New York City Housing Authority

The general manager of the city’s housing agency told a City Council oversight hearing on Monday about ways it is looking to restructure its finances, including shrinking its workforce.

Two new laws are raising the penalty for assaulting New York City Housing Authority workers doing their jobs or a school crossing guard anywhere in the state.

For many residents on the Gowanus low-line, heavy rains mean no water.

For the third day in a row, residents of the Boulevard Houses in East New York had to deal with the fact that a killer may be on the loose in their neighborhood.

In response to Sunday’s stabbing at an East New York public housing development that left a 6-year-old boy dead and a 7-year-old girl in critical condition, Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized his staff for sluggish installations of security cameras at public housing projects.