Joan Smith knew from a young age that her child was different. It started out with little things. At three, her daughter, Jane, who was assigned male at birth, was drawn to feminine clothing and opted ...

Holding banners in Chinese, English and Spanish, tenant unions, housing activists and local politicians rallied in front of City Hall Thursday morning to protest proposed rent hikes affecting roughly ...

You can find Bryant Park’s free bird watching tours in partnership with NYC Audubon at the following link: https://bryantpark.org/programs/birding-tours The New ...

NY City Lens illuminates the rich and varied life of New York City—borough by borough, neighborhood by neighborhood, one good story at a time. It is produced by students at Columbia University’s ...

NY City Lens illuminates the rich and varied life of New York City—borough by borough, neighborhood by neighborhood, one good story at a time. It is produced by students at Columbia University’s ...

Covid-19 has presented hardships all around, especially in the housing market. Small property owners are frustrated with New York State’s policies regarding their rental properties. They say it’s ...

Police and sanitation workers had arrived around 9:00 a.m. to remove Grima and three others from a line of tents outside a long-vacant school building on East 9th street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ...

Advocates for homeless people gathered outside City Hall on Friday afternoon to call on Mayor Eric Adams to put an end to the encampment sweeps that are underway across the city. Those present ...

At around 8:00 a.m. on March 30, Debra and Angel woke up to police officers demanding they leave their makeshift shelter under the Prospect Expressway. Sanitation workers broke up and discarded the ...

Despite his commitment to increase the budget for parks, Mayor Eric Adams cut $63 million from the Department of Parks and Recreation. During his campaign, Mayor Eric Adams committed to allocating one ...

NY City Lens illuminates the rich and varied life of New York City—borough by borough, neighborhood by neighborhood, one good story at a time. It is produced by students at Columbia University’s ...

The Church of St. Francis Xavier’s community group is a part of a collective endeavor to foster an unapologetically LGBTQ-affirming, woman-friendly Catholicism When Stephanie Samoy first entered the ...