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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission heard a proposal to substantially renovate and convert Angel Guardian Home, an individual landmark, into a Yeshiva. On August 2, 2022, the NYC Landmarks ...

One year ago, in January 2020, the Expert Panel assigned by Mayor Bill de Blasio to study the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway issued its Final Report. Mayor de Blasio in 2019 appointed the seventeen-person ...

Image credit: New York City Council. Free representation in housing court for low income tenants will now be available citywide. On April 29, 2021, the City Council passed three bills advancing ...

On May 1, 2025, the Center for New York City and State Law and New York Law School celebrated Law Day with a special briefing featuring Department of Investigation Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber for a ...

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 ...