Eliza Shapiro

When the city becomes a “luxury product,” even the comfortable start to rebel.

Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, would make some public benefits available to everyone. Andrew Cuomo, his top challenger, wants to help the neediest residents.

The number of city households with three or more children has dropped by nearly 17 percent over the past decade as families struggle with the cost of child care and rent.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, once called for defunding the police and decriminalizing prostitution. He says he has changed.

Mamdani’s Voters Want Free Child Care. Here’s How He Could Do It.

Andrew Cuomo is basing his new line of attack against Zohran Mamdani on a certain definition of wealth. But the reality is complicated.

New York City’s renters have been shaping local politics since the rent strikes of the early 1900s. A new museum exhibit illustrates some of the early struggles.

The Robin Hood Foundation, one of New York City’s biggest charities, is navigating tensions between its wealthy donors and the nonprofits it funds.

For 20 years, Dr. Purva Merchant has been answering letters from gaptoothed children and their parents — roughly 6,000 in all. “Happy growing up,” she typically replies.

In the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, a pastor is devoting his time to building affordable housing for his congregation.

Does a product that promises to “externalize the primary caregiver’s brain” actually work?

Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders of New York’s Hasidic communities, which tend to vote as a bloc.

A potential last-minute addition to the state budget would amount to a major victory for Hasidic Jewish leaders.

Parents are fed up, and the candidates for mayor appear to be paying attention. Many have built campaigns on a promise to make New York more affordable, with child care as a centerpiece.

New York City is facing a shortage of preschool programs. Real estate developers have discovered that providing day care in their buildings can be good for business.

Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.

Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills.

A contentious plan to build two 10-story towers illustrates how a pressing shortage of affordable apartments has started to change the politics around development.

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