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Landlords have to keep tenants warm in the winter, but can leave them sweating in the summer. A city councilman wants to change that. As New York City endures its […]

In many New York City homeless shelters, families need a doctor's note to have air-conditioners. But some residents say shelters still make it difficult to get them. The sun was […]

Global warming has led to more extreme weather earlier and later in the year, causing New Yorkers to rethink their relationship to the seasonal calendar. As spring turned to summer [...]

In the latest front in New York City's fight against the proliferation of trash and rats, city officials plan to require restaurants and bodegas to set out trash in containers [...]

Hurricane Sandy woke up New York City to an existential crisis. It made clear that climate change -- rising seas, more powerful storms and extreme heat spurred by burning fossil [...]

Ten years ago, as Superstorm Sandy bore down on New York City, I was standing in knee-high, yellow rubber boots on the ground floor of the Downtown Manhattan building where [...]

A New York City clean-air program allows citizens to report idling commercial vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines. Some drivers respond with fists. A white-paneled truck sat [...]

Under a bill passed by the City Council, the mayor is required to create a plan to deal with the wide-ranging threats of climate change, from flooding to extreme heat. [...]

The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar moments of life in New York City and its suburbs into something otherworldly, waterlogged and frightening. City buses turned into [...]

And what the City Council is about to do to change that. How bad is New York's trash nightmare? So bad that, back in 2013, officials frantic to subdue the [...]

Before you rent or buy that new home, look up and listen. One of the most unpleasant moving-day surprises is a constant procession of low-flying planes and the noise that [...]

Early Sunday morning, with temperatures in the single digits in the city, the subway became the shelter of last resort for some of New York's homeless. On just one E [...]

New York City experienced the magic of a drastic weather change last week. From Monday to Thursday, New Yorkers had their first break from winter's grip as the city took [...]

Byline: Chris Mooney New York City's ability to withstand hurricanes could hinge on the state of the Antarctic ice sheet some 8,000 miles away, according to a study published Monday. [...]

When Stephanie Schneider of Brooklyn began planning her wedding eight months ago, she knew that a January event presented the risk of inclement weather. But it never occurred to her [...]

There were the workers who boarded a Manhattan-bound subway train before sunrise in boots and denim shirts, looking for a place to sit between the men sprawled out and sleeping [...]

Rodolfo Castro, 60, was waiting for a bus on Junction Boulevard in Jackson Heights, Queens, this week while the sun shone bright, the humidity felt like a wet blanket and [...]

You know the look. No scarf, gloves or hat. Hands balled in pockets. For the city's cold-weather deniers, winter was officially over this week: They would not bundle up even [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIT'S official. April is no longer the cruelest month. February moves into the top spot. Any nay votes? I thought not. And March has been no bargain, either, up [...]