Streets 2024 in Queens. The program opens city streets for live entertainment, programming, fitness classes and fun ...

On June 12, 2025, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) unveiled its updated 2025 Design Guidelines, which is a resource provided for internal and external partners regarding requirements, ...

NYC DOT On June 18, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation announced an expansion on the crackdown on ...

By Jeffrey M. Wice and Piper Benedict New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms envisioned by voters who endorsed the 2014 constitutional ...

New York City has a long and rich history of scandal and corruption. Here are three examples from favorite books that visit past scandals in complete and revealing detail. The James Marcus Scandal: ...

Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations for the 500 th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage. The ...

Trees under the common law were considered natural conditions with the result that possessors of land were not liable for injuries caused trees. Professor William Prosser wrote in the first edition of ...

Mayor Eric Adams. Image Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Pei Pei Cheng de Castro & Jennifer Hopkins On November 6, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly executed a ...

Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents. Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical ...

Credit: CityLaw New York State in 2021 must redraw the State’s senate, assembly and congressional districts. The process will be different from the process used to draw legislative and congressional ...

When municipalities are sued in tort, two of the most powerful bars to recovery are the public duty principle and the governmental function immunity defense. When these two principles are applicable, ...