The red carpet featured noncelebrity guests in homemade costumes. “This is a better function, with a better message,” one guest said.
This Molière in the Park production doesn’t have the sharp satirical bite of the original.
The chain, which started with a single shop in Brooklyn in 1924, said it would close all 42 of its locations by the end of July, citing competition from online retailers.
When the bathroom leak in her Bed-Stuy rental became too much to bear, an Alabama native looked around Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and Crown Heights for something she could afford to buy.
This week’s properties are on Central Park West, in Chelsea and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Uno de los escritores más emblemáticos de su generación, fue un prolífico novelista, autor de memorias y guionista que saltó a la fama en la década de 1980.
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
Students at the university staged “Mayday,” a show that satirizes the administration, especially the beleaguered president, Nemat Shafik.
Therapists from the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music have found that teaching homeless children to make beats and write songs is a way to heal trauma.
Venues across the U.S. and beyond are giving Liz Collins, who first found fame as a fashion designer, the art-world recognition that had eluded her.
The dinner parties held by Shtick, a pop-up series celebrating Jewish culture, draw out New York’s influencers, artists, designers and celebrities.
Approximately 200 were arrested after pro-Palestinian Jewish groups rallied near Chuck Schumer’s home, as the Senate prepared to authorize billions of dollars in aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
“Trauma recovery centers” are favored by law-and-order officials and progressive activists alike for one big reason: They work. But to stay open in New York, they need more funding.
Stef Dag, host of “Hot & Single,” goes cafe-hopping with friends, boxes in the park and gets ready for a comedy set at The Stand.
Nicholas Welker admitted posting the death threat, which was meant to silence coverage of the extremist group he led, prosecutors said.
A landowner named Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont started selling plots of his Brooklyn land in the 1820s restricted by eight-foot setbacks still in effect today, rankling modern developers.
In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.
For the actor, compatibility comes down to food. You need to be able to share.
A series of workshops hosted by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their eyes to the nature all around them.
When they lost their beloved crossing guard, the students at Avenues The World School — Spider-Man, Wilder, Miss Seattle and the rest — paid tribute in cocoa and chalk.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office didn’t mean to send opposing lawyers an unredacted file about Louis Scarcella, a former N.Y.P.D. detective whose overturned cases have cost New York millions.
This week, the Brooklyn Museum honored the work of Titus Kaphar at their Artists Ball, and GQ hosted an awards show in the Financial District.
Una escuela chárter de Brooklyn experimenta con una nueva forma de ayudar a las familias al ampliar la jornada escolar. Los alumnos pueden llegar a las 7 a. m. y salir en cualquier momento antes de las 7 p. m. Gratis.
The arrests, which led one of the men to be hospitalized, heightened tensions between officers and outreach workers trained to intervene in street conflicts.
Dana Rachlin, who filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the Police Department, said the string of recent attacks by high-level officials against critics was not surprising.
A tattoo shop in Brooklyn offered original designs of the owl. Flaco admirers who got them said the bird was a symbol of freedom.
Un grupo de conocidos invirtió en un equipo de fútbol de la tercera división de la liga danesa. Esperan ascender, pero siguen perdiendo partidos.
A doctor involved in an infant death at Woodhull Medical Center was later involved in a C-section that led to a mother’s death, according to state investigators and hospital staff.
Some of the defendants are accused of breaking through a wall between an excavated space and the sanctuary, part of the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
A Brooklyn charter school is experimenting with a new way to help families by expanding the school day. Students can arrive at 7 a.m. and leave any time before 7 p.m. For free.
A Brooklyn hospital is trying to evict employees and retirees from staff housing, as it struggles financially, but tenants fear they will now be homeless in an unaffordable city.
Some people splurge on vacations, fancy shoes and motorcycles. A group of dozens of friends, neighbors and co-workers decided to try something better (or maybe worse).
The chancellor said the “school system is more than prepared.” But when it was time to log on, many students could not.
Officials said some services would be transferred from University Hospital at Downstate to nearby facilities, and others, including primary care, could be expanded.
The humble cotton button-down helps power New York City, through its presence in practically every office in town. But few people understand the shirt’s transformation from dirty to clean, which at Kingbridge Cleaners & Tailors will run you $6.
The pandemic upended everything at the Red Hook Lobster Pound. By mid-2022, the co-founder felt she had no choice but to raise the price of her signature item, a lobster roll and fries.
Fallkill Falls has long been officially off limits. That’s changing, but parkgoers may have to wait until winter to see actual water falling.
Small businesses outside Manhattan helped fuel the city’s recovery from the pandemic. Their rents have soared, and people of color are bearing the brunt of the increases.
Big oaks and sweetgums have been moved into a former sugar factory, to make it a more inviting space for prospective tenants and their employees.
For decades, smaller “safety net” hospitals like Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have been losing money and are under pressure to close. But the pandemic has shown just how needed they are.
Representative Lee Zeldin painted a bleak portrait of New York, while Gov. Kathy Hochul stressed her rival’s anti-abortion stance and his support for Donald Trump.
More bars and restaurants are closing their doors at earlier hours, and more New Yorkers are grabbing dinner earlier in the evening. One of our reporters set off to find out why.
“I feel like it’s 50-50,” said the owner of a Brooklyn coffee shop who is finding it hard to rebound from the pandemic.
Anthony Almojera reports to Station 40 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he cooks a family meal for his 12-member crew.
Young violists and sax players in Brooklyn get reacquainted with their instruments, and with one another: “You have to play in harmony.”
Young violists and sax players in Brooklyn get reacquainted with their instruments, and with one another: “You have to play in harmony.”
My fourth grader thinks about every event she’s missed, and I can’t pretend it doesn’t hurt.
As workers return to the office, some companies have relocated to ease the commute.
The subway is at a critical moment as transit officials struggle to bring back riders, to shore up the system’s finances and to address fears over safety.
As the United States marks one million Covid-19 deaths, Times journalists reflect on the one story or moment from the pandemic that will stay with them forever.
From “anti-monuments” to ephemeral sand portraits, four art exhibitions encourage viewers to slow down and take stock of our pandemic losses.