New York

Some cities are change zoning laws to free smaller supermarkets from having to supply parking spaces in order to provide enough nutritious food to low-income residents.

New York City's planning commission recently approved a plan to revitalize Coney Island.

The Lighthouse at Long Island is a proposed 5.5 million sq. ft. of mixed-use development covering 150 acres of Nassau County. The developers see it as a new form of smart growth suburbia.

A NY-based landscape architect, Thomas Balsley, FASLA, has created a new type of green roof using Austrian pines.

Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara's pictures document Harlem's journey from a "rundown version of Paris" in the 1970s to the "global Harlem" of luxury condos and corporate franchises [includes slideshow].

New Jersey Transit has broken ground on what may be the nation's most costly transit project: a commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River to a new Penn Station Expansion that, to the chagrin of transit advocates, will not connect to Penn Station.

New York City is considering new legislation that seeks to address problems brought by the national recession to stalled construction sites and New Yorkers endangered by them.

The first phase of the High Line is finished and ready for strolling as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cut a red ribbon on Monday morning.

A segment of New York City's High Line elevated park is set to open this week. New York Magazine looks at the real estate and architecture booms that's accompanying it.

Planners in Park Slope have been experimenting with adjusting the price of on-street parking during peak hours on busy Fifth Avenue.

Less than a week after Times Square became an outdoor lounge, it is already hard to find a seat there.

Starting June 6th, several streets in Brooklyn will be pedestrian- only.

According to government officials and real estate executives, Frank Gehry is out as the architect for Barclays Center arena.

The Planning Board of Buffalo has urged the developers of a new hotel on the waterfront to make design changes so that it looks less "bunkerlike".

The solution to transportation problems in New York lies not just with the city and the state, but also with the federal government.

Collecting Census data can be a daunting task. But in some places, like New York City, just finding the people to survey can be most of the challenge.

"Getting There" columnist Cathy Woodruff investigates the use of cobblestones in Albany's historic neighborhoods.

A tour examining 'the future of work' looks at several 'coworking communities' around Manhattan, where freelancers and small businesses have pooled resources into one location.

Barry Diller, IAC, and his wife, Diane Von Furstenburg, a well-known fashion designer, have donated $10 million to the Friends of the High Line, which is a non-profit group that manages the project.