Costumed dancers participate in the annual West Indian Day Parade on September 3rd, 2018, in Brooklyn. The parade is one of the biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture in North America.
A cap on ride-sharing companies in New York includes one important caveat: They're welcome to add as many wheelchair-accessible vehicles as they like.
Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history, is being built during a time when New Yorkers worry about the burdensome cost of housing. Will the megaproject alleviate the city's housing pressure?
A United States district judge dismissed a New York City lawsuit Thursday that would have held oil companies responsible for climate change.
A public design commission has created a guide that instructs developers in how to create more coherent design for housing projects across the 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.
A ballot proposal calls for California to be split into three separate states. But secession movements have a rocky history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.
Visitors to the One World Observatory look out at a snow covered Manhattan on January 8th, 2018, in New York City.
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.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for Congress to work with President Trump to change immigration laws.
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.
Public art works in the elevated park provide insights into the ills of urban displacement in the neighborhood that surrounds it.
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.
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.
Eight people are reported dead, and at least 15 are injured.
The Zero Waste Guidelines are aimed at helping the city reach its goal of sending no garbage to landfills by 2030.
A review of the work of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct chronicles the costs of a tradition resistant to change.
Due to a system error, Uber's ride commission was coming out of gross fare, costing workers extra.
The New York City Council passed a number of measures meant to ease the city's housing crisis. Will they work?