New York City

In New York City, Haitian community leaders are attempting to change the script when it comes to the church's influence on social justice issues.

• By Vania Andre

A ballot proposal calls for California to be split into three separate states. But secession movements have a rocky history.

• By Rebecca Worby

In his new book Don Mitchell, an emeritus professor of geography at Syracuse University, uses a unique lens to chronicle New York City through the centuries: its protests.

• By Mimi Kirk

Firefighters gather up an American Flag after the funeral for New York City firefighter Lieutenant Michael Davidson at St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 27th, 2018, in New York City, New York.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Ending up on a gang database if you're brown or black is easy—you only have to be suspected of association. Getting off a gang database? That's much harder.

• By Emmanuel Felton

In New York City, Airbnb has raised rents, removed housing from the rental market, and fueled gentrification—and its effects are being felt elsewhere too.

• By Alastair Boone

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Visitors to the One World Observatory look out at a snow covered Manhattan on January 8th, 2018, in New York City.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A Polar Bear Club swimmer carries an American flag as the group makes its annual icy plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, 2018, on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for Congress to work with President Trump to change immigration laws.

• By Francie Diep

Lee's role in gentrification is complicated, despite his vociferous criticism of the phenomenon, because in some ways he's responsible for the Brooklyn of today.

• By Brentin Mock

Public art works in the elevated park provide insights into the ills of urban displacement in the neighborhood that surrounds it.

• By Michael Friedrich

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Labor activists join DNAinfo and Gothamist employees in rallying in support of the journalists who lost their jobs after they voted to form a union at the local news websites on November 6th, 2017, in New York City.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Eight people are reported dead, and at least 15 are injured.

• By Emily Moon

The Zero Waste Guidelines are aimed at helping the city reach its goal of sending no garbage to landfills by 2030.

• By Jessica Leigh Hester

A review of the work of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct chronicles the costs of a tradition resistant to change.

• By Joe Sexton

Due to a system error, Uber's ride commission was coming out of gross fare, costing workers extra.

• By Nick Hagar

The New York City Council passed a number of measures meant to ease the city's housing crisis. Will they work?

• By Dwyer Gunn

Yes, according to a new study.

• By Nathan Collins

Major cities are taking a big-picture look at traffic deaths—and it's working.

• By Allison Shapiro

New York's LowLine park has the power to transform the Lower East Side neighborhood. Is that a good thing?

• By Sarah Shearman

A traffic model incorporating subway and street traffic suggests faster trains aren't always good for congestion.

• By Nathan Collins

Is New York—and the rest of America—failing the the Fair Labor Standards Act?

• By Tyler S. Bugg