Mr. Ramos, Lincoln Center’s artist in residence, makes breakfast for his daughter before heading to the Metropolitan Opera House and a photo shoot — and his own birthday celebration.
The victim was sleeping on a train at Penn Station in Manhattan around 3 a.m. Monday when an 18-year-old man set him on fire, the police said.
The rapper, who was sentenced to two years in prison after testifying for the government at a gang trial, was ordered incarcerated for probation violations.
Chi Ossé had hoped to ride the momentum of Zohran Mamdani to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, but he failed to secure the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America.
He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role of Bill and Hillary Clinton in a failed development venture.
Don’t be shocked: There were Black people and Native Americans during the colonial era.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has turned to crypto kings, movie stars and an oil heir, among others, to help reach his $4 million goal to fund his transition and Jan. 1 inauguration.
Aviation buffs want to be sure that Marine Air Terminal, an Art Deco landmark, will be protected.
Tax accountants and lawyers detail the arduous process wealthy New Yorkers would have to face to avoid paying New York State and city taxes.
Jacob Pritchett, 11, has been missing for months. A judge has said his mother must remain at Rikers Island until she reveals his whereabouts.
A lot of new burgers hit the scene this year. These three are worth the hype.
Just three days after President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman and drug trafficker, got nearly 22 years.
Al liberar al exdirigente de Honduras, el presidente de EE. UU. anuló años de trabajo de uno de sus propios funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia, Emil Bove III.
Where does a painter’s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms.
Antonio Reynoso’s bid to replace Representative Nydia M. Velázquez will most likely be contested by a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
The M.T.A. is deploying a variety of tools to combat fare beating, and the authority says that they are working.
This week’s listings are in Kips Bay, the Upper West Side and Fieldston.
In furnishing his own apartment, Gabriel Hendifar created a place where generations and cultures converge.
The lighting and furniture designer shows off his moody SoHo loft, where both his Steinway & Sons piano and his bed are on elevated stages.
People often don’t know what to do with unwanted fabric items like clothing, bedding and shoes.
Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, has pledged to honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Mr. Netanyahu has been accused of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza. Despite this threat, the prime minister, who spoke at the DealBook conference via video from Israel, said he would visit the city.
He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his pictures of ordinary people.
The billionaire real estate developer’s relationship with Mr. Epstein is in the spotlight, with the release of emails and images of Mr. Epstein’s private home in the Caribbean.
Our first batch of brief starred restaurant reviews, from our contributing critics Mahira Rivers and Ryan Sutton.
A state board has recommended licensing three casinos. If they go ahead, they will provide revenues for mass transit starting next year.
Emil Bove III’s work as a prosecutor, before he was a Trump lawyer and official, helped lead to the conviction of the Honduran ex-leader whom President Trump freed this week.
Subway and bus fare evasion cost New York’s transit system nearly $1 billion last year. Will an arsenal of new tricks turn the tide?
Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, had called his office’s drug prosecution of an ex-president of Honduras a success. President Trump decided to free him this week.
Dean Whetzel, 82, had known Dana Escoffier, 79, for decades. When Mr. Whetzel bumped into him near their Village apartments, Mr. Escoffier shoved him, the police said, and he fell to the ground.
A Pennsylvania patrolman said a superior had offered him a hoagie if he responded to a call at a local McDonald’s. The officer recognized the suspect and then played for time.
Godunk offers up a spread of Thai dishes, Golden Ratio leans into fruits and vegetables for its cocktails and more restaurant news.
It was all roast beef, chocolate cake and air kisses at the Gotham Awards in Lower Manhattan.
The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month.
A new documentary contains zesty character studies of competing New York City tree vendors as they prepare for the holiday season.
The settlement with Starbucks stems from more than half a million violations, including failing to give workers stable schedules.
The S.S. United States was an opulent passenger steamship. Now it might be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.
As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas begins, here are some novel ways to enjoy the holidays, including a poetry weekend and a Coltrane tribute.
A state board is scheduled to recommend licenses for as many as three full-fledged casinos to the state’s gaming commission, which is expected to follow the recommendations.
Lawyers for Mr. Mangione, accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan, will ask a judge to throw out evidence gathered when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.
Forecasters expected the storm to track up the Eastern Seaboard Monday night into Tuesday, leaving as much as a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast.
China’s fast-food and beverage chains have an opportunity to expand in the United States and escape cutthroat competition at home.
He spent months searching the wreckage of the World Trade Center for his son’s remains, then suffered lung illnesses attributed to toxic dust.
Nearly 200 protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving a parking garage in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. The confrontation appeared to prevent a possible ICE raid nearby, and led to violent clashes between the police and protesters.
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, has criticized the N.Y.P.D.’s surveillance tactics. He reappointed the police commissioner who helped create a ubiquitous web of monitoring.
Discovering a restaurant host’s daring back story, a Brooklyn feud and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.
Ms. Rooks, a sports journalist, starts her day with matcha and ends with W.W.E. In between? A little glam and fitness.
After a crowded stoop sale on a Brooklyn block caught one reporter’s eye, he traced the items to Georgia — and an elusive figure known as Miss Paula.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a vital New York City artery. But for years now it’s been crumbling, and there is no consensus about how to fix it. Our reporter Winnie Hu goes to the B.Q.E. to unpack things.
Four restaurants to check out before the holiday crowds descend in full force.
Crowds in New York City bundled up to take in the latest version of a tradition that has run for nearly a century.
When their Ditmas Park apartment became too cramped, a young family looked for a house in central Brooklyn where they could spread out. Here’s what they found.
A global sensation gets her moment at the Thanksgiving Day parade.
This week’s properties are in Carnegie Hill, Harlem and Clinton Hill.
ABBA Voyage, the popular London show, features holograph versions of the Swedish pop band when they were decades younger.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
Teams of workers in New York City began inflating balloons on Wednesday for the 99th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
We tagged along to a late-night rehearsal for performers from “Just in Time,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Ragtime.”
Julie Menin, a councilwoman from the Upper East Side, was seen by some supporters as a necessary check on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist with an ambitious policy agenda.
Contemporary life, speculative fiction, Asian futurism and social documentary all meet in Ayoung Kim’s videos at MoMA PS1. And are they fun to watch!
The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” against the British.
Artificial intelligence is unpopular and uncool — so A.I. companies are making ads that don’t even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off?
A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.
What’s a worst-case scenario for hurricane flooding in New York City? Our reporter Hilary Howard, who covers the environment in the region, explores how bad it could get as climate change powers increasingly extreme rainfall and devastating storm surges.
The 99th edition of the New York parade will feature performances from Cynthia Erivo and Busta Rhymes, as well as dozens of floats and balloons.
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1. His request for resignations targeted political appointees.
The defendant, Pedro Hernandez, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping the 6-year-old, who disappeared in 1979 in SoHo.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won praise for his meeting with President Trump. But Michelle Wu, the like-minded mayor of Boston, said “flattery is not the way.”
The Trump administration is pushing a new approach to America’s homeless crisis, favoring shelters and rehabilitation centers over long-term housing for people who use drugs and alcohol.
Heavy rain would make a hurricane catastrophic. See the neighborhoods that could face the worst flooding.
Gertie moves from Williamsburg to Prospect Heights, Michelin shakes things up and more restaurant news.
Restaurant owners in Brooklyn have warned one another about a woman who frequents their establishments, photographs her food and then doesn’t pay for it.
The city’s history can be understood through the people who sell food on sidewalks. Here’s how New York could set them up for success.
Nara Smith, the model, mother of four and influencer best known for making recipes “from scratch” for her family, is pursuing a new role: business mogul.
Abuse by guards has increased significantly in the past three years, a New York Times investigation found.
Not even Brooklyn could tempt Christopher Stone and David Fox to leave their shoebox in the West Village.
In shows like “Black Watch,” “The Jungle” and “Oklahoma!,” the institution has affirmed the theater’s singular power to shock and illuminate our world.
There is a push to revive single-room occupancy housing, where kitchens and bathrooms are shared among apartments as small as 100 square feet each.
Several Democratic incumbents are facing primary battles after Zohran Mamdani’s win suggested that being pro-Israel was no longer a universal selling point.
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
A hearing in Brooklyn was packed as Mr. Billups and 30 other defendants answered charges in a sweeping federal indictment involving rigged poker games.
Meadow Lane opened to immense hype and long lines. Despite early hiccups, some New Yorkers are still eager to shop designer provisions.
It was the second murder in Midtown in roughly 24 hours. The attack came about a week after Kris Boyd, a player for the New York Jets, was shot in the area.
After years of declining sales, records set from major collections (Klimt, Kahlo) primed the auction houses for a rebound at the top.
Plus, a new crash-test dummy.
The new ball will have more lights and round crystals and can be visited year-round, for a price.
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.
In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, said he had made a forceful case to the president that troops were not needed in the city.
A night out in Queens, changing a tire in the Bronx and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Funding for doulas may be safe in New York, for now. But elsewhere, health experts are concerned that President Trump’s domestic policy law could jeopardize access to maternal care.
On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Nechemya Weberman, convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl in a politically charged case, is seeking a new, shorter sentence with the Brooklyn district attorney’s support.
New York City loves to tell stories about itself. In the new low-budget film “Bunny,” the East Village of the ’90s — before Whole Foods and Target arrived — is a nostalgic template.
Gaten Matarazzo, a breakout star of Netflix’s megahit horror series, attends Rangers hockey games with his dad and walks the Hudson River with his girlfriend.
Zohran Mamdani and President Trump seemed to cast aside their months of traded insults, a development that seemed good for New York City but odd to some followers.
Since his election, Zohran Mamdani has made some surprisingly pragmatic or traditional choices — including his surreal meeting with President Trump.
Acid insults were set aside as New York’s mayor-elect and the president promoted their shared goals.
After months of warning voters that Zohran Mamdani posed an existential threat to New York City, President Trump showered praise on the mayor-elect at the White House on Friday. Following an off-camera meeting, Trump said he felt “very confident” that Mamdani would do a good job. “I think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually.”
The meeting between President Trump and the incoming mayor of New York City was strikingly warm for two men who had expressed deep concerns about each other’s leadership.
In one of his earliest viral videos, Zohran Mamdani asked New Yorkers why they had decided to vote for President Trump. What he heard shaped his campaign.
At least seven counties had been affected by the interruption in celebrations for people who were becoming naturalized citizens.
President Trump and Zohran Mamdani have pelted each other with insults from afar. They are meeting in person on Friday.
The Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster became known for her work with struggling parishes. She says young people who are experiencing an “epidemic of loneliness” are turning to the church.
After club floors became stilted in the TikTok era, nightlife spaces in New York started to ban phones. “I’d rather live in the moment and feel the joy,” one reveler said.
As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.
As a boy in Brooklyn, Adrien Nunez dreamed of playing in the N.B.A. He got close, but it turns out he had a gift for singing at the top of his lungs in his car.
Passengers on the Midtown Direct lines were being dropped off at the Hoboken station because of a repair to a rail switch nearby.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will go to the White House on Friday. The stakes are high for the city.
At Sotheby’s, he provided famous diamonds to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton before reviving Verdura, a venerable jewelry company founded by a Sicilian duke.
Ms. Velázquez, 72, a 16-term congresswoman, said it was time for a new generation of Democrats to step forward.
Becky Hughes, our resident restaurant advice columnist, answers three queries in this week’s Where to Eat.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani argued that an endorsement of a left-leaning ally, Chi Ossé, would hurt his efforts to secure mainstream Democratic support for his proposals.
Classics from the cocktail canon, dive bar favorites and no fewer than five martinis.
The group, which powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rise in 2018, is backing Darializa Avila Chevalier’s bid to unseat Representative Adriano Espaillat.
The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches.
In “Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa,” the artist mines the museum’s vaults for an exhibition that gives new meaning to what he found there.
This week’s properties are in the West Village, Chelsea and Astoria.
Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect’s populist brand of socialism can push back against it.
It’s unlikely, according to a report by the Swiss bank UBS, but some markets are more vulnerable than others.
La icónica tienda de la esquina es quizá el símbolo definitivo de una ciudad en constante evolución y movimiento.
The meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and President Trump will come after the two men have fiercely attacked one another.
This fall, The Times’s Food contributor Luke Fortney checked in on three of New York City’s biggest restaurant openings, all a few blocks apart in the West Village.
The New York City mayor-to-be, Zohran Mamdani, and the head of the Police Department, Jessica Tisch, have gaps to bridge on crime and policing.
Miriam Yarimi, a wig maker with a big social media presence, ran a red light in Brooklyn before slamming into the family members. The deaths spurred calls for increased traffic safety.
The former conservative lawyer built a social media following with his harsh criticism of President Trump, who was the boss of his wife at the time.
Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, de 40 años, salió el lunes de una cárcel de Nueva York donde había estado recluido sin su bastón. Fue una medida sorprendente por parte de una agencia que rara vez libera a detenidos.
Commissioner Tisch, the current head of the N.Y.P.D., said she had agreed to serve in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
Mr. Nadler’s coveted House seat in Manhattan will be up for grabs next year in a district that is the wealthiest in New York.
Cameron Kasky is a Parkland school shooting survivor; Mathew Shurka helped form a group to pressure Congress to ban conversion therapy.
The project in Dumbo and Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, involved replacing cobblestones and the infrastructure underneath them.
The architect Morris Adjmi made a steel stove and a fountain key elements of his outdoor space at his Fort Greene, Brooklyn, townhouse.
Thomas Homan said that additional federal agents would descend on the city if it did not help with President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, 40, was released on Monday from an upstate New York jail where he had been held without his cane. It was a surprising move by an agency that rarely frees detainees.
In the waning days of his term, Mayor Eric Adams is spending a significant portion of his time far from New York City.
Mohamed Bahi, prosecutors said, coached witnesses to lie during an investigation of Mayor Eric Adams. The judge noted the perception that Mr. Bahi was left “holding the bag.”
Readers respond to a guest essay about artificial (and human) intelligence and consciousness. Also: Kennedy Center ripple effects; cobblestone streets.
A new agave and wine lounge, a tortilleria and cafe from the Corima team and more restaurant news.
Nurses and guards in Oneida County, N.Y., cracked wise and complained about poor equipment as Antwan Cater lay unconscious in a drug-induced seizure. His father has filed a lawsuit in the case.
The state law largely prohibits immigration arrests in state and local courthouses. A federal judge said it was not unconstitutional.
Officials have unveiled six new designs, in the biggest reimagining of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds in decades.
A street sign will be unveiled on 34th Street to honor a long-serving diplomat. For years, he was an emissary without a country.
These proposals from The Times’s archives never came to pass. For most of them, that’s probably for the best.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian man, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn on Monday. He led the Maniac Murder Cult, an online neo-Nazi group blamed for eruptions of violence around the world.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hoped to press President Trump to help ease the affordability crisis. His remarks came a day after Mr. Trump said he wanted to “see everything work out well for New York.”
The defendants contacted a man on the jury and arranged to meet him on Staten Island, where they offered $100,000 for an acquittal, prosecutors say. A new jury will be anonymous.
Mr. Adams, whose tenure as mayor of New York City ends in six weeks, is using his second trip to Israel in three years to reinforce his staunch support of the country.
Kwame Taylor-Hayford and Tamara Tribula, who own the fashion retailer August Market, transformed a Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse for their young family.