Eliza Shapiro

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.

How to Make New York City More Affordable: 40 Big Ideas

With voters anxious about the cost of living, politicians are eager to show how they are trying to help alleviate the crisis.

The average tuition of $65,000 a year at private schools has separated New York’s truly rich, who can afford to pay full tuition, from its merely wealthy.

The new Harlem Meer Center, opening early next year, will serve the largely Black and Latino communities surrounding the northern end of the park.

The quick selection of Melissa Aviles-Ramos to lead the New York City school system seemed intended to quell a deepening crisis that has seen several top officials resign.

A group of New York’s most powerful philanthropies will spend millions to help make migrants more self-sufficient.