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With its decidedly '50s-era menu -- chili, cheese fries, shakes and half-smoke sausages, a distinctive regional specialty -- Ben's Chili Bowl, a restaurant near the Howard University campus, might not […]

Developers who for the last few years have been working full tilt in other parts of the city have recently set their sights on Capitol Hill, just to the east […]

WHEN Debbie Chewning started searching for her first home last year, she often drove from her rental apartment here to the bucolic streets of Takoma Park in Maryland, just across […]

THE enduring allure of the French Quarter coupled with the city's role as host to such spirited street parties as Mardi Gras and the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage […]

A man and woman locked in an amorous embrace tumbled again and again across three folding chairs. At first jerky and self-conscious, with each repetition the actors' movements became smoother […]

Setting up for a day in the studio behind his Cleveland Park home one recent morning, Lou Stovall, a master printmaker, plucked a jar of gray ink from a shelf […]

'The Declaration of Independence that was signed in ink in Philadelphia was signed in blood in South Brooklyn.' -- Anonymous During the last week of August 1776, the Continental army […]

The United States Postal Service is taking a bit of the stress out of the holiday season by extending weekday hours and opening for business for the two Sundays before […]

Scores of offices on lower Fifth Avenue were shut down yesterday as building managers continued to clean up the muddy mess caused by a break in a century-old water main […]

New York City would end its practice of keeping homeless women and children overnight in a shelter-placement office in the Bronx by doubling up families in shelters and expanding the […]

When Grand Central Terminal opened in 1913, the well-heeled traveler could dally at a Turkish steam bath, take a hot shower or freshen up in private changing rooms -- luxuries […]

After 72 years of repairing watches and selling last-minute birthday and anniversary gifts to commuters on the run, Grand Central Jewelry will go out of business on Dec. 31. The […]

For Dottie Calhoun, a Brooklyn landlord, owning property sometimes feels like treading water with pockets full of stones. 'Sometimes it seems like no matter how hard you try, you can't […]

The chairman of the New York City Housing Authority yesterday faced angry City Council members who charged that his agency lagged in its efforts to stop the stairwell fires that […]

After more than a decade of pitched neighborhood battles, court fights, environmental studies and last-minute deadlines over the fate of the New York Coliseum, the state and city have now […]

A State Supreme Court justice has temporarily barred New York City from denying emergency shelter to homeless families who fail to prove that they have no place else to go. […]

In the first major revision of New York City's housing policy in almost two decades, the Giuliani administration announced yesterday that it was ending the city's role as the landlord […]

In yet another setback to New York City's efforts to pry defiant squatters out of city-owned buildings in the East Village, a State Supreme Court justice ruled yesterday that they […]

Lou-Anne Walters and her mother had barely finished arranging furniture and hanging family photos in the apartment they bought in Brooklyn six years ago when their co-op started its free […]

At the end of each workday, as Jyreain Privette crosses the threshold of her apartment building in Harlem, she wonders if the lobby will be filled with drug dealers who […]

The City Council voted yesterday to extend the life of the agency that serves homeless people in New York City but warned that it must end the practice of using […]

There was a time when it was hard to find a sleepier place than a college campus in July and August. But nowadays, when students leave for the summer, it […]

Frustrated by high costs, community opposition and an inability to find public housing sites in white neighborhoods, city and Federal officials have all but abandoned an effort to build any […]

With about $1.5 million in Federal money for low-income housing available to the city last July, New York officials set out to use it. Working with a Lower East Side […]

In what Federal officials suggested could be the last big infusion of homeless-assistance money for years to come, the Government yesterday awarded New York City $100 million for emergency shelter, […]

New York City suffered a minor setback yesterday in its efforts to evict squatters from two buildings it owns on East 13th Street in Manhattan, but it also received a […]

With a show of force befitting a small invasion, the Police Department seized two East Village tenements yesterday, overwhelming a defiant group of squatters who had resisted city efforts to […]

The coincidence was striking. The very day the Walt Disney Company stakes its claim for a piece of New York with a development deal in the Times Square area, another […]

In the first tangible sign that the long-awaited redevelopment of a tawdry stretch of Eighth Avenue is more than a pipe dream, the Disney Development Company and a large New […]

A landlord and his wife were ordered by a State Supreme Court justice on Monday to spend 30 days in jail and pay nearly $2 million in fines for repeatedly […]

In past years, the annual ritual of setting rents for New York City's rent-stabilized apartments has gone something like this: A rancorous crowd of tenants and landlords loudly plead their […]

Opening what is certain to be a fierce debate, the board that controls rents in New York City's rent-stabilized apartments last night proposed that tenants in the cheapest apartments be […]

A state judge yesterday prohibited New York City from evicting squatters from three dilapidated city-owned buildings that city officials said were dangerous. Instead, the judge ordered the city to come […]

More than a decade after the city put the New York Coliseum in mothballs, setting off an often bitter series of negotiations over selling it to Mortimer B. Zuckerman, city […]

City housing inspectors will get special training to better recognize the kind of structural problems that caused the partial collapse of a Harlem building last month in which three people […]

Nine months after the Giuliani administration and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority promised to cooperate in getting the most out of the old New York Coliseum, the two sides remain deadlocked […]

Three former real estate management executives were ordered yesterday to pay $1 million in restitution to condominiums and cooperatives that they were accused of defrauding. But they avoided prison terms […]

A construction worker was killed yesterday when part of a building under demolition on the West Side of Manhattan collapsed, dragging down scaffolding he was on and flinging him 60 […]

As he has done dozens of times as partner of Brennan Beer Gorman, a Manhattan architectural firm, Henry Brennan traveled recently to one of his firm's recently completed projects to […]

City housing officials yesterday temporarily withdrew criminal and civil contempt charges against the owners of a Harlem building that collapsed last week, to allow a criminal investigation by the Manhattan […]

During the boom of the 1980's, Marcus I. Lehmann and Morris Wolfson heard the siren call of real estate and followed it to Harlem. Mr. Lehmann, 27 years old in […]

Overwhelmed by the expensive task of managing thousands of dilapidated apartment buildings that have become the city's property because their owners failed to pay property taxes, New York City has […]

Proposed cuts at the Department of Sanitation, about 10 percent of its budget, would not affect residential garbage pickup, street cleaning or street wastebasket collections, said Michael T. Carpinello, the […]

When 10-year-old Chris Frye peers from his window to the parking lot of the dilapidated Queens public housing complex where he lives, his mind's eye often sees a skating rink, […]

Over the strenuous objections of environmentalists, Harlem residents and some elected officials, the city gave Donald J. Trump permission yesterday to connect the first phase of his Riverside South development […]

For the first time in decades, the New York City Housing Authority will soon give preference to working people over welfare recipients in filling many vacancies at its apartments, a […]

In exchange for a pledge to keep more than 4,000 jobs in New York City for at least 20 years, the CS First Boston Corporation, a major financial company, will […]