For more than three years now, Fordham University has wanted to tack its name onto the list of colleges and universities expanding in Manhattan. The Jesuit university, led by the Rev. Joseph McShane, generally avoided the spotlight while Columbia University underwent a hard-fought approval battle for its $7 billion West Harlem expansion and New York University began a somewhat contentious ...

"Your heart almost gets ripped out every time these things happen," said City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, calling just past deadline on Tuesday to comment on the hallowed P & G bar's looming departure from its longstanding location at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd Street. "Many patrons of P & G call me all the time," Ms. Brewer ...

In late 2006, the Bloomberg administration announced an initiative to build new housing on the underutilized land (parking lots and such) of select city public housing projects. Vacant, publicly owned land is now in short supply, the city reasoned. So officials began to look to the NYCHA housing projects as a city-owned resource where space was aplenty, given the "tower ...

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer represents the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and says in her district, there's unlikely to be a clear consensus on the mayor's reported intent to change the law on term limits and run for a third term. Speaking of her constituents, Brewer said, "People are going to be really conflicted with the way that ...