Plan to Add 9,500 Homes to Midtown Expected to Get City Council Approval

The plan would open a swath of Manhattan, including the garment district, to residential development.

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Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School

The school, called BBS, enrolled 14 children in kindergarten through fourth grade and employed three full-time teachers and other staff members.

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Triangles, Crescents, Slivers: Can Odd-Shaped Lots Help Ease the Housing Crisis?

As needs escalate, more U.S. cities and states are making it easier to build on irregular and long-overlooked lots.

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Bally’s Bronx Casino Plan Appears Dead After Council Rejects Rezoning

The City Council vote all but dooms the company’s chances of obtaining one of up to three casino licenses that New York State is expected to award this year.

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Factories Were Pushed Out of Cities. Their Return Could Revive Downtowns.

Changes in zoning rules have allowed small manufacturers to return to the districts and neighborhoods they began leaving a century ago.

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With CEQA Scaled Back, California Hopes for a Housing Boom

After scaling back a landmark environmental law, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders are hoping for a construction boom.

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High-Demand Section of Brooklyn Will Be Redesigned, Adding 4,600 Homes

The plan, approved by the City Council, focuses on boosting residential development and job growth in a 21-block area along Atlantic Avenue in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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A Times Square Office Tower Will Be Converted Into Apartments

The 38-story building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan will be turned into 1,250 apartments.

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JD Vance’s Half Brother Advances in Race for Cincinnati Mayor

Cory Bowman will next face Aftab Pureval, the Democratic incumbent, who outperformed him in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary.

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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show

The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West Lake Hills would become public after neighbors complained.

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