Winnie Hu

New York City officials and business leaders plan to expand sidewalks, add seating areas and trees and remove two car lanes to make the renowned avenue more pedestrian friendly.

Though the fires are occurring about as frequently as they were last year, fewer are happening inside buildings. And there are signs that new safety measures are having an effect.

American Transit, the largest insurer of the city’s for-hire vehicles, is insolvent. Its collapse could create a crisis that would take thousands of cars out of service.

At a volunteer-run center, migrants come together across cultures and religions to share flavors from their homelands amid a polarizing crisis. But funding is running low.

New census numbers show the steepest drop in the city’s youngest age group in at least a decade as many families have left to live elsewhere.

New York has ambitious electrification goals, but it lags behind other major cities in the United States significantly.

The three cases are among several filed by opponents of the tolling program, which was halted by Gov. Kathy Hochul this month.

The M.T.A. had planned on $15 billion in financing backed by the tolls of congestion pricing for a number of crucial upgrades and repairs to the aging transit system.

Their lawsuits argue that the tolling program would shift traffic and pollution to poor and minority neighborhoods and hurt small businesses.

The $15 billion expected from new traffic tolls is earmarked for modernizing old infrastructure but is threatened by a raft of lawsuits.