The construction accident happened just after 3 p.m. on Friday on Ninth Avenue between West 38th Street and 39th Street.

Some say that Times Square is like a five-block metaphor for New York City itself – it's exciting, colorful and always jumping. Others describe this area of midtown Manhattan as artless ...

The New York City Council unanimously ... These eyesores were crowding our sidewalks, stifling our small businesses, and darkening our city; it was time for something to change," said Mayor ...

The New York City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to "shed the sheds," setting time limits to remove scaffolding and sidewalk sheds that have blanketed parts of the city, sometimes for years.

“These revitalized rules will help the New York City Department of Buildings remove unsightly scaffolding and ensure that sidewalks sheds are safer, more secure, and more visually appealing when they ...

Two mini cranes collapsed in Midtown Manhattan onto a sidewalk shed, with no injuries reported. The Department of Buildings ...

Could there be light at the end of the sidewalk shed? The New York ... at a time. Scaffolding now shrouds about 400 miles of sidewalk throughout the five boroughs, according to city data.

Today we’ll look at proposed changes in rules governing a seemingly permanent part of the streetscape in New York City: sidewalk sheds ... Lengthening the time between inspections, to once ...