Americans expect their tax dollars to be used wisely, whether it’s investing in basic infrastructure, schools, or public services. However, a single law in New York is inflating the cost of federally ...

For 140 years, New York has been shackled by an outdated law found nowhere else in America: the scaffold law. Enacted in 1885, this statute imposes “absolute liability” on property owners and ...

Click here to see the graphic. One day in 2004, workmen arrived at the corner of West 123rd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem to erect a sidewalk shed, one of those unsightly steel-and-wooden ...

Four Long Island advocacy groups are among nearly 50 organizations statewide who have joined forces to challenge a 140-year-old law that exists only in New York State and holds property owners and ...

A massive array of scaffolding that’s cocooned New York City’s largest high school for more than five years is at long last scheduled to come down next month, according to the city’s School ...

A final round of showers is moving through the New York area in the morning before the rest of the week turns much drier and warmer. Two people were hurt when a tractor-trailer overturned onto an SUV ...

A thing of beauty emerged on my Upper West Side block recently, something New Yorkers are seeing more often these days. The scaffolding overhanging two buildings down the street was dismantled, ...

An ironworker who survived a fatal scaffolding collapse that left one dead at a Chicago construction site is now suing two companies involved with the project. Screengrab from video by WGN. UPDATE: ...