This year, the country turned 250, and the New York Historical marked the occasion with an exhibition called “Democracy Matters.” The show, as described by the Historical’s website, asks some ...

New York-area residents should brace for a rough Saturday evening as a line of severe thunderstorms threatens to bring damaging winds, heavy downpours, flash flooding — and possibly isolated tornadoes ...

The New York City Health Department says two people have now died in connection with a Legionnaires' disease outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The department confirmed the second death late ...

Groundwater flooding is the invisible kind, the kind that seeps up from the ground into our basements. So, we often see social media posts of the sort of flooding going into the s ...

New Jersey wants some of that green. After the World Cup final is played on a natural-grass field at what FIFA has temporarily rebranded "New York New Jersey Stadium," the soccer association plans to ...

Hudson County Executive Craig Guy is using a small, $570,000 loan to develop plans for transforming a set of publicly owned parking lots in Jersey City into 700 new apartments, including over 200 ...

According to the National Weather Service, Friday morning’s relatively clear skies will be short-lived. By Friday afternoon and evening, more of the eerie smog that blanketed the city on Thursday will ...

Big checks from Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula were among new details in campaign finance reports filed this week with the state Board of Elections. The filings show that Hochul built a significant ...

Con Edison should have done more to secure the area around a Midtown Manhattan manhole that a woman fell into, causing her death, her family said in a lawsuit filed this week. Donike Gocaj, 56, ...

The Health Department announced the first death in the ongoing outbreak linked to dozens of water-cooling towers.

Climate change has caused wildfires in Canada to grow more frequent and more intense, which creates a viscous cycle as the blazes pump more carbon into the atmosphere.

A Gothamist review of city-approved plans show that columns below a major expansion of the existing structure were to be reinforced.