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The mayor says by summer's end, the city will start reconstruction on hundreds of homes that were destroyed during Sandy.

A program popular with Staten Islanders and environmentalists reaches the end of the road.

Homeowners aren't the only ones waiting for the city to hand out federal aid.

An environmental group says FEMA's flood maps underestimated the extent of the storm's impact, affecting more than 300,000 New Yorkers.

Under Mayor de Blasio's new health commissioner, soda is still OUT. So what else is new? Listening to people, instead of dictating.

Homeowners are feeling frustrated with delays in the Buy it Back program, 10 months after it began accepting applications and 17 months after Sandy hit.

The private beach community on Rockaway Peninsula has found a way to avoid opening up its beaches to the public.

The agency's high on-time performance rating helped make Westchester attractive, but it became the railroad's Achilles' heel.

It's a relief to some, but delivery workers say old-fashioned pedal power isn't enough.

Secretary Donovan says problems with Build it Back have to do with the way the city designed the program, not regulations.

More than a year after Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of New York City, not a single home here has been rebuilt or repaired with housing aid provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Sandy federal aid bill.

About 16 months after the storm, federal HUD aid has failed to rebuild even one house in New York City. De Blasio promises (again) a full review of the Build it Back program.

A rookie mayor takes office, and a few days later, crazy winter weather hits and keeps on hitting in what ends up being a test of leadership. Sound familiar? It happened to Ed Koch, and it's happening now.

Sheepshead Bay residents affected by Sandy may be part of a plan from the Pratt Center Design 

Jersey City — the state’s second largest city — was awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars less than Newark and Elizabeth, cities of comparable size and storm damage.

Legislation a victory for many residents along the New York and New Jersey coasts, but detractors say it will make the federal flood insurance program even less solvent.

A bill in the U.S. Senate to delay rate hikes for homeowners in flood-prone areas could be voted on as early as Wednesday.

As two federal inquiries got underway into alleged retaliation by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his top aides, a state appellate court heard arguments Tuesday in a case involving yet another instance of supposed political payback.

Bennett Barlyn was a prosecutor in Hunterdon County in 2010 when he secured ...

What was it like to be the folk legend's friend and neighbor for 20 years? WNYC's Karen Frillmann remembers.

Public housing officials are planning to raise many of the system's boilers high enough so that another storm like Sandy would not knock them out again.