On July 1, 2025, the Department of Parks and Recreation joined elected officials and community members to celebrate the reopening of the Strong Street playground in the Kingsbridge Heights section of ...

Congressman Dan Goldman speaks at the 199th CityLaw Breakfast at NYLS on June 17th. Image Credit: CityLand. By Ili Pecullan ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mark Chiusano For part two of Cityland’s candidate questionnaire on public space, we asked how the top Democratic mayoral hopefuls would reform the way ...

Rendering of the proposed new building at 250 Water Street, which will replace a parking lot. Image Credit: NYC LPC Zoning is under attack in New York City. Not here or there, in this location or that ...

By Ili Pecullan Weighing in on land use decisions is one of the key responsibilities of a borough president in New York City, and several land use themes came up in a recent debate among the three ...

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, ...

How small is too small when it comes to trip hazards on New York City sidewalks? New York courts, grappling with this issue for over 125 years, have declined to advance a standard based solely on the ...