"The political climate has created a need for new skills — or superpowers — to facilitate the conversation," the Tenement Museum says.
Yuh-Line Niou would become the first Asian-American to represent Manhattan in the State Assembly's 65th District.
The state just announced a lawsuit against Marolda Properties and several of its landlords for allegedly making life hell for their tenants.
"The city has been trying to divide us and separate us," said a 21-year-old woman born and raised on the Lower East Side.
They are accusing the mayor of blatantly racist neighborhood rezoning policies that will increase racial tension in their areas.
"It is negligence on the city's park because they should've done better," said a leader of the tenants association.
The weeks-long gas blackout at 131 Broome St. has created an all-out health crisis in the building, tenants and advocates say.
“The Democrats are segregating Asian students, denying their hard work," one recent immigrant says.
"Most of the people we serve don’t even know who Bill O’Reilly is," said the program director of a Chinatown community association.
Anthony Shorris testified to City Council that flipping a nursing home to a luxury development was a failure of "process" and not "policy."
Tony Shorris is finding himself at the center of the nursing home scandal.
Here's how the Department of Transportation plans to improve Brooklyn-to-Manhattan transit ahead of the L Train's dreaded 2019 closure.
Yuh-Line Niou bested incumbent Alice Cancel and four other contenders for the seat held by Sheldon Silver since 1977.
The Lower East Side Partnership wants you to envision your perfect neighborhood streets online so they can put them into fruition.