An air quality alert was in effect for New York City. According to the National Weather Service, the alert is in effect until ...

“Boom, within a couple of weeks, it was on the map,” he said. It’s a New York pastime to gripe that neighborhoods are invented and defined by real estate brokers, developers and other city ...

Help us map New York City’s neighborhoods. Debates about the boundaries (or even the existence!) of hundreds of New York City neighborhoods are as old as the city itself. We’re trying to ...

There is no evidence of a safe level of exposure to some of the pollutants, meaning that smoke can impact your health even at ...

This map, built by Gothamist with police data and reporting by our journalists, shows how shootings over the last four years have been heavily focused on a small number of New York City blocks.