Cindy Rodriguez

The fate of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is one step closer to being resolved.

The New York City Housing Authority says it doesn't have enough staff to handle the millions of calls that come in to a centralized call center each year. The cash-strapped authority says between 2004 and 2009 it shed more than 1,500 jobs. At the same time, certain types of work orders have increased dramatically. The result? Tenants waiting years for repairs.

New York City wants to know whether homeless prevention programs are serving the right people, so it's conducting a study that has some elected officials upset.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has impaneled a special grand jury to hear evidence in the case of the sickly, malnourished 4-year-old girl found dead inside her Brooklyn apartment in October.

Members of the City Council and abortion rights proponents are accusing so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" of providing false information to women in an effort to steer them away from abortions and contraception.

In a rare move, The Brooklyn District Attorney's office says it will investigate the city's child welfare agency and its role in the death of 4-year-old Marchella Pierce in early September.

A report by the Administration for Children's Services reveals that caseworkers charged with monitoring a 4-year-old Brooklyn girl failed to visit her family often enough and missed several signs that something was wrong in the troubled home.

The auction of the massive middle-income housing complex was supposed to happen Monday morning in federal court. But shortly before the auction was set to begin, an attorney for CW ...

In 2006, the sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village was touted as the most expensive real estate deal in history. Four years later, the massive rental complex is in forecl...

Homeless advocates are pressuring the City Council to hold a hearing on a bill that would require a census of vacant buildings. Supporters of the measure say its a way to pressure the city into converting empty buildings into affordable housing. 

More New Yorkers are living in poverty. According to figures released today by the US Census, the poverty rate in New York state increased from 2008 to 2009. The poverty rate in New York City also appears to have inched upwards. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez has been pouring over the latest numbers and explains what they mean.

Two child protective workers have been suspended without pay for failing to follow proper procedures in the case of Marchella Pierce, a sick and severely malnourished 4-year-old found dead on September 2. 

A new citywide program is enlisting pro bono architects and engineers to survey dilapidated buildings in foreclosure. The idea is to paint a more realistic picture of what the properties are actually worth.

City building inspectors have a new tack when it comes to cracking down on dubious dwellings. Inspectors are now going undercover, posing as potential renters, responding to apartment postings on the website Craigslist, as a way of entering apartments that may be unsafe or illegal.

A state Supreme Court judge has cleared the way for senior lenders of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to proceed with a foreclosure auction, marking an end to the first round of a legal fight over the massive complex on Manhattan's East Side.

More than seven years ago, New York became a national leader in efforts to curb indoor smoking. Now, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and members of the City Council want to go even further ...

Investors fighting to take control of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are trying to win over tenants by offering them substantial power in the pending real estate deal.

Many family members have established rituals that help them make it through the day. 

Budget cuts that created pressure to close or shift oversight of child welfare cases may have led to last week's death of a 4-year-old, malnourished Brooklyn girl. That's the concern of New York's Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who on Friday announced a probe of the death of Marchella Pierce.

As the city gets ready for the annual memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, regular New Yorkers are also preparing their own personal tributes to loved ones and friends they lost on September 11, 2001.