The New York City Authority (NYCHA) said it plans to tear down Fulton and Elliot-Chelsea homes for $1.5 billion and build new high rises for residents using private developers...

The Legal Aid Society and the Community Service Society are both calling for NYCHA to halt its $1.5 billion plan to demolish and rebuild the Chelsea-Elliot housing complex, housing up to 5,000 New Yorkers in over 2,000 apartments...

The father, Antonio Fierro, a 95 year old Italian immigrant, and his 70 year old son, Anthony, had lived in the Soho apartment for decades, long before it was a trendy neighborhood.

Controversy has erupted at West Prep Academy as the city plans to move the middle school into the shut-down Ascension Catholic school a few blocks away...

Some residents are not sold on the $1.5 billion plan unveiled by the city to tear down and rebuild the Fulton and Elliot NYCHA housing projects in Chelsea and many voiced their concern on Feb. 1 at the first public forum on the project...

Chelsea-Elliot residents continue to blast NYCHA $1.5B tear down plan for the Chelsea-Elliot Houses at the third public scoping meeting on Wednesday, voicing environmental, educational, and relocation concerns of the demolition plan...

In a bid to curb the dangers from fires started by defective lithium ion batteries charging indoors, the first of five public e-bike charging hubs opened in Cooper Square on Feb. 29...

The DOT held its first battery charging pilot program for 100 delivery workers on March 7 at Cooper Square in the East Village. Delivery workers are hopeful for the program, but see flaws in the station charging time, bike theft, and the rest of the 65,000 delivery workers that have not been accounted for yet...

Fans of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl, are petitioning for a statue to commemorate him with a statue in Central Park. So far, there are 5,507 total signatures across three different petitions that started on the same day of Flaco’s passing on Feb. 24. But getting Parks to agree remains a long shot that could require a 20 year wait...

Four restaurants recently began using the new city approved modular outdoor dining sheds to replace old ones that were set up during COVID-19 as part of the Department of Transportation’s new Dining Out NYC Program. Two of the establishments are in Manhattan...

The Legal Aid Society (LAS) and the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) jointly submitted comments blasting NYCHA’s Plan to tear down Fulton and Chelsea Elliot public housing and replace it with new towers run by a private developer...

An earthquake that registered a 4.8 in New Jersey on the morning of April 5 at around 10:23 a.m. rattled Manhattan, but government officials did not report any damages or injuries. A second aftershock measuring around 4.0 hit around 6 p.m...

The Tony Dapolito Recreation Center’s outdoor pool, also known as Carmine Street Pool, in Greenwich Village has been closed for four summers in a row and will remain closed to undergo renovations for yet another summer. The project cost has more than tripled since the reconstruction was started...