The New York gubernatorial candidates Andrew M. Cuomo and Rick A. Lazio have long rankled each other.

The New York gubernatorial candidates Andrew M. Cuomo and Rick A. Lazio have long rankled each other beyond differences on policy.

Police officers pursue a tactic known as “Stop, Question, Frisk” in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, aiming to stop crime before it happens.

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development will use $32 million from its budget to resolve a crisis that put thousands of families in jeopardy.

Bronxdale Houses will be renamed in honor of the Supreme Court justice, who spent much of her childhood there.

Critics of a public housing development said the city’s plan favored whites and Hasidic Jews.

The New York City Housing Authority, facing a deficit, is weighing an unprecedented move that could cause 10,500 families to lose their apartments.

There is resistance to a sweeping plan to shoehorn up to 6,000 affordable homes into parking lots and other open spaces.

A complex public-private deal will help repair and run 21 housing developments that had received no subsidies for years.

The residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Rehabs said they had complained for years about poor conditions. Then, the night before a press conference, a squad of repairmen showed up.