The men used fake paperwork to steal more than 4,000 Prada, Gucci and Chanel items from a cargo area at the airport, prosecutors say.
The material that rained down from a tower terrified passers-by, though no one was injured. The building will be the second-tallest residential skyscraper in the city.
Patients with serious cases are spending less time in the hospital on average and are less likely to be put on ventilators. Fewer are dying.
And despite an overall slowdown in New York City closings in the final weeks before the presidential election, October’s biggest sale was a $65.6 million Central Park duplex.
Remnants of 19th-century Bushwick still exist at the William Ulmer Brewery. A castle-like, two-story office is on the market as residences, while other plans have been stalled by the pandemic.
With a typewriter and a mailbox, a sidewalk project explores the art of consoling those who need good news.
Trick-or-treating is allowed in the city, as long as it's outdoors, but spooky traditions will look far different during the pandemic.
The old William Ulmer Brewery in Bushwick is trying to push its way into the present day.
Some New Yorkers are trying to find a way to celebrate Halloween despite concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
Free lunch. Discounted parking. Learning pods for children. Some New York City companies are offering incentives to workers who are required to return to the office.
Derek Trucios, 17, was the third teenager to die in Brooklyn this week, as a wave of gun violence takes a high toll among young New Yorkers.
“Rats crawling on him, he can’t move,” said the brother of the man, who was rescued after about 30 minutes and remains hospitalized in stable condition.
At least 700,000 voters have flocked to New York City poll sites since early voting began, causing long waits in some places. Here’s what voters at the site with the most assigned voters in the city had to say.
They came to work when death counts were horrific and the risks enormous. Now they fear for their jobs. At one home, they agreed to speak out.
This week’s properties are in Park Slope, Lenox Hill and Woodside.
This week’s properties are in Park Slope, Lenox Hill and Woodside.
In New York, trick-or-treating has been curtailed, and parades called off. But there are plenty of ways to please and spook the little ones.
Ashleigh Kaneski figured she couldn’t afford to buy a one-bedroom in the city, but she could keep her tiny rental and invest in a house in the Catskills. Then she had second thoughts.
Stores will be allowed to use nearby spaces outside to display merchandise and conduct transactions, the mayor said.
With business travel all but stopped, city hotels and tourist organizations have made a full-court press to attract local and nearby leisure travelers with bottom-barrel rates and extra perks.
A police officer facing charges for his conduct during a social-distancing arrest has retired. The incident caused an uproar over racial disparities in such arrests.
A new report found that service cuts could cost the New York metropolitan area 450,000 jobs by 2022, resulting in $50 billion in lost earnings.
The family behind ABC Carpet & Home has been enchanting the city with otherworldly finds for over a century.
A Lithuanian collector is shutting his espionage museum in Manhattan after less than two years, citing the pandemic.
David Correia was charged with duping investors in a start-up he founded with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Just 26 percent of students have attended any in-person class.
Más de una decena de víctimas ofrecieron un testimonio desgarrador sobre el modo en el que Keith Raniere las manipuló y abusó sexualmente de ellas.
Some cities put international travelers under strict observation for signs of coronavirus infection. Others barely notice when they land. Dispatches from seven arrival halls.
Many see the job as their civic duty, especially during a pandemic.
Fifteen victims gave wrenching testimony about Mr. Raniere's manipulation and sexual abuse. He was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
The body of Vanessa Pierre, 29, was found on the side of a Queens highway. Her boyfriend has been charged with murder.
Más de una decena de víctimas testificaron en la audiencia previa a que la corte dicte sentencia al fundador del culto sexual, encontrado culpable de tráfico sexual, extorsión y otros crímenes.
The second digital program of the festival, with premieres by Kyle Abraham and Dormeshia, is a worthy substitute for live dance.
Mokyo, in the East Village, shows an unusual level of creativity and even formality.
The project from a group called the George Floyd Justice Billboard Committee features a painting by Donald Perlis and a quote from the Dalai Lama.
Astor Place Hairstylists has been a beacon of cool for decades, but the virus devastated its business.
Kyungmin Kay Hyun borrows flavors from Mexico, Spain and Japan for her small plates at Mokyo, in the East Village.
A judge in Manhattan has rejected the Justice Department’s move to intervene in Ms. Carroll’s suit against President Trump, whom she has accused of rape.
The Justice Department tried to intervene to represent President Trump against the lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who claims he lied when he denied raping her.
In the courtroom, more than a dozen victims gave wrenching testimony about how he manipulated and sexually abused them.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
At his sentencing hearing, more than a dozen victims told the court about how Mr. Raniere manipulated them. He is facing life in prison.
It can be lonely living alone, especially during a pandemic, so some renters are finding new places with friends and sharing both the experience and the rent.
In “The Kidnapping Club,” Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War.
Only about a quarter of public school students have shown up for in-person instruction, reflecting a range of concerns among parents.
To combat the coronavirus, schools across America moved students outdoors. Here’s a look at four new learning environments.
The lyricist of “Fiddler on the Roof” and many other shows has always worked at home, in the Beresford apartment he shares with his wife, Margery.
Nearly 315,000 New Yorkers cast their ballots on the first three days of early voting. Many reported waiting in line for hours.
Ansel Oommen, an artist and medical lab worker, has turned biohazard labels into an outlet for pandemic grief and trauma.
More than one million residents are out of work, and the unemployment rate is nearly double the national average.
Visiting during the pandemic can feel a bit lonely. Museum directors worry that will persist far into 2021.
“It’s awkward because the track record for the ownership here is not great,” one customer said. “But it’s also an institution. My parents shopped here.”
For weeks, I’d bike by this group of older New Yorkers holding placards in front of a Foodtown near Harlem. One day I asked them what they were up to.
The lawsuit argues that if bowling alleys, casinos and gyms can open, why can’t performance venues with fewer than 200 seats?
Keith Raniere, the group’s leader, styled himself a visionary, but a jury found him guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking and other charges.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced on Monday that due to coronavirus restrictions, just over a quarter of the city’s public school students have attended any in-person classes since schools reopened last month.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing a major test: Will children return to public schools over the next few weeks?
Early voting began on Saturday in New York and tens of thousands of voters waited hours to cast their ballots with lines stretching for blocks outside polling sites.
A group of President Trump supporters that identifies itself as Jews for Trump held a rally on New York City’s streets on Sunday. Supporters were met with clashes from antifa groups and Democratic supporters.
Some staffers read or watch Netflix at the office, while others punch in and then go shopping or to the gym, current and former employees said.
Several victims are expected to testify when Keith Raniere, the founder of Nxivm, is sentenced this week for sex trafficking, extortion and other crimes.
Touch-free buttons, foot pedals, holograms — New York City buildings scramble to make the ride up feel safer.
For the first time ever, New Yorkers cast their ballots early for a presidential election, sometimes standing in line for five hours.
Three roommates support each other through the pandemic and fumigation, and luck into a bigger apartment for the same price.
Eleven people were arrested, and protesters screamed at Rudy Giuliani. Separately, a police officer was suspended for voicing support for the president on the job.
Ethan Williams, who had long dreamed of moving to New York, became another victim of the wave of gun violence that has shaken the city.
Ethan Williams, who had long dreamed of moving to New York, became another victim of the wave of gun violence that has shaken the city.
The couple’s lawyer threatens to sue over scathing billboards that were put up by an anti-Trump group, the Lincoln Project.
The former New York City Ballet dancer who sent intimate photos of his girlfriend to others presents himself as a victim in a new court filing.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
Flirting on Mott Street, waiting for the M and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
At Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center and other sites, people arrived hours before polls opened. This is the first time that early voting has been allowed in New York in a presidential election.
Voters in New York City waited hours to cast ballots on Saturday, the first time that early voting has been allowed in the state in a presidential election.
City gyms were allowed to reopen on Sept. 2, but lingering concerns about indoor workouts mean many may not endure.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is expected to cruise to re-election, yet the race for her congressional seat is the second most expensive House campaign in the nation.
In her first New York solo exhibition at Madison Square Park, Abigail DeVille conjures a long line of freedom fighters.
In her first New York solo exhibition at Madison Square Park, Abigail DeVille conjures a long line of freedom fighters.
President Trump derided the city at the debate, and has depicted it as an “anarchist jurisdiction,” apparently in an effort to appeal to his base.
While we may not miss getting onto crowded trains, we may long for the clear boundaries between home and work that a commute created.
How the Halloween industry plans on making haunted houses socially distant, sanitized and still terrifying.
The need for privacy has driven some people to rent hotel rooms, vacant apartments and empty offices.
Sandra Goldmark can repair a tattered sofa or a broken coffee maker. So many of her neighbors, trapped amid their stuff, are seeking her out.
The pandemic is causing inequality to soar, but increasingly the privileged are discovering that they can’t bend the world to their will.
From Saturday to Nov. 1, city voters can cast their ballots at their assigned sites. Absentee ballots can also be dropped off at those sites.
The New-York Historical Society’s crash course in governmental innovation, paused for the pandemic, reopens at just the right moment.
Soaring inventory and discounted rents in Manhattan have pushed the median to the lowest price in nearly a decade.
Shootings that plagued the city for most of the summer have not abated, and some city leaders question whether the police have backed off enforcement.
The firm, Elliott Management, led by Paul Singer, will transfer its headquarters to West Palm Beach, Fla., because of the pandemic.
The Manhattan district attorney has tried to ensure Paul Manafort would still face prison time if President Trump pardoned him.
Movies, podcasts, cemetery walks and more: Our guide to enjoying a socially distant fright fest.
New York City, Seattle and Portland, Ore., all so-called “anarchist jurisdictions,” are trying to stop the Trump administration from withholding federal funds.
Bill T. Jones and David Byrne are preparing to make use of the Armory’s vast space now. One hitch: Theaters still can’t open in New York State.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai welcomed first-year students with a virtual “white coat” ceremony, during which they referenced the coronavirus and Black Lives Matter.
This year, reduced portions of everything, but Program 1 had two dazzlers: a Jamar Roberts solo and a Sara Mearns-David Hallberg duet to Joni Mitchell.
A wild meadow and woodland ‘ruin’ are now on exuberant display. The new, ecologically minded garden boasts shaggy clouds of vegetation.
The transcript, from 2016, was part of a defamation lawsuit filed in Manhattan.
Ms. Maxwell, who fought to keep the deposition secret, repeatedly denied that she helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit and sexually abuse teenage girls.
Through the medium of the touchscreen, the pioneering American artist has found a channel to fuse his body and his work space.
This week’s properties are in Cobble Hill, Kingsbridge Heights and Sutton Place.
This week’s properties are in Cobble Hill, Kingsbridge Heights and Sutton Place.
Dealers in Manhattan, facing new challenges, scramble to bring the art to the audience.
New exhibitions of up-to-the-moment drawings illustrate our historic moment, even as it unfolds.
Schools and nonessential business can reopen in some zones that were deemed virus hot spots, but restrictions remain or tighten elsewhere.
The police said an attack on the pianist was not a hate crime, but social media disagreed. Now he’s considering a return to Japan.
Hunting during the pandemic was a challenge for these newlyweds, but it didn’t stop them from seeking out the gyms, pools and shuttles that Manhattan’s newer rental towers offer.
New York is carrying out early voting in a presidential election for the first time in its history. But the city’s Board of Elections has come under scrutiny because of earlier failures.
Love stories cut short by the unexpected live on in alternate endings.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new digital map also includes updates on elevators and escalators that are out of service.
Performers share fragmented reveries in “Electric Feeling Maybe,” while “Voyeur” brings a touch of Paris to the West Village.
The move allows reopening of schools and nonessential business in the zones, but tough restrictions in other parts of the city remain.
Rivane Neuenschwander’s violent, gorgeously colored tapestries at Tanya Bonakdar; and Emma Amos’s paintings of people who fall, fly and break free.
Public monuments, and the artists who create them, are beginning to represent women and their achievements.
The self-response rate was higher than predicted, equaling the 2010 count despite what the mayor called “so many more challenges in the way.”
As the number of virus cases rises, anxious residents are taking precautions and making sure they are prepared this time.
Providing more Americans with portable health care, portable pensions and opportunities for lifelong learning is what politics needs to be about post-Nov. 3.
They wanted to marry. But he’d taken a vow of celibacy.
The TriBeCa restaurant has taken over the former Arcade Bakery space for its new bakery, featuring breads made with uncommon grains like malted corn.
For lovers of all things sprinkles, there’s a new shoe collaboration between Vans and Flour Shop.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
Thousands more New Yorkers have showed up at the city’s food banks since the pandemic began. As federal and city benefits are tied up in politics, New Yorkers are left to figure out how to get by.
After months of delays and a lawsuit, the statewide ban on the single-use bags is being enforced. Paper bags are now 5 cents.
Dr. Wendy Ziecheck has found a new specialty: helping dancers to work together safely. “Testing was the key to making this happen,” she says.
The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city’s efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation.
The governor warned that the gathering could be a superspreader event; a synagogue representative accused officials of “unwarranted attacks.”
The governor warned that the gathering could be a superspreader event; a synagogue representative accused officials of “unwarranted attacks.”
The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city’s efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation.
A new report found pervasive examples of racial bias — some explicit, some subtle — in New York State’s court system.
Church leaders, who have clashed with the governor before, said that Catholics have followed mask and social-distancing rules.
What’s more New York than slapping a name on a collection of streets? One Manhattan area has the rare chance to christen its own neighborhood.
The ultra-Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn accused state officials of “unwarranted attacks” on the wedding.
A farewell to the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Times journalist.
A beer delivery in Brooklyn, an emergency saxophone repair and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
For decades, Republicans in Manhattan carved out a niche by embracing socially liberal causes. President Trump’s election destroyed that centrism.
Chirlane McCray, who had considered running for borough president, said she wants to focus on helping the city recover from the pandemic.
Like way, way down. That could harm millions of Black, Latino and low-income students who enter the higher education system through the system.
Exotic finishes and ever-clubbier amenities in new developments have given way to livability and calming design.
New York is trying something novel for an American city in the pandemic: allowing reopenings in some areas while shutting down businesses and schools that are just blocks away.
Several new high-end projects come to New York City, with some pandemic adjustments.
At gatherings in empty lots all over New York, loudness is the point. But how much are weary residents supposed to take?
The pandemic has given the famous stretch of Midtown, long a hub and destination for all things jewelry, its share of troubles.
For the past century, the New School produced iconoclastic thinkers. Now it is finding that idealism is very expensive.
Michael Tennant, who created the Actually Curious card game, is leading virtual workshops that take on divisiveness.
One of the highest-ranking and longest-serving Black executives on Wall Street is entering the Democratic race eight months before the primary.
Outdoor seating and dropping temperatures have created a demand for warming cocktails at New York City bars.
We miss theater. And we know you do too. So we asked you to share some memories with us.
The memorial, announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is one of several efforts to honor Justice Ginsburg in Brooklyn, where she grew up.
A Black Southerner recalls segregation in life and in death. Also: Men and masks; when doctors overprescribe; a favorite New York City walking destination.
The building that is home to Manhattan’s Hunter College High temporarily closed after three students tested positive for the virus.
El Museo del Barrio celebrates its own electric history, and present, in a show about the Puerto Rican workshop Taller Boricua.