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Adele Sarno's father, a longshoreman, emigrated from Naples, and she grew up in Manhattan's Little Italy. As a child, she served as princess for the annual Feast of San Gennaro, [...]

The crushing news came less than a year after Diane Robinson and her 24-year-old son moved into an airy two-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. The city, which helps pay her [...]

A New York State program that helps finance affordable housing has contributed to delays in building and rehabilitating homes because of the questionable selection and lax monitoring of construction projects, [...]

Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of New York City public housing. Advocates for homeless people are demanding more apartments for families living in shelters. School officials want space in [...]

After riding the elevator to the top floor of a building in the Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn and scanning the rooftop, the police officers made their way back […]

Two years ago, Chastity Ciprian said she asked about the two top-floor apartments, long vacant in her four-story building at Harlem River Houses, a public-housing project at the northern tip [...]

Within the next year, New York is preparing to roll out an ambitious plan to get residents and businesses to separate their food waste from other trash -- initially on [...]

LONG BEACH, N.Y. -- Surfers railed against the project because they said it would interfere with the curl of the waves. Local businesses reliant on beach tourism hated it, too. [...]

HANCOCK, N.Y. IN a secluded spot here lies a vacationer's dream: a three-bedroom ranch-style house with 14 acres of woods roamed by deer and turkey, just minutes from prime trout [...]

Adjusting to shifts in the economy, states in the cap-and-trade system known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have slashed the number of allowances that electric power companies can buy [...]

The boat's captain was happy to clear up one misconception: Sewage does not necessarily stink. ''People think sewage is going to smell,'' the captain, John Lipscomb, said late Friday afternoon [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin inspecting school buildings in New York City next month for contamination with the toxic chemicals known as PCBs in response to a pilot [...]

After a 10-month study, Gov. David A. Paterson is leaving his successor an ambitious environmental plan to reduce New York's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the middle of [...]

A group of workers who claimed they suffered health problems as a result of being exposed to debris from ground zero during its removal and transfer to a landfill on [...]

The federal judge overseeing the settlement between ground zero workers and the city over health issues told the plaintiffs' lawyers on Friday that they should absorb $6.1 million in legal [...]

A federal judge formally approved a settlement on Wednesday between the city and workers who say their health was damaged during rescue and cleanup operations at ground zero, allowing the [...]

GRAND ISLE, La. -- On a beach where the sea breeze reeks of oil, about a dozen workers stoically shoveled contaminated sand into plastic bags on a recent afternoon, while [...]

They brought their hand-me-downs in paper bags and shopping carts, in backpacks and even the bottom rack of a wheelchair, dropping them off in hampers at a greenmarket stand on [...]

Nothing prepared Veronica Rodriguez for the call she got from a New York City health official last October. A blood sample taken from her 2 1/2-year-old son, Carlos Espinoza, had [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency designated the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn a Superfund site on Tuesday and announced plans to clean up more than a century's worth of noxious pollutants there. [...]

The way Marty Markowitz sees it, the rundown nine-acre park where Coney Island and Brighton Beach meet is ripe for a sparkling transformation. Mr. Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, envisions [...]

From Borough Park in Brooklyn to Morris Heights in the Bronx, many New York City residents will still have to walk more than 10 minutes to reach a playground or [...]

A New York State board has recommended a plan intended to make energy more affordable, efficient and environmentally friendly while helping to create jobs over the next 10 years, officials [...]

FOR two years, Valerie Williams had been considering making the five-bedroom home she grew up in more energy efficient -- hoping to shrink her $350 monthly utility bill -- but […]

General Electric has temporarily suspended dredging for contaminants in the upper Hudson River after water samples showed that chemicals from the cleanup had traveled several miles downstream. The Environmental Protection […]

Fighting to prevent the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn from being labeled a Superfund site, city officials are proposing an alternative cleanup plan that they say would still be overseen by […]

IN rough economic times, Lashelle and Mark Davis have cut back on treats like date nights, their outings to New York City from their Westchester County home for dinner and […]

The Nature Conservancy has sold 92,000 acres of forest in the Adirondacks to a Danish pension fund as part of a long-term strategy to protect the land from development. The […]

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to grant wilderness status to two million acres of public land in nine states from California to West Virginia, the largest expansion of protected […]

New York City must prepare for higher temperatures, more rain and an increased risk of coastal flooding in the coming decades as a result of global climate change, an advisory […]

JOHN FORSYTHE remembers the moment he knew the thrill was gone. It was six months ago, when a fill-up of his Toyota 4Runner topped $75, exceeding the pump's limit. He […]

WITH sweeping canyon views, gated access and nearby homes owned by the likes of Britney Spears, Ed McMahon's house above Beverly Hills looks like the symbol of a life well […]

THE Bonny Doon Garden Company, a downtown flower kiosk here, had signs posted all around it last week for Valentine's Day, but the sales pitch wasn't just about romance. A […]

She tells her story from a windowless bedroom in a cinderblock house carved into four apartments that share two showers and two toilet stalls outside. Her kitchen has no refrigerator […]

Carlin Ross and Christina Head, a lawyer and a documentary filmmaker in New York, recently teamed up to plot new careers. Among their first moves: Ms. Ross, 30, a general […]

ANNETTE OSNOS, who entertains frequently as an advertising sales manager for Business Week magazine, has not been explicitly told to cut back on costs, but in this economy 'it's somewhat […]

After three failed pregnancies, Jose and Paulina del Carmen Cardona were ecstatic at summer's end as each month ticked by and each trip to the doctor provided nothing but good […]

Not too long ago in this coastal city south of San Diego and a stone's throw from Mexico, residents said they felt under siege. Rick B'Tello, who manages the beachfront […]

Daniel Parker, a leader in business and government and the former head of his family's Parker Pen Company, died Tuesday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He […]