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 ...

By Jeffrey M. Wice and Piper Benedict New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms envisioned by voters who endorsed the 2014 constitutional ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations for the 500 th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage. The ...

NYC DOT On June 18, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation announced an expansion on the crackdown on ...

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 ...