Rosa Chang devoted herself to repurposing nine ugly acres under the Brooklyn Bridge. Amazingly, nobody has said no yet.
Mayor Eric Adams announced that a new scanner would search for guns on the subway. Riders who refuse to be scanned, he said, will not be allowed to enter the system.
New OMNY transit cards for public school students, rolling out in September, will be usable 24 hours a day throughout the calendar year.
Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.
The shooting took place just a half block from Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the New York City mayor, and was related to a child-custody dispute, according to the police.
The health facility’s potential closure had been contentious following the shuttering of other hospitals serving Lower Manhattan.
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
The Beam, at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, allows visitors to recreate the famous photo of construction workers perched high above the city.
The steady parade of couples seeking civil marriage ceremonies in New York City has expanded in recent months to include newly arrived migrants.
Thousands of people piled into Madison Square Garden on Thursday to hear Billy Joel’s catalog of hits in the final show of his long residency at the arena.
New Yorkers will be able to vote on a plan to add 30 days to City Council deliberations on public safety legislation. An earlier plan would have slowed the process further.
Bevelyn Beatty Williams, an anti-abortion activist, physically confronted patients in 2020 as they tried to enter a health clinic in Manhattan, prosecutors said.
The lawsuits are among the first legal efforts aiming to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to move forward with the tolling program as planned.
A perfect Vietnamese coffee is reason enough to celebrate. But a few sweet treats can’t hurt.
A federal lawsuit accuses New York City of defying state and city regulations meant to protect vulnerable homeowners from losing water service.
Prosecutors said the teacher, who worked for Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, lured students from four different schools to share explicit images with him via social media.
Two longtime Californians searched for a comfortable one-bedroom, with an eye on Central Park and Lincoln Center.
The Ford Crown Victoria, once a ubiquitous sight on the streets of New York, is being pushed out for newer, wheelchair-accessible models.
This week’s properties are on the Upper West Side, the Lower East Side and in Astoria.
Some younger people have become obsessed with learning old-fashioned hand crafts like leather-making, millinery and lacework.
A set of weapon-screening devices will be deployed at various stations over the course of a month.
Travelers were evacuated from Concourse C of Terminal 8 at Kennedy International Airport after an escalator caught fire.
New Yorkers have been baffled by fake filming notices appearing around the city. Who’s behind them?
New York’s Fulton Fish Market, which supplies the city with nearly half its seafood, is run by third-, fourth-, even sixth-generation fishmongers.
Tal and Oren Alexander, who had lifestyles as flashy as their real estate deals, are now accused of a string of sexual assaults.
Readers object to Republican actions against migrants. Also: “Unpromising” students; romance fiction; sleep and longevity; scaffolding in New York.
Across New York City, people have written their names in places that only a select few ever get to see.
The Met Cloisters isn’t just about medieval art. There’s also a garden that’s like a living history book — with ideas for today’s gardeners.
A police procedural drama staged a tent encampment for a film shoot at Queens College. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators felt it trivialized their movement.
New York City voters will most likely be confronted in November with a referendum that may dilute the City Council’s power on public safety issues, thanks to a panel formed by the mayor.
Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.
Crawfish cakes with Creole aioli, a classic wild shrimp po’ boy and grits with red-eye lamb gravy are also on the menu.
The Senate Ethics Committee is starting to lay the groundwork to possibly expel the New Jersey lawmaker. He faces intensifying pressure to resign before that can happen.
Aunque Greg Abbott no creó la crisis migratoria, un análisis de The New York Times demostró que la extendió al cambiar la lenta difusión de migrantes desde la frontera hasta ciudades y pueblos de todo Estados Unidos y la centró en unos cuantos lugares.
The boy, then 16, survived and has been charged in the death of his 14-year-old passenger. His parents were sentenced to probation and ordered to take parenting classes.
Arva Rice, who led the Civilian Complaint Review Board, had criticized the Police Department and sought more power and funding for the independent agency.
This bustling borough of New York City has been the setting for many novels — including the books in this short quiz.
Gifford Miller, a former City Council speaker who was Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s principal antagonist, has plunged into a new project since leaving politics.
There are more than 90,000 taxis, Ubers and Lyfts in New York City, making it hard for those drivers — and everyone else — to maneuver through the streets.
Catching up on the news, appreciating a counterman’s skills and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Methadone has been used for decades to treat opioid addiction. It is also difficult to come by, a problem health providers hope to ease with a new fleet of vans that can provide the drug.
At least one person, a 56-year-old woman, was found with multiple stab wounds in her neck. A man was in custody, the police said.
New Yorkers have found plenty of ways to navigate heat waves in style.
In two years, Texas has bused more than 119,000 people to Democrat-led cities, shifting both migration patterns and the debate over immigration. The list of cities keeps expanding.
Alessandro Zamperla, the president of the group that manages the park, makes time for espresso and snacks while keeping an eye on all the rides.
Pam Tanowitz’s “Day for Night” flows with and against the current of its surroundings, reflecting the park’s strange mix of the natural and man-made.
Manhattan prosecutors are proceeding with new charges against the disgraced movie mogul after his previous conviction was overturned.
This week's selection includes titles by Jess Row, Dasha Kiper, Rachel Louise Martin and more.
Eva Hesse’s latex and fiberglass pieces from the late 1960s have been reunited from five institutions. Their rapid deterioration makes their future uncertain — which may be their best quality.
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including Childish Gambino’s final album.
Three famous canvases by the painter will be made into life-size installations this weekend in the meatpacking district.
Checking in with New York’s rat czar and the progress she has made in reducing the city’s rodent population.
Betty Gordon came to New York to become an actress (and have a good time). But her greatest talent may have been helping others.
Susan Zhuang, a first-year City Council member from Brooklyn, was charged with assault for biting a police officer. Democrats are split over how harshly to reprimand her.
Burgers and hot dogs, yes, but also jerk oysters and crispy-bottomed seafood paella.
J. Michael Cline was the co-founder of an online ticketing company that changed how Americans went to the movies.
This week’s properties are on the Upper East Side, in Sutton Place and Bedford Stuyvesant.
The Irish bar was opened in Manhattan 57 years ago. The building on East 57th Street has been sold.
Edwin Cordero, 36, died at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where his lawyer said conditions were “awful.”
Building subsidized housing in America relies on cheap land, and creative ideas
Susan Zhuang, who represents a Brooklyn district, was protesting at the site of a proposed homeless shelter. The authorities said she resisted arrest with her teeth.
Luego de un terremoto, un eclipse, calores récord y el caos político, ¿qué sigue en Nueva York? Una bola de fuego en el cielo, por supuesto.
His Texas-style brisket, made with exacting precision, inspired a generation of New York City pit masters, who opened a wave of smoky joints in the 2000s.
Sometimes, the easiest dishes are the toughest to get just right. Ali Slagle, who develops recipes for Times Cooking, wants to help home chefs make fan-favorite foods ‘with feeling.’
Apex, a dinosaur who roamed the Earth 150 million years ago, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s.
Landlords have to keep tenants warm in the winter, but can leave them sweating in the summer. A city councilman wants to change that.
Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was found guilty of bribery and corruption. Leaders in his party are pressuring him to resign.
It had already been a weird few weeks in New York. Then a fireball streaked across the sky.
In many New York City homeless shelters, families need a doctor’s note to have air-conditioners. But some residents say shelters still make it difficult to get them.
ABC No Rio, a cultural center on the Lower East Side, broke ground on the new building, which will replace the tenement it operated out of for more than 40 years.
Hallie Meyer’s new Brooklyn branch of her Irving Place spot deploys the signature cloud of panna on sundaes and affogatos.
Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport will feature work by Charles Gaines, Barbara Kruger and more. Developers of new terminals must invest in public art.
Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City’s criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.
An advertising program brings in $170 million for the M.T.A. and includes audio ads.
The hot spell will continue until Thursday, officials predict, and the city and surrounding areas were placed under a heat advisory.
Transit leaders had already allocated hundreds of millions of dollars before Gov. Kathy Hochul’s last-minute reversal on the long-awaited tolling plan.
Forecasters said that temperatures could feel more like 100 degrees in parts of New Jersey and New York City on Monday and into the mid and upper 90s for the rest of the region.
After more than 40 years in a Williamsburg loft, Noah Jemison says the benefits of his tenure have come with a world of changes outside his windows.
A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.
A city program will offer eight designs that developers can use to make ubiquitous scaffolding more attractive.
Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, lived in the same Washington Heights apartment for more than half a century. Her neighbors said she was gregarious, funny and unabashedly herself.
Mayor Eric Adams is facing a competitive Democratic primary next June. His challengers are sprinting to raise money.
A neighborhood in Queens, New York, turned 1.3 miles of a regular road into an open street for pedestrians, cyclists and playing children, with aims to make some of it into a park.
New York City community boards are known for rejecting development. In Manhattan, one politician is revamping them with appointees who say they are committed to easing the housing crisis.
Even hours after the shooting, some supporters gathered outside the Manhattan building, seeking solace among the shaken.
At a volunteer-run center, migrants come together across cultures and religions to share flavors from their homelands amid a polarizing crisis. But funding is running low.
An unscheduled stop on the M72, an unusual signal for help and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Ms. Kavanagh, the first woman to oversee the New York Fire Department in its nearly 160-year history, gave no explanation for her departure.
The highly contagious disease was detected in a shelter in Brooklyn, according to the health department. More cases of measles have been reported in the city this year than in all of 2023.
A look behind the scenes at the illumination of the pieces on display. The so-called lampers strike a delicate balance between accentuating the art and protecting it from the effects of light.
Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, is retiring at a challenging time for the gay rights movement.
George Gaffney, the top concierge at the Beekman hotel, goes restaurant hopping for breakfast with his family, then helps tourists find the best brunch spots.
The reports were tantalizing, but someone else was behind the expensive purchase.
Senator Robert Menendez is charged with 16 separate crimes, including bribery, obstructing justice and acting as an agent of a foreign government.
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including “Eno,” a generative documentary on the musician Brian Eno.
Is the building’s reputation enough for it to endure as an icon, even as its ownership and interior crumble?
The Chrysler Building is an icon of New York City’s skyline. But with ownership changes, a crumbling interior and newer, glitzier towers surrounding it, the building is at risk of losing that status.
L’Alliance New York will celebrate the 14th of July with festivities marking the 235th anniversary of the famous storming of a Paris prison.
Chicky was beloved by her whole neighborhood. When she was killed by a speeding Jeep, we confronted a cold reality: Her death was considered a property crime.
For many Black women, summertime calls for braids. Pricing for knotless braids, which are faster to braid, feel lighter and have gotten more popular, depends on the length and size of each braid and color blend, and whether hair used in the boho s...
A recent Supreme Court ruling should nullify the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial, his lawyers said. The argument could be a long shot.
A muckraking journalist, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.
Breakfast sandwiches and lattes give way to kosho cod and Lambrusco.
The New York congresswoman was blamed for not being supportive enough of the Palestinian cause and efforts to end the war in Gaza.
The officer, Juan Perez, faces up to 364 days in jail for assault. The victim, who later killed himself in Kosovo, had been throwing water at passers-by.
Amid soaring temperatures, hundreds of activists are staging boisterous blockades and solemn marches at banks and insurers that support fossil fuel projects.
At the drive-in, under the stars or in your living room, there are plenty of frights to be had before fall arrives.
Renting a one-bedroom near two hospitals left a couple yearning for some quiet and a bigger kitchen. Here’s what they found.
This week’s properties are in Turtle Bay, on the Lower East Side and in Kingsbridge.
Extensive cuts totaling $16.5 billion have suspended crucial repairs and upgrades to New York City’s vast transit network.
At CUNY’s Baruch College, Natale Cipollina talks about Roosevelt, Johnson and Nixon. He makes presidential history relevant to today, students say.
The architect who designed some of the 20th century’s great buildings kept a notebook with intimate glimpses into his creative vision. Now it’s his daughter’s final goodbye.
A reporting team hit the streets during rush hour to find out how many cars entered New York City’s business district in one hour — and how much money in tolls the city missed out on.
Starting Jan. 1, large hotels will no longer be able to offer small containers of shampoo and conditioner. The bill is part of an effort to cut down on single-use plastic.
Her writing, from the late 1920s to the late ’40s, about sex, marriage, divorce, child rearing and work-life balance still resonates.
A group is planning a celebration to mark July 4, 2026. The occasion, for short, is known as Semiquin.
The nonprofit organization that steers the popular greenway attraction on Manhattan’s West Side says building a casino in Hudson Yards could harm parkgoers’ experience.
An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.
The lawsuit was part of a wave of litigation against universities over accusations of antisemitism related to campus protests over the war in Gaza.
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said.
Dos periodistas del Times documentaron el viaje de una familia venezolana a Estados Unidos y las dificultades a las que se enfrentaron tras cruzar la frontera.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it was “actively pursuing” a fresh prosecution against the disgraced movie producer. Prosecutors projected a fall trial.
Purslane Cafe, from the group behind Rucola and more, serves sandwiches and drinks; Parcelle adds a new location; and more restaurant news.
8000 kilómetros, 8 países y una familia en su camino a Estados Unidos.
The chefs Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr have restored this French gem on the Upper East Side.
Shani Lechan’s wigs have been worn by cancer patients, neighborhood moms and supermodels. Her golden rule? They can’t look “wiggy.”
A reporter and a visual journalist followed the Aguilar Ortega family during a dangerous journey to the United States.
The designer Rolly Robínson gathered their close friends and collaborators to celebrate their new collection of jungle-themed pieces.
For months, two journalists documented a Venezuelan family’s journey to the United States, and the struggles they faced after they crossed the border.
In the East Village, amid buzzy restaurants and high-end real estate, a troubled section of 14th Street reflects the city’s struggles to control intractable problems.
The body of Yazmeen Williams, 31, had been found on a Manhattan curb, wrapped in a sleeping bag. The police took a man in a wheelchair into custody.
With three children and a dog, the Aguilar Ortega family trekked through the jungle, hopped freight trains and toured Times Square. Significant challenges still lay ahead.
New York City officials, including the comptroller, Brad Lander, are weighing whether to challenge Eric Adams, potentially creating openings in other races.
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul. Also: Criticism of The Times’s Biden-Trump coverage; why voting matters; helping migrants in New York.
Remote work and online shopping have hurt retailers who occupy space leased by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Soon, dining sheds around the city will be dismantled — no matter how attractive they are.
Twenty years after opening in Williamsburg, Catbird is expanding across America.
Nearly 75 percent of shops operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are vacant.
Looking up in Inwood Hill Park, talking hip-hop on Bleecker Street and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Visitors were mostly unaffected by the third and fourth drownings at New York City beaches this season, matching the total number of swimming deaths last summer.
All-cash purchases shot up to 64 percent of home sales in the borough. Here’s who’s buying.
OKCupid nos calificó como “altamente compatibles”. Solo que él era ateo y yo musulmana practicante.
The girls, ages 17 and 18, went into the water near the Coney Island boardwalk as thunderstorms rolled in. It was the second pair of drownings off the city’s beaches in two weeks.
Algunos minoristas como Chick-fil-A están abriendo establecimientos más pequeños, centrados en la comida para llevar, con pocos o ningún asiento.
Take a look at some of the most high-profile real estate listings and sales in June in New York City.
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including Ti West’s new film, “MaXXXine.”
In Williamsburg and Manhattan, robbers have stolen watches worth tens of thousands of dollars before fleeing on motorbikes.
At least 11 people who were celebrating the July 4 holiday were struck by the truck on the Lower East Side, the authorities said.
Police officers arrived at a Jamaica apartment to find a 21-year-old man holding his father at knife point and an 8-year-old fatally wounded, officials said.