The Department of Housing and Urban Development argues in its complaint that a failure to allow emotional support animals amounts to illegal disability discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name America's unsung or undersung heroes.
"The city is treating our private property as the city's housing stock."
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
Cristal Starling lost $8,000 after she missed one of several filing deadlines to contest the seizure of her money by police. A federal appeals court says she and others like her should be given more leeway.
New York politicians got out of the way for once, and something beautiful happened.
New York officials have primarily pitched congestion tolls as an easy cash grab for the city's subway system. New Jersey drivers and politicians aren't happy about that.
SeanPaul Reyes has been arrested and threatened by NYPD for filming in public places, including inside police precincts. He says that's a violation of his First Amendment rights.
In exchange for $1 billion, the state expected 5,000 jobs and 1,000 installations a week. Instead, it reported 1,700 jobs, most of them Tesla data analysts, and 21 installations per week.
State and local governments are moving forward with bans on gas stoves in new residences.
Environmental activists expect us to modify our lifestyles to meet their priorities.
Service cuts that reflect falling demand and zoning reforms that bring more fare-paying residents back to cities could shore up transit agencies' budgets.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.
The Manhattan case stinks of partisan politics, but Trump faces more serious legal jeopardy on at least three other fronts.
More than two years after legalizing recreational use, the state has just a dozen licensed retailers.
A bill advancing the New York State Assembly would require child welfare agents to inform parents of their legal rights when beginning an investigation of child abuse or neglect.
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
A bill that would expand wine sales in the Empire State is meeting familiar resistance from entrenched interests.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
The state defied a Supreme Court ruling by banning guns from myriad "sensitive places."
A pilot proposal to levy civil fines based on income is being considered by the City Council.
The serial fabulist is accused of wire fraud and lying to Congress.
Plus: Biden considering using the 14th Amendment to declare debt ceiling unconstitutional, Department of Energy makes mobile homes less affordable, and more...
Education officials unveiled new rules on Tuesday which will mandate that city elementary schools use one of three "research-backed" reading curricula.
Opposing sides of the debate around a New York City subway homicide have found unlikely common ground.
High taxes and heavy regulations are as effective as prohibition at creating black markets.
New York's budget deal includes a ban on gas stoves in new residential construction.
Enjoy a special video episode recorded live from New York City’s illustrious Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground.
Correcting the error will require new legislation.
Plus: Home equity theft at the Supreme Court, New York shows how not to legalize marijuana, and more...
Kathy Hochul isn't just waging a war on menthols. She's also floating a ban on all cigarette sales in the state.
The smell of weed in the streets is a sign of progress and tolerance, not decline.
"It is critical to our mission as a university to think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it," said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack.
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
The case against the former president is both morally dubious and legally shaky.
Plus: The editors respond to a listener question concerning corporate personhood.
Headlines about the 34 alleged felonies seem to have obscured newly revealed information about the weakness of the charges.
The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.
The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated.
Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
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