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The rate of homeownership continues to lag among Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American people, compared with America's white population. This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up [...]

Byline: Nikita Stewart In 'Live to See the Day,' the sociologist Nikhil Goyal tracks the lives of three teenagers as they try to balance school and survival in Philadelphia. LIVE [...]

A Ferguson activist will lead the Children's Defense Fund at a time when an impassioned civil rights movement is challenging racial injustice. Marian Wright Edelman, 81, took to the streets [...]

For the Fryson brothers, the year had begun on a hopeful note. They had finally reunited with their mother, Beatrice McMillian, after years of being in foster care. Ms. McMillian [...]

For some parents, work outside the home is impossible as they navigate complicated and frustrating systems for help. But they don't have to go it alone. To hear more audio [...]

Ms. Sanger, a feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer, supported a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding. Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name [...]

Though black protesters have been heartened by the many white people joining them in the streets, some wonder if this newfound commitment will last. Cherish Patton recalled springing into action [...]

Recent protests that have stirred a reckoning on racism helped bring thousands out to celebrate a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Thousands of people flooded [...]

The coronavirus has shattered the system that protects children, leaving some confined in troubled homes or lingering in foster care. Reports of child abuse in New York City have dropped [...]

The confrontation between a black bird watcher and a white woman walking her dog reminded many black residents that a diverse city can also be hostile. Samuel Roberts, a professor [...]

New Yorkers with no better place to go keep riding and sleeping on otherwise empty trains, stirring public health fears and prompting a nightly shutdown for cleaning. Every No. 2 [...]

The deaths revealed lapses in the monitoring of people sent to isolation, a critical part of the city's efforts to slow the outbreak. When Robert Rowe Jr. was discharged from [...]

Edward Gumbs is nothing if not essential. After equipping himself each morning with a cup of green tea, hand sanitizer, gloves and a mask, Mr. Gumbs travels to homes around [...]

We want to know how New Yorkers of all incomes are handling the challenges in getting food during the pandemic. With spiking unemployment in New York City, the need for [...]

Byline: Nikita Stewart Roy Coleman, a 69-year-old living in a homeless shelter on Wards Island, was taken away by ambulance after showing symptoms of Covid-19. The other shelter residents were [...]

Thousands of students living in shelters and doubled up in overcrowded apartments have not received web-enabled devices for online learning. Allia Phillips was excited about picking up an iPad from [...]

''Sometimes, the underdog gets their say, and it works out,'' a supporter said of the fight for the rent-controlled unit. Their relationship started the way many do -- Marguerite Valentin [...]

A New York nonprofit called Childrens Community Services was raided by the authorities, officials said. One company was supposedly based in a vacant house in New Jersey. Another company had [...]

A homeless man is fighting his case by invoking New York's ''castle doctrine,'' which gives people the right to defend their dwellings. Each night, Joseph Matos builds his home on [...]

A homeless man is fighting his case by invoking New York's ''castle doctrine,'' which gives people the right to defend their dwellings. Each night, Joseph Matos builds his home on [...]

The boy and girl were taken to the hospital after a call about a cardiac arrest, officials said. Two-month-old twins living in a New York City-financed homeless shelter in Queens [...]

Jazmine Headley sued over a confrontation with New York City workers that was captured in a widely seen video. The video spread quickly online: Security guards and police officers pry [...]

A law would mandate that affordable-housing projects built with city assistance must have 15 percent of the apartments reserved for the homeless. As New York City grapples with record numbers [...]

World's Big Sleep Out, drawing attention to homelessness, happened in New York, London and other cities. Jim O'Shea and Dan Niland sat atop a bright blue mat inside a secured [...]

The apartment of a formerly homeless woman was so cold the dog's water bowl froze. Raw sewage seeped into the basement of another woman's. Julie Rodriguez's apartment in Newark was [...]

In New York, hope sometimes comes at the price of the sun. The city welcomes poor immigrants, but its housing does not. Most rents are far beyond the means of [...]

One man was beaten with a metal bar as he slept on a sidewalk in Chinatown, his face mangled beyond recognition in one of the most brutal quadruple murders in [...]

After four days, the police were still struggling to identify one of the four homeless men who were brutally killed in Chinatown on Saturday, and questions abounded about how the [...]

Randy Santos is accused of going on a murderous rampage, killing four homeless men, after years of erratic behavior. Randy Rodriguez Santos was unemployed and living in an abandoned building, [...]

The brutal killing of four men occurred in a Manhattan neighborhood where the street homeless problem has long persisted. A police van idled and a single piece of yellow caution [...]

For 25 years, the Child Welfare Organizing Project, a group of mostly low-income black and Hispanic mothers in New York City whose children had been taken away from them, managed [...]

In the preface to ''The Geographical Reader for the Dixie Children,'' Marinda Branson Moore, a teacher who founded a girls' school in North Carolina, noted that she wanted to teach [...]

Latoya Joyner, a state assemblywoman from the Bronx, said she was raised by a loving adoptive family after her biological parents lost custody of her. The same was true for [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] Twin babies died in the Bronx on Friday after their father left them [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] The words were desperate and pleading. ''I am very afraid for my child's [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] New York City will spend $250,000 to help poor women who travel [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox. ] Patrice Joseph believed she was singled out when she complained about cigarette smoke [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] They are the most visible sign of New York's homelessness crisis: A man [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] In 2017, Ann was working as a home health aide in Brooklyn and [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox . ]Jazmine Headley, whose chaotic arrest at a public benefits office in Brooklyn two [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]In Manhattan, where multimillion-dollar real estate sales are downright routine, a hedge fund tycoon has [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]Two white girls in blackface grunted and swung their arms like apes. They jumped up [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]Jazmine Headley took her baby boy to a public benefits office in Brooklyn on a [...]

Tucked inside a neighborhood in a small town just north of New York City, Hawthorne Cedar Knolls was on idyllic, green grounds. It was landscaped to give some peace and [...]

Lily, a fuchsia Muppet with a mop of hair, green eyelids and a lavender nose, debuted on ''Sesame Street'' seven years ago. She was shy and soft-spoken. Her family, she [...]

The backyard disappeared four years ago. At its grandest, the backyard was beautiful, a place that turned into castles and faraway lands in the mind of a child. Monkey bars, [...]

Child welfare workers were asked to visit a modest home in Queens a year ago to check on a mother with five young children, because she had just given birth [...]

In the shadow of an elevated train line in the South Bronx, a short brick building partially topped with barbed wire is being fortified. Porcelain toilets have been replaced with [...]

The Administration for Children's Services is investigating the hiring of a convicted killer who worked as a counselor at a center for foster children in Manhattan and has been accused [...]

Robert Mattox was not in the position to own a home. He was raising seven children in 1980 when New York City turned his Harlem building into a cooperative. He [...]