The subway’s new leader, Andy Byford, released a plan on Wednesday to save the subway, but politics could get in the way.
Andy Byford proposes to do quickly over the next five to 10 years what was originally expected to take a half-century.
Wednesday: A proposed ban, New York’s big comeback, and an anniversary for the public library.
The new proposal to overhaul the New York City subway would affect riders on every line in the system over the next decade. Here’s how it would affect your commute.
With the development of Brooklyn Bridge Park and new luxury housing, Brooklyn Heights is drawing international tourists and ever-more-affluent buyers.
A 1933 Tudor revival home in Beaverton, Ore.; a hillside condominium in Sea Ranch, Calif.; and a one-bedroom co-op in New York City.
A 1933 Tudor revival home in Beaverton, a hillside condominium in Sea Ranch and a one-bedroom co-op in Manhattan near Central Park.
The subway’s new leader, Andy Byford, is expected to announce the expensive modernization plan on Wednesday to quickly upgrade the signal system.
A business partner of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and is said to be working with law enforcement.
With the development of Brooklyn Bridge Park and new luxury housing, Brooklyn Heights is drawing international tourists and ever-more-affluent buyers.
Jeremy’s Ale House was a South Street Seaport pioneer in the 1980s, when the area was desolate. In 2018, the bar still seems to be where the party is.
Annoyed with other people’s behavior, pets, and the way they look on the subway? Train now for your certificate to set everyone straight.
Baby pigeons take only a month to become fully developed and leave the nest, which is usually hidden and high up on a window ledge or rooftop.
The New York Times sat down with Philip Roth in 2008 to talk about his life and accomplishments.
This initial, mind-frisking comedy from Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival is a reminder of the particular pleasures of warm-weather goofiness.
The mass overdoses led to at least 15 arrests as the police hunt for the source of the toxic synthetic marijuana.
Under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive order, an independent monitor must be chosen by June 1 to oversee repairs at New York City housing developments.
Whoever was honking the car horn was trying to tell him something.
A judge sentenced Daniel St. Hubert to 50 years to life in prison, bringing an end to a case that shocked New York City in 2014.
Aaron Schlossberg, who insulted Spanish-speaking workers at a New York restaurant, apologized on social media. One lawmaker said: “Too little too late.”
Despite some opposition to one district’s middle-school integration plan, there is a growing sense in the city that it is time to act on segregation.
The city broke up big failing schools to improve academics, but at the small schools that replaced them, fielding a robust music program is a challenge.
Tuesday: Grilling rules, upcoming TimesTalks, and a floating glassblowing studio.
While the sushi scene in New York caters to robber barons, this Midtown restaurant serves insolently fresh fish at reasonable prices.
The neighborhood may be the oldest part of New York, but it feels like the newest with the arrival of hotels, residential and office towers, restaurants and nightclubs that cater to millennials.
A new Japanese restaurant sets itself apart with wild and farmed seafood from Japan.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
Rachel Pharn, 26, was sideswiped by a pickup truck in the October attack on a Manhattan bicycle path that left eight people dead and 11 others injured.
A train switches onto a different line. Or maybe not.
While it might be tempting to proclaim that the borough is back, last weekend’s literary celebration proved it never really left.
The chef sold the restaurant to his partners in the restaurant, who plan to keep it open.
Our/Vodka’s latest urban distillery opens this week in Chelsea.
Monday: Mapping the city’s smells, kicking off pop music festival season, and remembering Tom Wolfe.
What to see, where to eat and how to get cheap tickets — everything you need to navigate Broadway.
Supervised injection sites for heroin users have prevented overdose deaths in Canada. But is New York City ready for the scenes that come with them?
Even as his landlord tears down the East Harlem building he lives in, Ray Tirado has stayed put in his apartment. “Harassment by construction” is a critical part of how gentrification takes hold in neighborhoods like this, experts say.
An exchange in an elevator.
A retired teacher turned his Manhattan apartment into a shrine to his school years. Now he’s expanding his collection citywide, to showcase his love for all things vintage public schools.
Investigators were trying to determine the source of a drug that caused the victims to faint and vomit.
The city’s housing system can be complicated to navigate. Here’s a quick primer on what your rights are and how to exercise them.
Affordable housing is vanishing as landlords exploit a broken system, pushing out rent-regulated tenants and catapulting apartments into the free market.
After pleading guilty to tax fraud, Mr. Grimm gave up his seat in 2014. Now he’s running to reclaim his Staten Island House seat.
Readers stress the importance of music and the arts in public schools.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region
Matthew Emanuel returned the cash and jewels after he did some sleuthing that linked the treasure to a $52,000 robbery and the “Ninja Burglar.”
Yes, though it doesn’t always look or feel that way.
The state has sold itself as a standard-bearer of progressive virtue. So why do its elected officials keep getting in trouble for sexual misconduct and corruption?
Friday: Essential items to stash in your bag, weekend events, and a royal wedding.
The woman, Stephanie Nicolai, had been enmeshed in a custody dispute over the child found dead at her side: her 7-year-old son, Vincent.
The apartment, on the eighth and ninth floors of 655 Park Avenue, has five bedrooms and a 3,000-square foot terrace.
Items that every New Yorker should considering stashing in their bag, as recommended by your fellow New Yorkers.
The apartment, on the eighth and ninth floors of 655 Park Avenue, has five bedrooms and a 3,000-square foot terrace.
Midtown residents mount a shameful battle against a city homeless shelter.
The garden behind David Scalza’s apartment in Hell’s Kitchen was rife with drugs and disorder. So he filled it with art and plants.
The resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, spends most of her day at Tanoreen, her restaurant, cooking and chatting up customers.
After an outcry over its rejection of subway advertisements from a sex toy company, the M.T.A. says it will work with the company to permit its ads.
Roughly one dollar of every six collected by New York City in local taxes goes to pension funds, whose value and influence grow each year.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said it cannot bring additional charges against the driver because state law does not recognize a fetus as a person.
Would she fall prey to the same hustle a third time?
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera 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 dance performances 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 film series and special screenings.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The family’s company is in advanced talks with Brookfield Asset Management, whose real estate arm has ties to Qatar, for a stake in 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown.
Thursday: Competing in the Senior Games, drizzly weather, and a festival for a poet.
Among the pho and banh mi at this Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, restaurant is hu tieu, the first dish that the chef Ly Nguyen made for the man who would become her husband.
An employee at the store was charged with assaulting a man accused of shoplifting Prada shoes. The guard was not currently registered to work security in New York.
From SZA in New York to Post Malone in Chicago, concerts across the country you don’t want to miss this season.
A Colorado amphitheater, a Manhattan staircase and a skating rink on Martha’s Vineyard — these are just a few of places to see incredible performances this season.
An image consultant priced out of Harlem switches his search to the South Bronx.
A company hired to help build Steinway Tower is accused of underpaying its workers, many of them immigrants, by $1.7 million over three years.
In a rant caught on video in a Manhattan cafe, a man berated a manager for workers’ language, but even immigration officials distanced themselves from him.
Sometimes comfort comes when you least expect it.
In visits to two Orthodox schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered her strongest comments to date in support of public funding for religious schools.
Stocking the new shark exhibit at the New York Aquarium involves construction gear, canvas slings and considerable hands-on wrangling.
“The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock,” David Lang’s latest large-scale work, will feature 1,000 performers from around New York City.
Wednesday: The history of handball, a commute update after last night’s mess, and New York’s first bikes.
The literary event and a new general interest bookstore mark a revival in the borough.
A Brooklyn theater company is staging the Arthur Miller play on the waterfront of working-class Red Hook.
Michael Avenatti has waged a relentless campaign against Michael D. Cohen and his lawyers, who are pushing back.
A photo essay of the Senior Games held recently on Staten Island and in Brooklyn.
The thoroughfare most synonymous with fake designer goods is in the midst of a high-fashion makeover.
Ophelia, a rooftop bar with sweeping views of Midtown, was originally a solarium where single women living in the Panhellenic Tower would greet “men callers.”
At least two people were killed by falling trees — one in the Hudson Valley, the other in Danbury, Conn. — as thunderstorms passed through the area on Tuesday.
A city pension official’s midnight crash in a city-owned car shines a light on a system ripe for millions of dollars in waste and abuse.
One woman asks another for help at an intersection.
A Brooklyn social worker and civic leader who was colorblind to race, she could deliver votes and was courted by political candidates.
Bill de Blasio must do what should have been done years ago: fire Daniel Pantaleo.
New York and other American cities should look to Europe for ideas about solving the urban traffic and safety crisis.
The changes would represent a striking shift in drug enforcement and are likely to create a patchwork of prosecution policies across the five boroughs.
It’s been nearly four years since Eric Garner was killed by a New York City police officer. His mother, Gwen Carr, is still waiting for that officer to be held accountable.
Tuesday: Advice on getting the most out of confined living space, stormy weather, and a concert in Grand Central.
At Simon & the Whale, the restaurateur Gabriel Stulman conjures the qualities that draw people to his smaller West Village spots.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
Officials said that Cyrus Vance Jr. in Manhattan and Eric Gonzalez in Brooklyn are considering pursuing fewer low-level cases of a law enforced disproportionately among minorities.
There are significant racial disparities in who is arrested on low-level marijuana charges around the city.
German’s Soup offers family-style creole food in a Guyanese neighborhood.
A reunion at a tribute to Jerome Robbins.
Ms. Ortega, 55, will have no chance of parole after being sentenced for stabbing Leo Krim, 2, and his sister, Lucia, 6, to death in their Upper West Side home.
A family gathers around a kitchen table on Staten Island for a tutorial on griot, black rice and the joys of communal cooking.
Monday: A former manager remembers Old Blue Eyes; Pussy Riot and Marina Abramovic in discussion; and looking for New York pen pals.
At Simon & the Whale, a new restaurant in the Freehand hotel, whale is not on the menu and Simon is a 6 year old boy.
Why is it that white people largely don’t get arrested for smoking weed, while black and Hispanic people do? Times reporters put a police official’s explanation to the test.
Trouble on the shuttle to Grand Central
The piece by Mr. Fischer, a Swiss-born artist, is titled “Things.” It will be unveiled Tuesday in an old bank building on Fifth Avenue.
After the new schools chancellor reviewed the suits, Howard Kwait was transferred to an office position where he won’t be “permitted to manage other employees.”
Riders call for regulation of Uber and its kin and bemoan the state of New York City’s taxis. A cabby describes his predicament.
New York’s Special Victims Division hasn’t gotten far in its plea for a bigger staff.
Authorities said that the president of a security force for the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn sexually abused a 15-year-old girl last year.
City Council officials say the city should fund a plan to give discounted MetroCards to poor New Yorkers. The mayor says the money should come from a millionaire’s tax.
We want to hear from New York City public school families and educators. You must be at least 13 to participate.
The New York Times is looking for people who have recently lost a partner or spouse and lives in New York City for a future article.
Friday: A moving start to Wildflower Week, your weekend lineup, and a call for lovers.
Lotto tickets, egg on a roll, cold beer in summer and a little bit of home.
The home of a former ambassador on the Upper East Side goes on the market for $8.9 million.
The home of John L. Loeb Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, goes on the market for $8.9 million.
On a beer-splotched wall of a Midtown sports bar, a forgotten relic from the heyday of cartooning, featuring Beetle Bailey, Fred Flintsone and some jokers from Mad magazine. With cameos by James Thurber, Ernest Hemingway and Marilyn Monroe.
New Yorkers are hard to impress, but some are such big fans of their apartment buildings that they act as volunteer cheerleaders.
During the day, Mr. Temple gets a little loud at his kids’ soccer games. Later, he’ll often meet “writer friends” for drinks at the No. 7 restaurant near his home in Fort Greene.
The city hasn’t outlawed it, but many restaurants and cafes — concerned about the environment — are replacing it with paper, metal or no straw at all.
The man, who is thought to have hacked thousands of sites around the world, was arrested in California and could face up to 21 years in prison.
Extreme heat at Frieze New York caused discomfort. Now, the fair is promising galleries compensation for their trouble, but won’t get specific yet.
Going to a sold-out performance and hoping for a miracle.
Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
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.
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 new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
A shelter resident is fighting the city’s efforts to move her from one facility to another, and a council member wants the city to explain such transfers.
Thursday: Words of wisdom from inspiring New Yorkers, FuerzaFest, and our presidential scholars.
The New York Times is looking for adventurous couples who are willing to be photographed kissing for an ambitious project that will take place on Saturday, May 19.
Richard Rogers, an architect for Paris’s Centre Pompidou, designs his first apartment building in the U.S. on a kite-shaped piece of land downtown.
This week’s properties are in Midtown, the Financial District and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
This week’s properties are in Midtown, the Financial District and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
A young buyer went looking for a no-frills apartment.
It’s time to shine a light on Seasonal Realty Disorder: the need to overlook fatal flaws in a cute summer house.
The Times began publishing letters to the editor in 1851. Some writers have made it to the page more than others.
An older subway rider impresses a younger one with a display of dexterity.
Wednesday: Catching up on the attorney general’s resignation, painting in the Elizabeth Street Garden, and collecting American flags.
Jeremy Safran was found beaten to death in the basement of his house, a bloody hammer nearby. The police arrested a man hiding in a closet.
The 300-square-foot coffee shop, which opened in Chelsea in 2011 in an old shoe store, usually has long lines, packed tables and congenial customers.
Changes to the signal system and new safety rules have increased delays, an issue that won’t be easy for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fix.
Beyoncercise is a class in Midtown that teaches the singer’s most popular music video moves in a party-like atmosphere.