Ilya Marritz

Insurance may not cover the costs of dealing with the disease.

The state's attorney general says nearly three-quarters of Airbnb's listings in NYC are illegal. The company says local laws should be changed.

In 2050, a storm comparable to Sandy could cause $90 billion of damage. That's 4.5 times the damage the storm inflicted in 2012—equal to the entire economy of Ecuador.

The controversial short-term rental website Airbnb will soon be legal in its own hometown, San Francisco.

A waiting game to get one's hands on Apple's latest gadgets.

New research on a 19th-century storm suggests Sandy was bad but not exceptional.

Beverly Ann Griffin said her son Bradley Ballard died because he was held in solitary confinement for seven days and denied food and medication.

New York City startups are encouraging users to be net activists.

Tough questions at a beauty contest for casino license applicants.

The rate of water leaks, heat outages and vermin has risen fast in NYC housing projects.

Men who claim they were abused as teenagers are barred from suing for damages.

Gays marched in the 1991 parade, but they weren't invited back. Here's why.

New Jersey teams up with a labor union to help laid-off casino workers.

Boardwalk behemoths are emptying out in Atlantic City in quick succession.

New Yorkers could be the losers in a mega-merger of two communications giants, according to Mayor de Blasio.

Despite the $40 million settlement with the five men wrongfully convicted in the rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989, there's no formula for how we compensate people imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit.

Uber, the service that lets you order a taxi or car service through your phone, is agreeing to limit price spikes during emergencies and natural disasters.

Land banks are public entities created to revive vacant or tax-foreclosed properties. The small city of Newburgh on the Hudson River has been trying to revitalize itself using a land bank.

The federal program, which would pay for catastrophic damage if a U.S. city was attacked again, is up for renewal this year and some have begun to worry that it may be in trouble.

A report from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer shows the office workforce in Manhattan is now less white, less black, and less female, than it was in 1990.

Stringer’s analysis, comparing 1990 and 2012, shows that women workers comprise a slightly smaller percent of the total workforce (48.2 percent ...