Anthony Griffin was a popular battle rapper who turned toward religious rhetoric. The police say he slashed three people with a machete before they killed him.
The speaker, Julie Menin, privately agreed to not block Nadia Shihata’s appointment to lead the Department of Investigation as a sign of peace with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Stefan Pildes “siphoned” more than half of the money donated over five years for the outing, a raucous New York City bar crawl promoted as a charitable event, prosecutors said.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
A $1.5 billion project will transform the nation’s most-visited art museum, with renovations involving a quarter of the galleries and public spaces.
It would be the first walkout by the apartment building workers in more than three decades.
The health department began to require the guards in apartments with children under age 10 in 1976. They have had a remarkable impact.
Ms. Barrymore put her house on the market for nearly $5 million; Mr. Davidson wants almost $2.3 million for his. Also, a purchase from Pink.
An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has opposed raising some taxes, favored a “pied-à-terre” luxury tax because it largely targets the ultrawealthy who primarily live outside New York City.
The $1 billion project will run for about 23 miles under Raritan Bay in New Jersey and New York Harbor. Environmental groups oppose it.
The Cote and Coqodaq team plan for a three restaurants on three levels in Midtown, and Ferdinando’s Focacceria gains a second life from the Cafe Spaghetti owner.
People are cooking at home and cutting back on luxuries as inflation makes it harder to get by.
Although Monday wasn’t as springlike as expected, people still were drawn to the beach. By midweek, the city is likely to see summer temperatures.
Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to go on trial for a third time in six years on the same charge. An appeals court overturned his first conviction, and the second trial ended in a hung jury.
With tough new regulations looming in the president’s domestic policy bill, officials are coming up with plans to keep New Yorkers insured.
The Jewish Defense League had long been considered inactive. But an arrest in a plot to kill a Palestinian activist shed light on an apparent resurgence of far-right Zionism.
The protesters sat in the middle of Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and blocked traffic for about an hour.
With more people resuming their commutes post-pandemic, the fantasy of a well-designed, well-run workplace beckons.
Washington could hit 90 or higher. New York won’t be far behind. But it won’t last long.
The settlement ends a symbolic attack on the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement and deals a blow to the administration’s assault on diversity initiatives.
The mural, which surrounds a construction site, is part of an effort to decorate unsightly sidewalk sheds.
After starting a new job, Daniel Babin can afford to shop for a pricey vintage guitar and rethink living with 17 roommates.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to propose linking Grand Army Plaza with Prospect Park by closing a dangerous stretch of road between them.
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is opening a $43 million visitor’s center to attract the living by making it easier to navigate the rambling grounds.
At a rally on Sunday marking his first 100 days as the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani announced that it would open a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered his 100-day address at a concert venue in Queens. He highlighted his accomplishments and was joined by a not-so-surprising guest.
Surging inflation and rising prices have some people re-evaluating date nights and how much of their splurges they can share with friends.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will announce plans for a city-owned grocery store at La Marqueta, moving to deliver on a campaign pledge.
At Cue the Record gatherings, people treat iconic albums like literature, while still feeling the beat.
With its lurid details and eerily desolate crime scene, the Long Island serial killer case invited rampant speculation. The reality was more mundane, and much worse.
A bird of prey in Morningside Park, reflections on the urban bustle and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
At least two people were taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition after the episode on a train platform, officials said. The victims were expected to survive.
Mr. Cross, known for “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show,” isn’t afraid to say what should not be said.
Hinds Hall near Columbia University is a place to find Palestinian cuisine and to remember a 5-year-old killed in Gaza.
The mayor has embraced the decades-old concept of “sewer socialism,” hoping to improve New Yorkers’ lives by focusing on public services.
El crimen de una adolescente en el Bronx quedó sin resolver durante dos décadas, hasta que una maniobra ingeniosa de detectives produjo una pista decisiva.
Mr. Adams, the former mayor of New York City, has expressed fondness for Albania, visiting the country in his last weeks in office.
Possible presidential candidates are already courting a crucial Democratic constituency.
He helped lead what became known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, which showed that mental impairment is highly correlated with low socioeconomic status.
After defeating a Democratic fixture in a 1988 primary, he rose to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee, then was toppled himself in 2020, undone by an overheard comment.
The tributes to one of hip-hop’s founders were complicated by allegations of sexual abuse made against him in recent years.
The pop icon bought the home and onetime “Cribs” subject in 1999 for $9 million.
She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, and introduced new music by Philip Glass and others.
His wee-hours show “Night Talk” was a nationally syndicated stalwart, examining tough issues and spotlighting Black cultural and political stars.
NJ Transit riders will be barred from Penn Station in Manhattan before matches at MetLife Stadium.
Zohran Mamdani has accrued a long list of quick accomplishments as mayor of New York City, but he has also abandoned some key campaign promises.
Zohran Mamdani has pushed to deliver tangible improvements to New Yorkers’ lives, amid larger challenges like a blizzard and a deficit-laden budget.
Zohran Mamdani based his successful campaign for mayor of New York City on several central pledges. Here’s an early look on where those stand.
As Zohran Mamdani completes his first 100 days in office, we asked New York City residents what questions they have for their mayor.
A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career.
In 2025, a helicopter fell into the Hudson River, killing everyone on board. A new bill would require tourist helicopters to meet the same rigorous safety standards as commercial airplanes.
Three remixes on the perennial New York City favorite: the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich.
NJ Transit users will be barred from Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan for four hours before the start of each of the matches at MetLife Stadium.
A former jewelry-counter magnate, he served in Hungary under his friend President Trump, strengthening relations between the two countries as Orban tilted rightward.
Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder.
A state assemblyman’s bill would require the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to disclose when the bugs are found on buses or in the subway.
This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side and Astoria.
In a fiercely competitive market, knowing the seasonal inventory patterns could help your chances.
Although Mayor Zohran Mamdani often seems to defer to his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, he insisted that he had the final say in policing matters.
In February, Erik Duran became the first New York Police Department officer in a decade to be found guilty of killing a civilian while on duty.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on economic justice. Some budget watchdogs and business leaders want him to concentrate on economic development.
The lifestyle influencer behind the brand EyeSwoon hosted a housewarming at her new home in TriBeCa.
Workers could shut down America’s busiest passenger rail service beginning on May 16 if they do not reach a deal with transit officials.
Mr. Heuermann was a successful architectural consultant who lived on Long Island with his family. He was arrested in 2023.
The Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan offer more than 50 works, many from private collections. The show caps a surge of exhibitions on the great painter.
The Roundabout Theater Company stages shows in Studio 54, once a famous disco. It doesn’t have a permanent stage or an orchestra pit.
Facing a bleak job market and fears around artificial intelligence, young workers are lining up for a shot to develop skills and secure jobs in the trades.
We talked to voters in neighborhoods where Zohran Mamdani is revered, in areas where he is feared and in diverse parts of the city where opinions differ.
A new Marist poll found that about half of New Yorkers approved of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s job performance, while a larger share of respondents believed the city was moving in the right direction.
An indictment charged two men with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in the homemade bomb attack near Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence. It cited dashcam audio in which one said, “I want to start terror bro.”
An immersion in the wide-ranging work of a photographer who has died at 85.
His camera captured subjects as diverse as New York City during the Summer of Love in 1967, Siberia under Soviet rule and the Adirondacks in upstate New York.
Her minimalist gallery-like store on Park Avenue was a destination for generations of moneyed New Yorkers and helped change the way clothing is sold.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose Rebecca Jones Gaston, who oversaw child welfare efforts for the Biden administration, to lead the Administration for Children’s Services.
The daiquiri is the star at Echo Lake, Vietnamese flavors are showcased at After Eden and more restaurant news.
The city wants to replace run-down buildings in four Manhattan housing developments with new towers. Some residents are skeptical.
Marcel Duchamp changed the face of culture in the 20th century, and beyond, with an unconventional sculpture that challenged how we think of art.
A shelter for delivery workers was proposed years ago. Then Mayor Zohran Mamdani decided that it needed to be finished within his first 100 days in office.
The mayor has observed the Passover holiday in several ways in recent days, including a left-wing event on Monday. He planned to hold a Seder for city workers in the evening at Gracie Mansion.
Scientists who recorded whale songs learned that the New York Bight, at the entrance to the harbor, attracts sei whales. Ships pose a risk to them.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been taking steps to try to strengthen his ties with Black voters, is issuing two reports that focus on the ways nonwhite New Yorkers are being left behind.
The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to leave his mark in the face of gentrification, which he says has diluted Harlem’s political power.
Andrew Hevesi, a lifelong Democrat and New York State assemblyman from Queens, was told his voter registration had been changed without his knowledge. He has a culprit in mind.
April showers brought silk flowers on Sunday as New Yorkers promenaded along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival.
From the gas pump to the auto show, drivers are talking about electric vehicles.
Learning a memory trick at a bus stop, a lost neighborhood recalled and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
At Ouest, on the Upper West Side, and other Manhattan restaurants, he served robust dishes in a style he called “haute cuisine with the grandma gene.”
The city thinks four developments in Chelsea are too run-down to be saved, and wants to rebuild them, adding mixed-income housing. Some residents are opposed.
A Black woman is pushing for changes in the hair industry after claiming in a lawsuit that she and her 7-year-old were turned away from an Ulta Beauty salon in Manhattan because of their hair texture.
Two men have been arrested in connection to a shooting on Wednesday that killed an infant. One was charged with murder, attempted murder and assault.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker, Julie Menin, both live on the Upper East Side. They are sparring over different approaches to balancing a $5.4 billion deficit.
Eleven preapproved architectural plans could speed up construction and help provide a solution to the housing crisis.
When an actress in Shawn’s play “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” got Covid, he took on the role.
Eliza Shapiro, who reports on New York City’s affordability crisis, asked hundreds of residents to get candid about their finances.
Why wait in line when you can enjoy equally great food somewhere else?
This week’s properties are a studio in Murray Hill, and one bedroom apartments in Midtown and Carroll Gardens.
Get ready for the return of wearables and a new stage in the fashion-tech relationship.
The U.S. Park Police put up a fence that a parks advocate says blocks the view of the Statue of Liberty. The agency says it’s needed for security.
The Frick gathers 25 works by the painter Thomas Gainsborough, a visual compendium of the social biggies in British society.
Sooraj Cherukat, who performs as Hanumankind, became a breakout artist in 2024. What comes next?
In more than 10 states, laboratories or doctors must notify the state health authorities of each positive test for a marker of the syndrome.
While the jury found Guy Rivera guilty in the death of Detective Jonathan Diller in 2024, they acquitted him of first-degree murder, the most serious charge he faced.
People flocked to Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, where the quirky American woodcocks had made a pit stop on their migration north. The birds are known for their bopping and shimmying.
She sang lead for influential all-female bands, including Malaria!, and toured in the U.S. and elsewhere with groups like the Birthday Party and New Order.
American woodcocks, also known as timberdoodles, are bopping and shimmying through the park, charming visitors during a pit stop on their northerly migration.
U.S. prosecutors charged that Zhan Petrosyants, known as Johnny, submitted millions of dollars in false health care claims. He and his twin brother are close associates of Mr. Adams.
The baby was struck by a stray bullet on Wednesday afternoon in the Williamsburg neighborhood, the police said.
There are plenty of places across the city to see cherry trees in bloom this year.
The Manhattan townhouse where Barbara Jakobson hosted art world luminaries for decades is for sale for $9.8 million.
Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega in “The Adding Machine,” plus Jane Fonda in an eco-musical and Cecily Strong and Corey Stoll as a couple on their first date.
At the Museum of Modern Art through April 7, audiences can enter and exit a screening of the 6½-hour film, which Jacobs began in the 1950s.
Business improvement districts in the city are eager to capitalize on the huge sports event, which starts in June. But they’re worried about red tape.
This month brings Barry Manilow and Martha Graham, Earth Day and Easter, as well as a pickle tour and a little night music.
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers could be in and out of court in Manhattan through the end of the year. A judge could decide as early as Wednesday on whether to delay his federal case.
In 1999, a 13-year-old girl was found dead in the Bronx. Then the trail went cold for 20 years, until an ingenious ploy by detectives produced a vital clue to her killer.
Lynch Fragments, a series of abstract steel sculptures he created starting in 1963, evoked the long, devastating history of violence against Black Americans.
The team from King and Jupiter are serving up pork scratchings, crab with buttered crumpets and sticky ginger pudding.
The arrests were part of an investigation that is also examining the conduct of a city councilwoman, her sister and the Brooklyn Democratic leader’s husband.
The mayor spoke at Michael Dorf’s annual Passover celebration, taking hecklers and a comic’s last-minute cancellation in stride.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is lifting the ban on governmental use of the social media app, one of a handful that the mayor used to amplify his campaign messaging.
A free preschool center in one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.
Since the Iran conflict began on Feb. 28, gas prices across the United States have increased about 35 percent. They are now above $4 a gallon, and drivers are wincing.
The drawings, now on display at Manhattan University, were found in a house in Westchester County.
The Hollywood couple’s three-bedroom apartment is on the 14th floor of 212 Fifth Avenue, where Jeff Bezos also owns several units.
Feldman, born a century ago this year, wrote quietly sensual and humanist works in an age of structural rigor.
In these homes — built as far back as 1878 and as recently as 2021 — sunken living rooms appear in many styles.
Central Park is car-free, and so is Prospect Park. What about the rest?
Prosecutors on Monday said Bairon Hernandez pushed Richard Williams, who later died, onto the tracks. They said the attack was the second by Mr. Hernandez at the station that day.
Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani he would “pursue every avenue” to shut the troubled facility as soon as possible.
An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
Luna Lauren Vélez, quien interpretó a la capitana Maria LaGuerta en el drama sobre un asesino en serie, ahora produce sus propios proyectos (con mucha menos sangre).
Fewer international tourists are visiting, and fewer immigrants are moving here. The city needs both groups, experts say.
Matthew Kaal keeps a detailed budget to plan for the future and to carefully splurge on the present.
Amid a fast-fashion landscape in which so much can be easily produced, some consumers long for something special — merchandise personalized by human hands.
Nicole Daedone, the former leader of OneTaste, is set to be sentenced after being convicted of forced labor conspiracy last year. But she is still finding ways to spread her message from behind bars.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his former Republican opponent recorded a skit on cat adoption for the Inner Circle, an annual press corps roast. Some politicians weren’t laughing.
Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking at a rally at Lehman College, lent his support to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s effort to raise taxes on millionaires. The mayor was not present.
How a cascade of seemingly minor events led to the worst runway disaster at LaGuardia Airport in decades.
Sharing a cab with the catch of the day, where two friends met and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
After a stretch of cold weather, the Culture of Bathe-ing Festival’s waterfront gathering brought out the swimsuits and a different kind of chill.
Luna Lauren Vélez, who played Capt. Maria LaGuerta on the serial killer drama, is making her own projects now (with much less blood).
Days after the disaster on a LaGuardia runway, two veterans of a specialized rescue unit have been released from the hospital.
After a seven-year drought, including pandemic-related delays, the ferry service is bringing beer back to New York Harbor. It feels like a return to normal, regulars say.
Está previsto que el sábado se celebren miles de manifestaciones contra el gobierno de Trump en ciudades y pueblos de todo el país.
Reaction to President Trump’s signature on the dollar. Also: Innocent lives lost in Iran; Democrats’ brand; young job seekers; subway announcements; calling all teenagers.
There’s a real advantage to being young and governing: being able to work long hours. But there are potential tradeoffs to Mamdani's all-in management style.
Thousands of demonstrations against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place in cities and towns across the country on Saturday.