Rafael Ruiz always maintained he did not take part in a gang rape in 1984.
Rafael Ruiz always maintained he did not take part in a gang rape in 1984.
A decades-old campaign that knew how to talk to teenagers persuaded millions of them to never start smoking. Can it now persuade them never to misuse opioids?
A quick pick-me-up (and drop me down!) in the heart of the busy city.
A new wave of cooks are hosting meals that explore their personal memories and culinary traditions.
For a summer meal, Chinchakriya Un and her mother, Kim Eng Mann, made lobster with Cambodian spices, rice and grilled corn in coconut milk at the King Tai bar in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an architect of the C.I.A. interrogation program said he told the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks: “I will cut your son’s throat.”
In a stripped-down tavern, the chef Nick Anderer serves chopped liver, Ukrainian ham and other immigrant foods that helped form the city’s palate.
In a stripped-down corner tavern, the chef Nick Anderer conjures up a vision of the city before he was born.
In cities, many people think “density” means crowded neighborhoods and greedy developers, but a new show at the Skyscraper Museum tells a different story.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
The city's health commissioner has urged calm as cases of the dangerous new coronavirus crop up in a number of states.
Good Stock, which has a cafe in the West Village, now sells its vegan and vegetarian soups online.
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, a pop-up store celebrates Chinatown with art.
The West Village restaurant has shuttered just weeks after its owner, Ken Friedman, agreed to a monetary settlement with 11 former employees.
A reader who chronicled the basketball star’s early career says “he also lit up a room.” Also: The departure of New York’s subways chief.
In Queens, some who recently returned from China have even self-quarantined. But officials have urged calm.
His projects included a quixotic quest to sketch everyone in New York City.
Ground zero workers had higher rates of cancer, especially prostate and thyroid cancers and leukemia.
Once acquaintances as members of the wealthy Manhattan elite, Michael Bloomberg and President Trump have become bitter rivals. And a flurry of Bloomberg attack ads is angering the president.
Miriam Haley testified that Harvey Weinstein assaulted her, but defense lawyers said that emails showed an amicable relationship.
The actresses Annabella Sciorra and Rosie Perez testified at the proceeding, and prosecutors offered tawdry details about what they said were assaults on women.
Historians recently uncovered another Soviet spy in the U.S. atomic bomb program. Fresh disclosures show he worked on the device’s explosive trigger.
The dirty history behind isolating the sick.
Ruben Diaz Jr., the Bronx borough president, said that he would no longer seek public office and hoped to spend more time with his family.
Mr. Weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting two women, but four others will also testify about their encounters with him.
I reported a story of two brothers, both killed by police officers, and the devastating impacts of their deaths.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
A fresh start, a table at Grand Central and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Sometimes, the decision to move is made for you. But sometimes you just want a change. Here’s how to work through your options.
The president of the Museum of Chinese in America said that she was “just distraught” and that the collection was one of a kind.
Andy Byford has been praised for reversing the decline of the system. Now transit leaders “don’t want to lose the momentum.”
When Phillip Lim finally decided to put his kitchen to use, he followed his nose back to the fragrant dishes of his childhood.
Ms. Perez told jurors that, decades ago, her fellow actress Annabella Sciorra “swore me never to tell” that she was attacked by Harvey Weinstein.
Thomas Heatherwick, who created the Vessel at Hudson Yards, has designed buildings where every window is a bay window.
A building critical to several community groups in Chinatown was heavily damaged during a massive blaze Thursday night.
It took a lot of nerve (and a very understanding landlord) to do what one Russia-born designer and his partner did. And it wasn’t the first time.
One hundred years ago, newspapers, radios and fishmongers ruled the oldest neighborhood in New York.
When he’s not hiding his Sour Patch Kids habit from his wife, the SNL alum is all about pleasing his dog and therapist.
How the shooting of one brother paved the way for the other’s death, seven years later.
The New York law has been on the books for less than a month and already the critics are on the attack.
When Mr. Byford was brought in to overhaul the subway system, many New Yorkers saw his plans and can-do attitude as a signal of hope.
Now it’s up to Governor Cuomo to build on the departing subway chief’s impressive progress.
He and his partner broke the heroin case that inspired that 1971 film. After he retired, he became a movie and television producer and consultant.
He helped institute safeguards for tenants of 1.4 million rent-controlled apartments in the ’60s and was a key player behind the Rent Stabilization Law.
Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to film series and special screenings.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
How a local favorite lost its way: numerous missteps and a nationwide disruption in the supermarket industry.
Kafe Louverture, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Branch Patty, at Artists & Fleas Williamsburg, make two variations on the beloved treat.
Branch Patty pops up each weekend at Artists & Fleas Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Patties and excellent Haitian coffee are the main draw at Kafe Louverture in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Using video projections, the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko reclaims public spaces for marginalized viewpoints.
This week’s properties are in Morningside Heights, Midtown and Park Slope, Brooklyn.
This week’s properties are in Morningside Heights, Midtown and Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The handbag one T editor is using for an organized 2020 — and more.
Investigators continued to investigate Saudi links to 9/11 even after high-level officials discounted connections.
New York lawmakers passed a bill that puts New York at the forefront of a national movement to ban cashless businesses.
Dozens of residents of an independent living community in Manhattan — some as old as 99 — are being forced out of the homes they thought they’d die in.
A small team of agents spent years investigating whether one of Washington’s closest allies was involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.
After taking a job in Park Slope, Linda Kudla made frequent trips from Massachusetts to see apartments in the neighborhood. Here’s where she wound up.
No, according to a spokeswoman. But the beloved New York supermarket chain faces an uncertain future.
“He knew our city better than anyone else,” a colleague said, “and made it his goal for everyone else to know it, too.”
We sent four photographers to capture New York’s soundscape in images. Here’s what they saw (and heard).
During his tenure, 1980-93, the university was restored to financial health, divested from companies tied to South Africa and admitted women to its college.
‘Souls Grown Diaspora,’ a movement’s northern reach; Frederick Weston’s ‘Blue Bedroom Blues’; Nicholas Krushenick’s collages; Eric Brown’s ‘Longhand’ paintings.
Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.
Speculation of the grocery chain’s possible closings set off lamentations on social media, though some said the chain had lost its luster.
A prosecutor offered graphic details, including that Harvey Weinstein showed up uninvited outside Annabella Sciorra’s hotel room in his underwear.
The Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, sparked a fierce debate about gentrification after saying newcomers should “go back to Iowa.”
The Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, sparked a conversation on gentrification and what makes someone a New Yorker.
Las Delicias Patisserie has opened a shop in Chelsea Local on the lower level of the Chelsea Market.
Prison is still likely for Mr. Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly speaker.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
The fire in the Midwood neighborhood also left one firefighter injured. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
Over 7,000 electronics items were found throughout the subway system last year. Earbuds are the most common thing lost.
The Army Corps of Engineers is looking at several plans, and all but one of them involve some kind of wall.
After defending the stop-and-frisk policing tactic, the former mayor apologized. But black voters in the Democratic presidential race may not forgive him.
L. Antonio Litman, who recently bought hoverboards for children in the neighborhood, was found dead after an overnight blaze at his home.
A woodworker spent six years turning his apartment into ‘a delightful, strange, kooky space.’ Then his landlord nearly doubled the rent.
I reported on an app, created by the company Clearview AI, that can identify people in seconds using a trove of photos collected from across the web.
I reported on an app, created by the company Clearview AI, that can identify people in seconds using a trove of photos collected from across the web.
A man accused of robbing banks in New York City had been released under a Jan. 1 law that ended bail for most nonviolent charges.
Subway service on the A, C and D lines was suspended on Sunday morning after the second major water main break in a week.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.
At the corner laundromat, human punctuation on the subway and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Finding a suitable short-term home is challenging. But in the last few years, a new industry has sprung up with more options for renters like your daughter.
Awkwafina returns to Queens. A Maine paper mill finds a savior in China. Olivia Palermo. Mohammed bin Zayed. Dog the Bounty Hunter. And more.
The rising star is accused of transporting the car to New York from Los Angeles. It was found outside his mother’s Brooklyn home.
A new law in New York City lets parents remove their obstetricians’ names if their medical licenses were revoked for misconduct.
The defense is “systematically eliminating every young white woman,” a prosecutor said during jury selection.
Passengers from Wuhan, China, will be screened at J.F.K. beginning Friday night, and in San Francisco and Los Angeles starting on Saturday.
Our critic explores Yuichiro Ukai’s pen-and-marker dinosaurs and samurai, ceramic animals from the Peruvian Amazon and the photography of Vivian Maier.
A six-mile-long barrier would help protect the city from floodwaters during fierce storms like Sandy, but critics say rising seas make the option inadequate.
The Times's architecture critic discusses how the development is changing the Far West Side, and the city as a whole.
New development threatens views of the Empire State Building from the Flatiron Building.
New development endangers views of the Empire State Building.
The mandolin player recently moved his radio show to New York.
Bureaucracy — no surprise — gets in the way of expanding the pool of volunteers.
As the retailer goes through liquidation, employees at its flagship store say they haven’t received information about a closing date, severance pay or benefits.
Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to film series and special screenings.
The mayor proposed a city budget with the smallest percentage increase in his six years in office, fearing a state deficit.
The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles makes unflinching art about violent death and its aftermath. Her newest photographs and installations are now in New York City.
Listen to the actress’s recorded subway announcements, now playing on the No. 7 train for one week. “Welcome to my borough!”
This Chelsea restaurant, where gandzili, a cousin to ramps, is served alongside the better-known adjaruli khachapuri, honors the cuisine’s rustic simplicity.
“I spent my whole life explaining my culture,” said Tamara Chubinidze, who opened Chama Mama in March, where many country-style dishes are on offer.
This week’s properties are in Midtown East, Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
This week’s properties are in Midtown East, Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
Jerrold Nadler and Hakeem Jeffries are two of seven Congress members who will help take the House Democrats’ case for removing President Trump to the Senate.
Seeking more space indoors and out, one renter with a $2,000 monthly budget explored whether it was worth leaving her South Bronx neighborhood. Here's where she wound up.
The proposal is the most far-reaching step taken in response to a Times investigation into exploitative practices in the industry.
The developer of Hudson Yards has backed off a plan that would have put a giant wall next to the High Line.
Toasted bagel? Roasted mayor.
A Harlem man was convicted of murder in the beating of his girlfriend’s son after a trial that shed light on the city’s failure to intervene.
Nicky Nodjoumi’s dreamy serial paintings; Albert Oehlen’s “mirror paintings”; Clarity Haynes portraits of breasts; Kim Tschang-Yeul’s abstract brand of Pop Art
The attorney general of the Virgin Islands says Mr. Epstein and his associates used a database to track victims as young as 11 years old.
Some thieves knew how to bypass the alarm system and steal the security tapes. Others snatched jewels and ran.
A homeless man is fighting his case by invoking New York’s “castle doctrine,” which gives people the right to defend their dwellings.
Did he change — or did America?
Gentrification looms over the “freakishness and fun-loving spirit” of the boardwalk.
A killing that has shocked a community in Queens has become a flash point in the national debate over immigration.
A new series of projects by international artists will be shown in five cities across the world.
These are the places that currently have four stars from The New York Times’s critics.
At $150, an omakase meal at the West Village sushi counter is a relative bargain. But the restaurant isn’t the four-star place it was in its early days.
The acclaimed omakase counter in the West Village has upgraded.
The Brandy Library will host a Valentine’s Day tasting of Japanese whiskeys.
Photography was Andy Warhol’s secret weapon — the architecture of his oeuvre. A new show highlights many of his rarely seen images.
The off-duty agent told the police that the animal had charged at him while he was walking in Windsor Terrace.
Floodwaters around Lincoln Center engulfed a garage under a luxury high-rise and destroyed the home of a group of film devotees.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
There's a chronic problem lurking below New York City's streets: a labyrinth of aging infrastructure.
“We can’t have movements that strip us of our fundamental rights,” said Donna Rotunno, who has faced criticism from feminists.
As bartender, manager and owner, he helped the East Village saloon survive neighborhood blight and change its ways by admitting women and banning smoking.
Alison Roman takes Russian pelmeni, and turns them into a creamy, meaty-without-meat bowl.
It took dozens of security officers, hundreds of cameras and a vow of secrecy for the storied jeweler to move to temporary quarters as it renovates its flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
Bar Pleiades in the Surrey Hotel offers a glass of wine with a plate of creamy wild mushroom fettuccine from Café Boulud.
The Queens representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded to know why all 46 alternatives to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s $2 billion AirTrain were ruled out so quickly.
Don’t buy into a campaign of fear on criminal justice reforms.