Vintage lumber salvaged from old urban structures, like Coney Island’s boardwalk and a Park Avenue water tower, gets a second life. Read more

Intermediate School 259 in Brooklyn uses the attacks of September 11, 2001, as a theme for part of a mural on the school’s building; teachers and administrators hope the mural … Read more

Colin Beavan, known for his No Impact Man project, is the Green Party candidate for a House seat in Brooklyn. Read more

It has been eight weeks since voters in South Brooklyn cast their ballots for a short-term state senator. On Monday, when the final tally appeared to be in, the election … Read more

Two new books — one about showing affection to boys, and another about the transition from Brooklyn to suburbia — offer vastly different takes on parenthood. Read more

A charter school in Brooklyn is indicative of a larger problem in New York City’s public school system, one of the most segregated in the nation. Read more

Every few blocks throughout Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, New Yorkers will have access to a new alternative for public travel. Read more

City Room blog; surge in the value of copper, iron and other metals fuels a wave of thefts in New York City of iron gates around the bases of trees … Read more