It was a haven for the young, where they could find hot chocolate when they wanted quiet and affordable drinks when they did not. Then it turned into a place of death.
In his inaugural address, Mayor Zohran Mamdani frequently invoked the cuisines of New York as metaphors for the city’s diversity, ambitions and promise.
Al menos 80 personas fueron excarceladas, entre ellas una con vínculos con Estados Unidos. Más de 800 personas siguen detenidas por oponerse al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro, dicen ONG.
El barco, que navegaba hacia Venezuela para recoger petróleo, ha reclamado protección rusa, aunque las autoridades estadounidenses afirman que se trata de un buque apátrida.
Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after a public inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Jana Euler’s delightful absurdity, Lotty Rosenfeld’s portraits of the Pinochet dictatorship and Erich Heckel’s eerie dream world.
Mr. Williams, New York City’s public advocate, teared up as he addressed a portion of his remarks to his younger self, captivating the crowd.
Les pedimos que votaran por las mejores cintas del año, y el resultado fue una mezcla de grandes éxitos de taquilla y joyas del cine independiente.
Plus, tips from our readers on how to stay informed without feeling overwhelmed in 2026.
New York’s new mayor challenged his supporters and his opponents to make the city better, and to hold him to account.
About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.
Catherine Almonte Da Costa was part of a photo shoot on the mayor-elect’s inner circle. The next day she resigned amid an uproar over antisemitic statements she had posted on social media years earlier.
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With her chocolate-brown princess-line coat, New York’s new first lady looked a little funky, a little vintage, a little Tolstoy, entirely proper and unlike anyone else on the stage.
At least 80 people were released, including one with U.S. ties, though more than 800 remain detained in Venezuela for opposing President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, rights groups say.
From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.
The Grammy-winning singer, part of the supergroup boygenius, followed a performance by Mandy Patinkin, who sang “Over the Rainbow.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speaking at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration, said that his election represented New Yorkers’ choosing “prosperity for the many over spoils for the few.”
Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible.
The fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed around 40 people and injured more than 100, officials said. The cause was still unknown.
Financial pressures have fueled a fifth day of demonstrations around Iran, with at least one person killed in the protests so far, according to the authorities.
The tanker, which had been sailing to Venezuela to pick up oil, has claimed Russian protection, although the U.S. authorities say it is a stateless vessel.
This simple and reliable collection of vegetarian staples — beans, pasta, tofu, salads and soups — will help you cook confidently all year long.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will deliver opening remarks and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will administer the oath of office.
A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming.
Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 were injured after a fire broke out at a bar in a Swiss ski resort town during a New Year’s Eve celebration, the police said.
Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair will host an intimate dinner after the festivities following their son’s swearing in ceremony.
Col. Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power more than four years ago, took over 80 percent of the vote, according to a government-controlled agency that he set up.
Ozoni — Japanese mochi soup — is soothing and sustaining, a grounding meal for the first day of the new year.
Patients were taken by helicopter and jet to bigger, specialized hospitals in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne.
Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.
After the federal government threatened to withhold funds for Minnesota’s child-care program, citing fraud concerns, parents and providers warned that the effects could be dire.
New York City’s new mayor was officially sworn in just after midnight on Thursday. A second public event will take place this afternoon.
Zohran Mamdani has stocked his administration with seasoned officials, in part to allay concerns about his inexperience and left-wing stances.
Known for its gourmet food, luxury stores, and for hosting major sporting events, the high-end resort was acquired by Vail Resorts in 2024.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates burst into the open this week with an unusually direct confrontation that has global implications.
Local residents were evacuated after a fire broke out at the Vondelkerk shortly after midnight. The cause of the blaze has not yet been confirmed.
Readers challenge a Republican politician’s views on prejudice and intolerance in the conservative movement. Also: The harm caused by organ transplant tourism.
At a moment when Americans are distrusting and fearful, we examine the psychology of hope.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
There was a lot to tie up after five seasons and nearly 10 years, and the show gave itself another two hours to do it. Here are the major events.
Convierte tu caminata en un mejor entrenamiento, gana fuerza sin pesas y descubre recomendaciones de ejercicio para el año que viene.
A couple moved up from Asheville, N.C., to be closer to their children and grandchild. On the checklist: a newer building and fun things to do.
Los analistas del sector prevén un año de sabores más tranquilos: pequeñas oleadas de placer, restaurantes menos estridentes y alimentos sanos dignos de la abuela.
Ticket sales in North America totaled $8.9 billion for the year, up 2 percent from 2024. But the box office remains far below prepandemic levels.
Los expertos están aprendiendo cómo sabe el cerebro lo que ocurre en todo el cuerpo, y cómo ese proceso puede fallar en algunos trastornos psiquiátricos.
The floods that struck last week just before the first anniversary of the January wildfires show how extreme weather is defining life in the L.A. region.
En lugar de intentar resistir las tentaciones, muchas personas de éxito organizan sus vidas para minimizar, en primer lugar, la necesidad de fuerza de voluntad.
The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation that will ultimately ban the catch and biomedical use of the crabs.
The new year will pose numerous problems that won’t be so easily overcome.
This month’s grid game show themed grid was constructed by Rena Cohen.
This week’s properties are on the Upper West Side, in Carnegie Hill and Cobble Hill.
A snowy playground for the conspicuously wealthy and a co-host of the 2026 Winter Olympics, this tiny Dolomite town is ready for its close-up.
This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Great Neck and a three-bedroom in Briarcliff Manor.
Welcome to a new year. It promises Ian McKellen, fresh jazz, free exhibitions, restored films and comedy with latkes.
A country resort near Paris refused to cover $800 worth of medical and cleaning bills for a couple who woke up covered in bites. They’d like their stay comped, too.
After the holidays, we’re reaching for dishes that feel comforting, easy and restorative.
How did we get here? I don’t want to know.
The secret ingredient in her music was silence.
Daisy Ridley plays a woman who hopes her husband will spring back to life after a tragedy annihilates the population of Tasmania.
This Korean Canadian soap opera is a moderately charming, if blandly earnest, drama about the dissonance and frictions between immigrant parents and their children
The actor stars along side Kate Mara in a psychological thriller that goes deep into the Black Arts archives.
Christopher Nolan goes (even more) epic, Lisa Kudrow makes another “Comeback” and Marcel Duchamp gets an overdue retrospective.
We asked the experts for their forecast on what will be shaping nuptials next year. Here’s what they said.
Hope is a virtue to be practiced, not an aspiration to be managed.
“Fingers crossed she isn’t racist — it was a different time,” says the author of “My Sister, the Serial Killer” and the recent “Cursed Daughters.”
Some tech leaders are concerned that the artificial intelligence race will exhaust available land and energy. The solution might lie in orbit.
After nearly a decade, a second season to the popular spy show is out this month. The showrunners explain how they created a sequel without a novel to draw from this time.
Boredom, or an approximation of it, is an online trend for young people trying to sharpen their attention spans.
Testosterone neither ensures dominance nor acts as a straightforward trigger for aggression.
The rising costs of labor and equipment are trickling down to homeowners who need to call “timber!”
After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an operation on the edge of what’s possible.
Heirs of families that suffered in the Holocaust have gotten back precious items: not treasured art, but the keepsakes of dead relatives.
Starting today, landlords must provide tenants with working refrigerators.
After a year of Russian advances, the goal for 2026 is simply to survive, said one officer in eastern Ukraine. “It’s hard to make any plans,” he said.
Cómo la congresista por Georgia pasó de ser la mayor aliada del presidente a ser su más notoria crítica republicana.
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As commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation, Michael Flynn will seek to implement one of the new mayor’s central campaign planks.
Los ‘teléfonos tontos’ como símbolos de estatus, una guerra contra el contenido de baja calidad creado por IA y las apuestas por ‘The Real Housewives’ deberían hacer que el próximo año sea interesante.
La publicación de una serie de correos electrónicos suscitó dudas sobre si el departamento había engañado a un juez al decirle que los fiscales locales habían actuado solos al acusar a Abrego Garcia.
Ukraine’s president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.
The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.
Quotation of the Day for Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Beijing is using a ban on the humble mollusk to punish Japan over its apparent willingness to defend Taiwan.
Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.
For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.”
Zohran Mamdani officially took office as mayor after the New Year’s Eve ball drop, in a private ceremony held at a shuttered relic of the city’s subway.
Topher Booth makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
The assessment rebutted a claim that the Russian leader made to President Trump in a phone call this week.
Syracuse, N.Y., has received nearly twice its usual monthly amount of snow in December.
The listing could make it more challenging for U.S. forces to board the ship, which an arm of the Kremlin’s maritime authority says is now flying the Russian flag.
The U.S. military attacked a convoy of three boats in the eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against people suspected of drug trafficking.
The ruling is a win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has vigorously opposed President Trump’s moves to control California’s National Guard since the summer.
The attacker likely had links to the Islamic State and was possibly targeting a Christian church in the center of Aleppo, according to a government spokesman.
The former special counsel accused President Trump of “exploiting” violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an interview released by House Republicans.
The New Year’s Eve celebration drew spectators from around the world, despite cold and blustery weather.
Mayor Eric Adams had one public appearance on his schedule, but that didn’t stop him from naming a third charter commission in the last hours of his administration.
Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear on our pages. This year, tidbits about plastic recycling, whale sharks and crab Rangoon enlightened and entertained us.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, announced several key appointments who could help implement central promises of his agenda, including universal child care.