Catherine Diaz

Three U.S. Navy ships and two Coast Guard cutters are some of the boats visiting town for the week-long event.

Lunch tables and benches painted by New York City students will populate the city parks this summer.

Nail salon owners and lawmakers say they would like to clean up their industry.

At an annual Social Justice Expo at NYU, students talked about how to solve everything from police community relations to litter on the streets.

The Museum of Arts and Design presents an exhibit dedicated to female artists from the 1950s until today. 

Local leaders call for closure of Project Renewal homeless shelter after its director was murdered.

The new maps mean twice as many New York City properties will be in a flood zone.

Fencing in Bryant Park in Manhattan, Zumba at Poe Park in The Bronx and meditation at the Conference House Park in Staten Island are some of the classes available this spring.  

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams launches a new proposal that will let mothers breastfeed in public.

An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History offers a look at the world of animals and plants with superpowers.

The Standard Hotel, High Line is one of the places around New York City which offers pop-up petting zoos for the holidays. 

The New York Public Library is showing about 80 photos by William Meyers, who captured scenes from under-explored areas of the outer boroughs for 20 years.

After nine years, Muslim groups win their campaign to put Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Aha on school calendar.

The Bronx Zoo says forget diamonds — nothing says eternal love like naming a Madagascar hissing cockroach.