Since 1997, New York City has purchased more than 1,800 properties to protect its drinking water. No longer.The largest single taxpayer in the Catskills is New York City.To protect its drinking water — 90 percent of which comes from Catskills watersheds — the city spent nearly three decades accumulating 156,350 acres of forest and fields.

After federal officials began a sweep of a vast forest in Oregon, most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left. But they didn’t go far.With nowhere else to go, many drove their aging R.V.s to a different forest just a few dozen miles away. Advocates for the homeless

A co-op board has wide latitude to operate in the best interests of the building and the shareholders. But some fees are unreasonable.Q: I bought a co-op apartment in Queens about 35 years ago and I’ve been renting it out. About 15 years ago, the co-op imposed a 10 percent surcharge on the maintenance fees

In This Article According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Q1 GDP growth in 2025 was negative (-0.3%, to be exact). According to the BEA, “The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government

The Irish comedian Graham Norton remembers sifting through Manhattan real estate listings a couple of decades ago and being struck by the photos of a charming carriage house nestled in a tiny gated mews in Murray Hill.The home, at 6 Sniffen Court, which he later learned was being sold by the model Claudia Schiffer, reminded

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