Matthew Eckstine grew up with stars in entertainment and sports and has kept company with celebrities and crack addicts.

Alourds Grandoit, 70, lost 10 relatives, including her husband, in the Jan. 12 quake in Haiti. No relief worker has visited her, but money and moral support have flowed from New York.As relatives in New York struggle to provide support after the earthquake, the process is remaking relationships already complicated by the strains of immigration and exile.

As investigators shift their focus to the mother in the fatal house fire on Staten Island, a lesson in why we should resist quick conclusions.

South Elliott Place, in Fort Greene, was once a working-class stretch plagued by drugs. It’s a different place now: homes that sold for $29,000 in the 1970s now go for $2.7 million.South Elliott Place: its characters and stoop sitters, its street sweeps and pig roasts, its brownstones and rentals, its bad old days and new gleam.

On Central Park West, a bleak family drama is unfolding, full of bitterness and court battles over a grand home worth a small fortune.

For generations, immigrants have sent their children back to Haiti in the summer to steep in a more traditional culture. This year, that routine has changed.

For generations, immigrants have sent their children back to Haiti in the summer to steep in a more traditional culture. This year, that routine has changed.

At the 14th Street Y, Kiki Schaffer instructs new mothers and fathers on how to shut out information overload and learn to trust themselves.

Households exchange home-cooked meals on a schedule, increasing variety and saving time and money.

Leon Britton Jr., 20, one of 16 graduates of the Bronx Fatherhood Program, spends his days balancing work and his young family.