York, “gentrification” can be a dirty word. It conjures up images of ...

Gentrification is the talk of the town. But what exactly is gentrification? What produces it? And where do you fit in? This class will focus on gentrification as a process of urban change, considering ...

Mayor Adams has a housing "blueprint" for NYC, but when given a chance to save Harlem's One45 (right) and the hundreds of units it would have provided, he passed. Paul Martinka; SHoP Architects Mayor ...

Mayor Eric Adams visits Seneca Village at Central Park as a Juneteenth celebration is held in New York City. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Mayor Eric Adams was right to honor the ...

Jefferson Mao, an urban planning student who blogs at Flushing Exceptionalism, published a thought provoking piece entitled ‘Letter From Flushing: On Gentrification in an Unhip Place‘ last week on the ...

New York City, once heralded as the “city of dreams,” where grit alone was enough to make it, is now a place like any other major American city, increasingly made from steel and glass — and also ...

McDonald’s is gone, and the Manhattanization of the New York State Thruway has begun. Prepare to Instagram your pit stop. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly ...