Anything is on the table for a general assignment reporter in New York. Still, a series of brush fires in the city and a big blaze upstate were far from expected.
About two inches were forecast to fall through Saturday. Officials say it won’t be enough to fully replenish the city’s reservoirs.
Mr. Giuliani has not turned over his apartment and other items to two women he defamed. His new counsel, a Staten Island divorce lawyer, held a sidewalk news conference.
Harun Abdul-Malik Yener was charged after an undercover investigation by the F.B.I. into his alleged desire to join extremist groups and carry out violent attacks, according to a criminal complaint.
Christopher Brown sought blessings before he tried to carry out his plan. When he was arrested in Penn Station, he had a gun, a knife and a swastika arm patch.
As the holiday approaches, we want to know how you plan on tackling one of the biggest travel days of the year.
The city’s art and fashion worlds are keeping an eye on President-elect Donald Trump’s economic agenda, especially tariffs and tax cuts.
The New York region is unlikely to ever have as many brush fires as out West. But residents need to be ready for more droughts.
New York City is dealing with its worst housing shortage in decades. The diverging fates of two developments offer a window into the crisis.
Melissa Rodriguez opens Crane Club in the Al Coro space, the Anton’s team take on all-day Italian at Leon’s and more.
When we asked the online celeb Caleb Simpson if he would give us a tour of his house, he said “Yes.” Here’s what we found.
Why it can’t fix our messy politics.
A report from the Central Park Conservancy recommends changes in the park’s roads to protect walkers from fast-moving cyclists.
How did pigeons came to dominate our streets? Where did Katharine Hepburn live? The answers might be more interesting than you think.
A developer wanted to replace parking garages with affordable apartments in Manhattan, but some residents on the Upper West Side resisted. Here’s why the housing won.
Prosecutors have had to acknowledge that a victim frightened those around him. The defense lawyers are expected to paint their client as a protector.
In other testimony, law enforcement witnesses placed the suspect, José Ibarra, at the scene of Ms. Riley’s killing, mainly through cellphone and GPS tracking data.
The warning, which extends beyond the city to include 10 other counties in New York State, was announced as wildfires burned and residents continued to await meaningful rainfall.
The key adviser to Donald J. Trump is accused of cheating people who donated to build a border wall. Mr. Trump pardoned him when he faced similar federal charges in his first term.
Ramon Rivera, 51, attacked the victims in an unprovoked spree that began in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and ended near the United Nations, the police said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is letting the tolling program move forward in January. Her critics have jumped on the chance to object to the reversal.
A record 146,000 students did not have permanent housing, state data shows, as the city dealt with an ongoing housing crisis and an influx of migrants.
At the New York Botanical Garden’s model train show, the city’s famous buildings cluster around the tracks.
A couple who finally live full-time in the city sometimes can’t believe they have their own home in the middle of the craziness.
Slashing the original $15 toll raises questions about whether a smaller revenue stream could delay projects or lead to higher costs for New York’s public transit agency.
Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N.Y.U., used her last interview to reminisce about her brother, Ed, and to publicize the alternatives to prolonging pain and suffering.
Calming a subway panic attack, contemplating a Bronx bullfrog and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
The New York State Department of Labor has opened an inquiry into the global dance group and its treatment of the children and teenagers who stage its shows worldwide.
Alice Mason era la agente inmobiliaria de la élite de Nueva York y una experta en el arte de la anfitrionía. Una fiesta alteraría su legado y tensaría la relación con su hija.
A suit filed in Manhattan federal court Friday accuses law enforcement of intentionally failing to protect him and stymying efforts to identify his killers.
Landlords of rent-stabilized units are generally not able to increase the rent by more than what is allowed. But there are some exceptions.
Stephen Bruno, who wrote a book about his life as a doorman, helps people head to brunch, then gets ready for a day of religious worship and a night of dancing.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to end the sweeping scrutiny of the police that President Biden used to uproot abuse.
The finding in the case of Jazeli Mirabal is the third death of an infant in New York City over the summer to be labeled a homicide this month.
The Biden administration had warned that the United States would consider any Iranian attempt on Mr. Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.
The New York City Council has passed a bill that would require landlords to pay for the rental brokers they hire. Some brokers believe it will hurt tenants in the long run.
The ceramic vessel made by a former fashion designer has become the hit product at a new shop in Downtown Manhattan.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s revised $9 toll plan still faces some hurdles but could be in place by Jan. 5.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to revive congestion pricing in New York has energized her Republican opponents, giving them fodder to fight her re-election in 2026.
Store vacancy rates are still above prepandemic levels, but new food and drink businesses, led by Mexican, Japanese and Caribbean kitchens, have helped fill the void.
New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris. But they woke up stunned to learn how many of their neighbors voted the other way.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is fast-tracking new tolls to enter Midtown and Lower Manhattan. Drivers could be charged beginning in January.
The City Council overwhelmingly passed a measure to shift the burden of broker fees to landlords. Here’s what that means for renters.
Ariel Gonzalez died in the Bronx in August. There have been no arrests in the case, which the medical examiner said on Thursday was a homicide.
The military trainer said that Marines are taught to render a person unconscious in seconds. Mr. Penny held Jordan Neely, a homeless man, for six minutes.
The available data confirms that Donald Trump made inroads among Hispanic, Black and big-city voters. The results mean that, to a great extent, the pre-election polls had it right.
Washington Heights and Inwood were the scene of deadly feuds that began six years ago after a killing. Thursday’s charges were just the latest in a series of gang takedowns.
A food king of Manhattan welcomes the newsletter crowd to a party celebrating the 50th anniversary of his Upper East Side cafe.
The city is overflowing with options for a warm pot and small bites that won’t empty your bank account.
The city will be the first in the U.S. to adopt a fee on driving in certain areas, with the aim of reducing traffic and pollution. For some other cities, that has long been the norm.
The National Museum of Mathematics in New York is expected to open a 34,363-square-foot building in 2026.
The governor is renewing plans to start the tolling program, but at discounted rates. Ms. Hochul said it will generate $15 billion for mass transit.
Van Ritshie, who recorded the announcements on Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains, died this month at age 80.
This week’s properties are in Inwood, the East Village and Jackson Heights.
The death of Yusuf Hawkins in Brooklyn set off months of protests. Joseph Fama, who prosecutors say shot the 16-year-old in a melee, will get a chance to prove his innocence.
The scarcity of apartments makes it easy for landlords to raise rents, but building new developments comes with high costs and regulatory hurdles.
Who says a temporary space needs to look undone?
The blaze in the park, at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the past week.
Emergency responders worked to contain a brush fire in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce the revised program on Thursday with the aim of putting it in place before Donald J. Trump takes office.
Did a fun event involving cute dogs turn into a pump-and-dump scheme?
Train service had been snarled between New Haven, Conn., and Washington because of a fire in the Bronx and fallen wires in Philadelphia.
A report suggests a competition where the prize is a multimillion-dollar city contract.
Jesse Krimes solos in two New York shows, at the Metropolitan Museum and the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Sara Cwynar has amassed a collection of melamine objects that have also appeared in her video work.
Members of the Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant hold a house tour once a year to show off the culture and history of the Black home aesthetic.
The City Council approved a bill on Wednesday that would curb a loathed New York City real estate practice: making renters pay thousands of dollars in broker fees.
After years of controversy and boycotts, the parade’s organizers said it was time to change the exclusionary policy.
In an internal trial, Lt. Jonathan Rivera of the New York Police Department faces charges that he acted rashly when he shot Allan Feliz during an altercation.
The blaze was apparently connected to an Amtrak substation in the Bronx. The operator said it expected normal service to resume at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
Known as the Jennings Creek fire, it started Friday and quickly spread. The rugged terrain has made it more difficult for emergency workers to respond.
The department store is canceling an annual show that has long drawn tourists to its flagship store in New York City.
Eric Gonzalez, who helped Daniel Penny pin Mr. Neely to the floor of a subway car, also said he had lied when he told investigators Mr. Neely had hit him.
The two-story space, adorned with paintings and drawings by Robert De Niro Sr., will serve a larger menu.
Readers offer various strategies, including retreat, engagement, art and grief. Also: The ways to pray; regrowing New York City.
The rules herald the end of the city’s peculiar, decades-old tradition of letting residents place their bulging garbage bags directly on the sidewalk.
Donald J. Trump moved to dismiss his Manhattan criminal case, reflecting his expansive view of presidential power. The judge paused all activity in the case, including Mr. Trump’s sentencing.
Our City Hall bureau chief discusses how Democrats are processing Donald Trump’s win and what it might mean for Mayor Eric Adams’s legal troubles.
A family needed more space but decided not to leave New York City. They bought a fixer-upper in Brooklyn and slowly went to work.
Soaring rents and few options have made it hard for average people to live in the city. Even “affordable” units often cost too much.
Michael Grimm, a Republican who resigned in 2015 after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion, was paralyzed from the chest down during a polo competition in September.
Peter Brown’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild Robot,” which is now a blockbuster movie.
On and around some of New York City’s most iconic buildings, beehives are buzzing.
Unseating Eric Adams as mayor of New York was a hot topic at a political gathering in Puerto Rico, as Democrats reflected on the impact of Donald J. Trump’s win.
Thomas Donlon wants the job of police commissioner permanently, and he’s been acting as though he has it as he navigates friction and uncertainty.
The fire, the latest of several in the region over the weekend, had caused one death and was not contained as of Sunday afternoon, officials said.
The men were receiving orders from a third man, who was working as an Iranian operative and was also involved in a plot to assassinate Donald J. Trump, federal prosecutors said.
Why the era still resonates a century later.
In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.
Alice Mason was New York City’s broker to the elite and a master at the art of hosting. One fete would alter her legacy and strain her relationship with her daughter.
Would Donald J. Trump come to the aid of Mayor Eric Adams of New York, an embattled Democrat indicted on federal corruption charges?
A trip with an unusual passenger, voices from a Brooklyn past and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
New Yorkers encountered an unsettling smell on Saturday, a day after fires broke out in Prospect Park and across the Hudson River.
The organization that he led advocated the separation of church and state, with no exceptions for holidays, currency, symbolism or blessings.
Spencer Liff, who choreographed “Drag: The Musical,” searches for New York’s best Bloody Mary, stops by the theater and tries to find his next great jacket at the flea market.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has vowed to prevent mass deportations, but migrants and immigration lawyers are preparing for them.
The fire drew almost 100 firefighters, the commissioner said. The cause was not immediately determined.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, facing pressure from supporters of the contentious tolling plan, is said to be exploring options for adopting it in some form.
The Manhattan church said it would turn over administration of its boarding school for choristers, one of only a few of its kind remaining, because of financial woes.
A nonprofit group has reached an agreement to buy the shuttered Metro Theater from its owners, but the deal is contingent on raising the money by the end of the year.
Firefighters in the two states have battled hundreds of blazes during an unseasonably dry fall.
Keens, a fixture in midtown Manhattan since 1885, is a shrine to a bygone city.
Michael McCarty and Kim McCarty will celebrate the New York outpost of Michael’s, their Santa Monica restaurant, with a few hundred regulars.
The 100 replicas of the “Wu-Tang Clan District” sign on Staten Island, where the group was formed in 1992, were gone in less than two hours.
In a new museum on Long Island, you can see a simulator that began as an amusement-park ride.
Mohamed Bahi was accused of tampering with witnesses and destroying evidence in the corruption investigation into Mayor Eric Adams and his campaign fund-raising.
Mayor Eric Adams is ending a contentious pilot program that gave 2,600 migrant families debit cards to purchase food.
A federal judge threatened Rudolph W. Giuliani with a contempt charge after a missed deadline to hand over prized possessions, including Yankees swag.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated that he would support ending water fluoridation. Mayor Eric Adams was reticent on the issue, before eventually taking a side.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, owes $148 million from a 2021 defamation case, which he called “a political vendetta.”
Find love in a hopeless place (where the subway lines intersect).
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Jes Fan’s unsettling biomorphic sculptures, Les Levine’s van Gogh and Sara Cwynar’s Mercedes-Benz immersion.
The shooting happened near West 68th Street and Columbus Avenue. Subway riders were told to get on the ground and keep their heads down.
Eduardo Diaz was charged with attempted murder in an incident that prompted subway riders to shelter on floors and caused delays across the system.
The intriguing options range from well-known names like Bill Maher and Tracy Morgan to under-the-radar standups like Chloe Radcliffe and Jay Jurden.
Julian Gargiulo moved to New York and arranged to have his Steinway shipped from Europe. That’s when his troubles began.
This week’s listings are in Midtown East, Washington Heights and Downtown Brooklyn.
With their daughter in college on Long Island, an Atlanta couple looked for a modest second home in Manhattan so they could visit more often. Here’s what they found.
The parents of Jahmeik Modlin, 4, were initially charged with manslaughter. They are accused of locking away food from their children and showing “depraved indifference” for their son’s life.
A hearing has been scheduled for next week for a judge to decide whether Mickey Barreto, who stayed at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, should be held in a hospital for psychiatric care.
The rightward shift in the presidential election results was especially pronounced among Asian voters and Hispanic voters in Queens and the Bronx.
Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House could significantly affect a range of issues in his hometown, including immigration policy and congestion pricing.
Donald J. Trump, the first felon elected president, has a sentencing scheduled for Nov. 26. He has many ways to avoid punishment.
Opponents tried to use Mayor Eric Adams’s federal indictment to argue against the measures, and cast them as a bid to lessen the City Council’s power.
Democrats flipped a House seat in central New York and defended one in the Hudson Valley, and a ballot measure tied to abortion access was approved.
Claremont Hall, climbing 41 stories above the historic Union Theological Seminary campus, was designed to delight the eye without disrupting the neighborhood.
Matt Choi, who ran the course in under three hours, was followed by two cameramen on electric bikes, who were said to have obstructed other runners.
Readers discuss university governance and identity politics. Also: An election absence from school; feeling “despairalyzed”; a Marathon memory; a wedding dress.
The worldwide chain is famed for precision-engineered xiao long bao, but the ones in New York are less than reliable.
At Crazy Pizza, the tableside theatrics start with the dough, new bistros arrive on the Upper East Side and more food news.
If you’re voting today, expect long lines. Don’t forget to turn over your ballot to see the questions on the back.
The reputation of the iconic New York City thoroughfare began with a competition to build lavish mansions that came crashing down with the advent of luxury apartment buildings.
IKEA and Uniqlo join luxury fashion houses in owning, rather than leasing, huge retail spaces on the strip. Developers are cashing in.
Con ceviche, quinua, sushi y más, las caleidoscópicas tradiciones culinarias de este país están ganando popularidad y prestigio en todo el mundo.
It takes dedication, solar panels and lots of vegetables. And it probably means putting dating on hold.
Witnesses from the subway train said they feared Jordan Neely but also described the horror of watching him die in a chokehold.
Little rain has fallen since Hurricane Helene dropped huge amounts across the Southeast.
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is eyeing a potential run for New York City mayor next year, criticized plans to close part of the A train in the Rockaways for months.
Commissioner Thomas Donlon and his acting chief of staff, Tarik Sheppard, had to be separated by another official, said people familiar with the dispute.
The Sydney Marathon has joined the ranks of New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo, receiving a designation reserved for the most elite races in the world.
Two runners with injuries ended the New York City Marathon on their own two feet — and a pair of crutches.
The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, and vulnerable people are going without.
The Pritzker-winning architectural firm is known for its transformation of existing structures like the Park Avenue Armory.
With Patrick Bringley’s “All the Beauty in the World” now in its 10th printing, he’s debuting in two new roles: playwright and actor.
Ceviche, quinoa, sushi — the nation’s kaleidoscopic culinary traditions are earning popularity and prestige around the world.
Amanda Jones, who will attend a gala on Monday at the New York Public Library, lobbied against restrictions on libraries — and faced a backlash.
After an emergency evacuation put them into limbo, tenants of a New York building are still awaiting a court decision that might help them recover their past lives.
The creator and host of “Subway Takes” and “Keep the Meter Running” makes New Yorkers — and the Democratic presidential ticket — explain themselves.
Netta Yerushalmy’s “Movement” at N.Y.U. Skirball comes from a patchwork of sources: TikTok, television, marching band practice and more.