NEW YORK — An important elevator safety mechanism was turned off when an advertising executive was crushed to death trying to take the lift to h...

Last week's tragic elevator fatality in a Madison Avenue office building is the latest reminder that New York City's building inspection process is broken and in need of repair now -- before another senseless death.

Perhaps tight-budgeted travelers should just stick to Couch Surfing. City inspectors are using a new law to raid, document and shutter illegal hote...

In a case winding its way through courts, a synagogue is claiming a Constitutional right to run a hotel that would otherwise not conform to city codes...

The Metro reported Thursday that everyone's favorite trailer park hipsters have been evicted from their warehouse on Meserole Street in Bushwick, and ...

Produced by HuffPost's Local Citizen Reporting Team Two weeks ago, 24-year-old Connor Donohue fell to his death after a faulty railing gave way on hi...

Celebrity hot spot La Esquina has been shuttered by the city following a report that the building conditions are "imminently perilous to life." La Es...

At least six city building inspectors -- some with ties to a powerful crime family -- were videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some we...

NEW YORK — New York City will track its hundreds of building inspectors with GPS technology to make sure they are actually doing the inspections...