On June 12, 2025, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) unveiled its updated 2025 Design Guidelines, which is a resource provided for internal and external partners regarding requirements, ...

NYC DOT On June 18, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation announced an expansion on the crackdown on ...

On June 12, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation and Fire Department began distributing certified fire-safe e-bikes and e-batteries to food delivery workers through the city’s E-Bike ...

Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents. Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical ...

Credit: CityLaw New York State in 2021 must redraw the State’s senate, assembly and congressional districts. The process will be different from the process used to draw legislative and congressional ...

Ross Sandler, Director of the Center for New York City Law. Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations ...

Image credit: Jeff Hopkins How small is too small when it comes to trip hazards on New York City sidewalks? New York courts, grappling with this issue for over 125 years, have declined to advance a ...

Image Credit: Darren McGee- Office of Governor Kathy Hochul. By Jeffrey M. Wice and Piper Benedict New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms ...

Trees under the common law were considered natural conditions with the result that possessors of land were not liable for injuries caused trees. Professor William Prosser wrote in the first edition of ...

Image credit: New York City Council. Free representation in housing court for low income tenants will now be available citywide. On April 29, 2021, the City Council passed three bills advancing ...

Illustration: Jeff Hopkins. When municipalities are sued in tort, two of the most powerful bars to recovery are the public duty principle and the governmental function immunity defense. When these two ...

Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mark Chiusano For part two of Cityland’s candidate questionnaire on public space, we asked how the top Democratic mayoral hopefuls would reform the way ...