The White House said it supported the effort, and a restaurant trade group in the city said the rules could stave off new shut down orders.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the tough restrictions were necessary to encourage New Yorkers to get vaccinated and curtail a third wave of coronavirus cases.
Seasonal fare in a TriBeCa townhouse, Hart’s reopens and more restaurant news.
At Cadence, the chef Shenarri Freeman remakes dishes from her Black Southern heritage without animal products.
The first batches of free tickets to the “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert” are being released online this week. They can be gotten, with patience.
Cornbread, black-eyed peas and other classics are made without animal products at Cadence in the East Village.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
A recent visit to the site of the first atomic bomb explosion offered desert vistas, (mildly) radioactive pebbles and troubling reflections.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wanted to focus on increasing vaccination rates, and worried requiring face coverings would remove an incentive.
With fresh material from bin Laden’s hide-out, Peter Bergen, in “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden,” gives us a three-dimensional portrait.
Two memoirs, Anna Qu’s “Made in China” and Ly Tran’s “House of Sticks,” recount memories of abuse and family loyalty.
Monica Muzzo Romero, as of late an arepa restaurateur, has opened a new venture, a deli called Romero.
Louisiana and San Francisco brought back indoor mask requirements, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wanted New Yorkers to focus on vaccinations.
He was peddling his black-and-white photos of New York City’s majesty for $5 each in the 1980s — until a famous photographer came upon them in “astonishment.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio “strongly” encouraged vaccinated New Yorkers to wear masks indoors again, especially when others around them could be unvaccinated.
The mayor said vaccinated New Yorkers needed to mask up inside because of C.D.C. guidance involving areas of high transmission, but he did not require masks.
As workers return to the financial district, longstanding dress codes have been relaxed. Right now, almost anything goes. Even jeans.
Cleanup crews are clearing encampments, but advocates say the sweeps just move people from one place to another and fail to address the housing crisis.
The approach to persuading people to go to shelters — used heavily since the pandemic started — is ineffective, critics say.
After a year in New Jersey, a fashion designer who moonlights as a magician discovered to her surprise that she could afford to move back to the city.
Readers discuss the pros and cons of the dining sheds. Also: Masking up in the subway; the police and the juvenile brain.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
A nice walk interrupted, a front seat solo and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
New Yorkers lined up in the Bronx and Brooklyn to get vaccinated on the first day of cash was offered to get vaccinated at city-run sites.
Children under 12, who cannot be vaccinated, can show a negative test to attend. But the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall plan to bar them for now.
The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater will use the funds, along with $7 million from the city over the last eight years, for an expanded South Bronx space.
“Masks can be helpful,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “but they don’t change the basic reality. Vaccination does.”
Anderson Cooper is selling his mother’s perpetually reimagined two-bedroom, where she lived for nearly 25 years, for $1.125 million.
Housing prices in New York are notoriously high, but if you look carefully, especially with an open mind on location, you can find something affordable.
The federal moratorium is over on Saturday, but the state's ban lasts until the end of August. There is little hope they will be extended.
People with compromised immune systems and the unvaccinated make up a high percentage of patients who end up in the hospital.
A teenager killed himself Thursday afternoon at the tourist attraction, located in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards.
As the city rouses from Covid restrictions, explore the city’s fiscal, cultural and political future with the mayoral nominee Eric Adams and others.
The 28,000-square-foot, four-story Great Jones Distilling Company will open in August with a cocktail bar, a tasting room and more.
This week’s properties are in Cobble Hill, Flatiron and Jackson Heights.
This week’s properties are in Cobble Hill, Flatiron and Jackson Heights.
A mandate for state employees and a $100 reward in New York City for getting a first shot are aimed at holdouts.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
After putting off a purchase to invest in her business, a longtime renter saw an opportunity to buy a place in Brooklyn with the amenities she had always wanted. Here’s what she found.
Caleb Ganzer, a former Food & Wine magazine sommelier of the year and a partner in a well-regarded Manhattan wine bar, is now facing arson charges.
Representative Nydia Velázquez reminded Eric Adams to treat everyone with respect, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoed her comments.
Giving the franchise to noncitizens wouldn't just be fair, it would improve America.
Daniel Christmann posted images that showed him inside the Capitol, prosecutors said. Asked whether he’d entered the building, he replied: “How could I not?”
The more than 600 works he gave to the Met enriched the museum’s collection enormously.
Two officers engaged in “shocking professional and sexual misconduct” with a 15-year-old, a disciplinary trial judge wrote, but they have not been criminally charged.
The artist Sho Shibuya, who has been painting a visual diary on the front page of the Times during lockdown, explains five pieces.
Lauren Salzman, who detailed the group’s inner workings during four days of testimony at Keith Raniere’s trial, was sentenced to probation.
The city is grappling with a new surge in cases and questions. The only shared emotion is uncertainty.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said those who got vaccinated at a city-run site starting Friday would receive $100, as officials weighed whether to bring back a mask mandate.
“We didn’t even have a heads-up that this was coming out,” one labor leader said. Others said members were worried about side effects.
So far, there have been very few cases in New York City’s summer school session, but some parents want a remote option for the fall.
Even as concerts return to indoor venues, there’s still something spectacular about a show out in the warm summer air.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced that next month there will be a concert in Central Park to celebrate the city’s recovery from the coronavirus, with performances from LL Cool J, Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.
Municipal union leaders bristled at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement that workers must get vaccinated or tested weekly, while city workers had mixed reactions.
Will turbulent times end at the Museum of Arts and Design, where a rapid turnover of executives and visions has thrown the institution into disarray?
The festival, which runs from Aug. 11 to Sept. 5, features a flurry of music, dance, and comedy performances from both established and emerging artists.
Prosecutors did not announce who purchased the album, or for how much, but a lawyer for Mr. Shkreli said the sale price appeared to be at least $2.2 million.
Changes for Blue Hill in Greenwich Village and By Chloe, a Greek restaurant goes global, and more dining news.
LL Cool J, Elvis Costello, Andrea Bocelli, Carlos Santana and the New York Philharmonic will join Bruce Springsteen in performances Aug. 21 on the Great Lawn.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
For the first time, a federal agency — the Department of Veterans Affairs — is requiring workers to receive Covid inoculations. Is this a sign of what is to come?
Post-pandemic, some renters know the neighborhoods where they want to live, and are willing to pay hundreds of dollars extra to get them.
The eviction moratorium is set to come to an end in New York City, setting off alarms about the fate of tenants who owe months of unpaid rent and could face homelessness.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new requirement that will apply to roughly 340,000 employees, including teachers and police officers.
It turns out the hobby is a great pandemic coping technique. But too many honeybees in the city could also pose an environmental threat.
California and New York City announced the mandates for their employees, while the Department of Veterans Affairs said frontline health care workers must get vaccinated or face possible termination.
Many homeless people who have been living in hotels during the pandemic were frustrated and confused as they were loaded onto buses and taken to crowded group shelters.
For decades he memorized virtually verbatim the speeches and discourses of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson and meticulously compiled them into about 150 volumes.
Las rápidas y letales inundaciones recientes en China anegaron una red que ni siquiera tenía una década de antigüedad, y pusieron de manifiesto los riesgos a los que se enfrentan las ciudades en todo el mundo.
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday also became the first federal agency to mandate that some of its employees get inoculated.
Some prominent Democrats think their party’s nominee for mayor of New York offers a template for how to address issues of public safety.
Housing groups say technical glitches have hobbled the website, and tenants have encountered errors that wiped away entire applications.
A driver veered into the opposite lane and struck a car head-on in one of at least three fatal crashes in and around the city on Saturday.
The program, designed to prevent mass evictions, has gotten off to a slow start, advocates said. And the end of the state’s eviction moratorium looms.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
On a baseball pilgrimage in Brooklyn, how the Bronx inspired and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
A longhaired photographer who lured women by offering to take their picture, Mr. Alcala, 77, had been convicted of five murders in Orange County, Calif., and two in New York, all in the 1970s.
Elected leaders and voters in New York remain split over the ranked-choice system, but officials in Washington and elsewhere like the results.
The debate over mandates is intensifying as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus surges in many parts of the United States.
“Merry Wives,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, had already pushed back its opening night by nearly two weeks after an injury to its leading man.
“My team has been preparing for this day for months, so I’m very excited,” said Michael McSweeney, the city clerk.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said the city might broaden the number of city workers required to get vaccinated or tested weekly.
There are two competing bills in New York: One would punish pimps and customers, while the other would decriminalize the entire trade.
Tired of sky high prices and losing out in bidding wars, some buyers are giving up and putting their house hunt on hold.
In this seller’s market, some sellers are exercising their power with unusual demands and stripping their homes of fixtures and appliances as they leave.
Dozens of cases at an upstate site come as the highly infectious Delta variant has caused concerns about a wave at schools in the fall.
From osprey nests to toxic cleanups, John Lipscomb monitors it all from aboard his 36-foot wooden boat.
The New Yorkers who kept the city moving were often overlooked. Portraits put their faces in the center of the frame.
Staten Island’s recent uptick in coronavirus cases foretold a larger increase across New York City.
Three neighborhoods offer art, great food (and drinks), river breezes and lush green space — not to mention amazing views. And, for now, there’s still plenty of elbow room.
Swift, deadly flooding in China this week inundated a network that wasn’t even a decade old, highlighting the risks faced by cities globally.
A New York police sergeant attacked two handcuffed suspects while making arrests, the authorities said.
Grant Williams, whose conviction was overturned on Thursday, told people in prison that they would one day see that he was innocent. “And today’s that day,” he said.
During the city’s lockdown, porch concerts in Ditmas Park began as a way to unite artists. These events, along with new series and festivals, have transformed this quiet area into an arts hub.
We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake our streets.
The concerts, which are to run between Aug. 16 to Aug. 21, are being organized to celebrate the city’s reopening and promote tourism.
The Drilling Company returns to live theater with this slapdash tragicomedy about two cousins who fall for the same woman.
This documentary is a portrait of downtown New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s that revels in nostalgia.
The Americans With Disabilities Act was passed 31 years ago. According to this vocational rehabilitation counselor, we need it now as much as ever.
A man from France dropped to the city pavement, one of more than 3,000 emergencies on this day alone. A young police officer rushed to help.
This week’s homes are in Chelsea, Ridgewood and Greenwood.
This week’s homes are in Chelsea, Ridgewood and Greenwood.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
The decision not to seek the death penalty in federal cases around the country has raised defense lawyers’ hopes that the administration may end the practice.
His key aides include three longtime advisers, his campaign manager and a Brooklyn power broker.
The Delta variant has driven up coronavirus case counts, and some experts worry that the vaccination effort is moving too slowly.
Desperate to escape an apartment beset by noisy neighbors, one family went on the hunt for an affordable three-bedroom house near a convenient subway line. Here’s what they found.
Bras in the parks, skivvies on Fifth Avenue: Is this the logical endpoint of increasingly blurred distinctions between public and private?
On Wednesday, the city announced that all public hospital employees must be vaccinated or face weekly coronavirus testing.
Her work on behalf of garment workers helped prod organized labor to rethink its approach to an increasingly immigrant-based work force.
A haze of wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada stretched across North America this week, elevating air quality health risks.
Transit officials hold off on an increase for the subway, buses and commuter rail lines to help riders hurt financially by the pandemic.
As a veteran travel writer is reminded on a short jaunt from his home in France, you don’t need to go far to get away. “Small travel,” he finds, has its own rewards.
When it’s too hot to do anything else in New York City, that means it’s time to go to the beach.
The big-box department store received an unexpected volume of tributes after it abruptly closed in July.
The city’s 2.5 million service workers were at the center of the pandemic as it ravaged New York. Some kept the city running, often at risk to their own lives. Others found themselves unemployed indefinitely in one of the most expensive cities in ...
Cuando la pandemia asolaba la ciudad, los 2,5 millones de trabajadores del sector servicios estuvieron presentes. Mantuvieron todo en marcha, a menudo arriesgando la vida. Otros quedaron desempleados en una de las ciudades más caras del país.
For progressives, he's a nightmare. For the rest of big-city America, he’s a godsend.
The new city policy takes aim at improving vaccination rates at public hospitals. Around 60 percent of workers in the city’s public hospital system are vaccinated.
The transit agency cited the financial hardship of many of its customers as it tries to bring back subway, bus and commuter rail ridership.
A new project from a Tuscan butcher, a new location for Gabriel’s Bar & Restaurant, and more restaurant news.
A hazy sky across parts of the East Coast had its origins in the blazes a continent away.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
For thousands of food truck operators and cart vendors in New York, the ability to make meaningful profits depends on large numbers of workers returning to the office.
Residents and preservationists have tried to stop three new towers, but so far, the developers are winning.
There’s Mark’s the lox-and-bagel place, Mark’s the refined coffee shop and Mark’s the Italian restaurant. Our critic tries them all.
The industry has started to recover, but many businesses are still struggling. It is hoped the promotion, through Aug. 22, will help.
Aquavit celebrates herring with a summer festival that had to be skipped last year because of the pandemic.
The city cannot simply wait for ridership to go back up, fixing the problem naturally.
The city’s test positivity rate has recently increased, but it is far from the average of 6 percent hit during the worst period.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said he would not support additional indoor mask requirements as the Delta variant fuels rising coronavirus cases in the city, and doubled down on vaccinations as the best defense.
Little has changed in recent years with how accusations of rape are dealt with in New York City, a review of data found.
After a year in Florida with his parents, he missed New York and he needed a place big enough to launch a vegan cookie business.
While the Me Too movement led to greater awareness about the prevalence of rape, prosecutors in New York City still struggle to prove sexual assault accusations.
The immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist.
A solo show about a marathoner rebuilding her life takes its audience on a 5K through Central Park. Running is optional, our critic insists.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
A mysterious, elegant man, a quick cut and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
The arts — Broadway, nightclubs, museums, concert halls — are coming back to life after the shutdown. Getting it right will be vital to the city’s comeback.
The Tokyo-bound Israeli national baseball team has more supporters in New York than in its home country.
What caused the craters was unclear. But their appearance raised questions about the scope of pre-emptive repairs that are needed.
The lawsuit comes as the city’s new correction chief acknowledged “severe” problems and promised to make changes.
This creative performance experiment presents a roving adventure through space with Aunts Goes Public!
A history of the many ways the island has been used over the years.
After years of study, the city has declared an emergency to bulldoze most of the buildings on the city’s potter’s field, without following the usual environmental review process.
The husband-and-wife comedy team had lived at the Riverside Drive co-op for half a century and raised their children Amy and Ben Stiller there. The asking price is $5 million.
Even with harsh winds and little sunlight 10 stories above Broadway, you can beat the elements if you are persistent — and clever enough.
Chronically underpaid and undervalued, restaurant workers are now in high demand, and the power balance may be shifting for good.
People like the ones who bring food to your door have been more likely than regular employees to confront health and financial challenges.
Eighteen of the buildings on the island face demolition under an emergency order.