Outside of New York City, it can be a bit challenging to portray a typical privileged family living in Park Slope.

Progressive yet somehow pretentious. Stylish but inexplicably irritating?

But no longer will you need to stumble in your descriptions! Just point to "Park Slope Family...

"I'm a man of few characters, so I'm going to keep this very, very brief," Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey told a crowd packed into Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge last month, according to The Village Voice. "We need more strong women leaders in this country. We need more revolutionaries....

While the grid system may be Manhattan's defining structural feature, it's the stories of its inhabitants that truly hold the island together.

In 2009, cartographer and writer Becky Cooper embarked on a journey across the length of Manhattan, handing out blank, hand-printed maps of Manhattan to random...

Organizers revealed the final design of the upcoming New York City AIDS memorial Wednesday, and officially announced a campaign to raise funds for the project's Greenwich Village construction.

Final renderings of the memorial, from Brooklyn-based architecture studio a+i, show a steel canopy reaching into the...

The stark reality of New York City's homeless is too often forgotten. Some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers risk becoming merely a statistic -- one of the 3,000 people sleeping on the street each night, or one of the record high 50,000 people crowding into...

A new report reveals the number of people living in homeless shelters has surpassed 50,000 people a night-- a record high for the city and a 19 percent jump from last year.

And although the rise is a reflection of a broader national trend, the...

Grand Central celebrates its 100th birthday Friday. We talked to Sam Roberts, author of the new book "Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America," about why the city landmark looms so large in in the country's culture and history.

Roberts, who is also the...

The Bronx closed out 2012 with some good news on the crime front, as the borough saw a 23 percent decline in its murder rate over the course of the past year with 112 murders, down from 148 in 2011.

The encouraging numbers parallelled an...

Six Nuyorican photographers are hoping to shed light on the rich community of the South Bronx, without over-sentimentalizing the neighborhood's often troubled history.

Beginning this weekend, their work will be showcased at the Bronx Documentary Center in an exhibition called "Seis del Sur: Dispatches from Home by...

In a blow to the NYPD's controversial use of stop-and-frisks, a federal judge has ordered an "immediate cease" to some police stops conducted under "Operation Clean Halls" outside apartment buildings in the Bronx.

"Clean Halls" allows police to stop, question and search residents in and around New York City apartment...

Superstorm Sandy's damage has inspired many public figures, including Lady Gaga and Rihanna, to pitch in and help victims in New York and New Jersey.

On Saturday, two badly hit neighborhoods in New York City received a visit from another big name, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd...

Public health advocates may have scored a victory when New York called for a review of the effects of hydraulic fracturing, further delaying any potential lift on the state's current drilling moratorium. But activists know the fight is still far from over.

During a benefit screening of...

As announced last week, a series of pro-Muslim advertising campaigns urging religious tolerance are expected to be unveiled in New York City's subway system on Monday.

The ads were produced by two religious groups: the Rabbis for Human Rights North America, and the Sojourners, led by a prominent...

A group of courageous dogs and pet owners gathered in Union Square Tuesday to march alongside their pitched tents, with posters and megaphones in hand.

While the scene may have looked like a flashback to the heyday of Occupy Wall Street, closer inspection revealed the spectacle was actually "Doggupy"...

Mayor Bloomberg may not be too fussed over the city's startling income gap, but most ordinary New Yorkers have taken notice with small sacrifices to combat these hard times.

But one woman appears to be stretching her dollar a bit too far. A new series on TLC,...

With the unveiling of artist Tatzu Nishi's latest installation on Wednesday, New York City's iconic Christopher Columbus statue could be seen in considerably more chic surroundings.

Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Nishi's "Discovering Columbus" places an 810-square foot, fully-furnished living room in the sky,...

Tavi Gevinson and her fashionable cohort of teenage fans celebrated the one-year anniversary of Rookie Magazine, as well as the book release of "Rookie YearBook One," with a school dance-themed party at the Ace Hotel on Wednesday.

The glitter-packed fete mirrored much of Rookie's hallmark components...

Tavi Gevinson and her fashionable cohort of teenage fans celebrated the one-year anniversary of Rookie Magazine, as well as the book release of "Rookie YearBook One," with a school dance-themed party at the Ace Hotel on Wednesday.

The glitter-packed fete mirrored much of Rookie's hallmark components...

Last Thursday, over 1.1 million students in the New York City public school system said goodbye to summer and poured into classrooms for the first day of the 2012-2013 academic year.

And for the second year in a row, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott welcomed students back. Walcott has hailed...

City records show the number of homeless children living in New York City shelters rose to a staggering 19,000 last week, The Daily News reports.

Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless said, "Not since the grim days of the Great Depression has New York City...