More than 2,000 state prison officers who failed to return to work after three weeks of wildcat strikes have been fired and will be barred from future law enforcement and other civil service jobs in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday. The affected officers, unlike 5,000 of their striking colleagues, spurned a Monday … Read more
Selma Miriam and Noel Furie were unhappy housewives, as they put it, when they met at a gathering of the National Organization for Women in Connecticut in 1972. Soon after, they divorced their husbands, came out as lesbians and set about creating a place for women to congregate. Ms. Miriam was a talented and adventurous … Read more
Emergency workers in Waterbury, Conn., who responded to a house fire last month said they discovered a shocking scene: After they rescued a woman, they discovered her emaciated adult stepson, who said he had started the fire in a desperate bid to break free of the tiny room where she had imprisoned him for two … Read more
new video loaded: Protesters Surround Trump’s Border Czar on Khalil Detainment transcript Back transcript Protesters Surround Trump’s Border Czar on Khalil Detainment Protesters yelled at Tom Homan that Mahmoud Khalil’s detainment by the Trump administration undermined the First Amendment, during a demonstration at the New York State Capitol. “No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome … Read more
A judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the constitutional issues at play in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and permanent legal resident who was arrested over the weekend and taken to a Louisiana detention center. The judge, Jesse Furman, has ordered the government not to remove Mr. Khalil from … Read more
The conductor Gustavo Dudamel has premiered dozens of pieces in his career. But the score that he was giddily studying on a recent afternoon at Lincoln Center was different: a nearly 125-year-old piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel that had only recently surfaced in a Paris library. “Imagine more than 100 years later discovering … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll take a look at the brouhaha over what to call a New York strip steak. We’ll also talk about a plan to fix Penn Station that calls for moving Madison Square Garden across the street. Maybe a rose by any other name really would smell as sweet. But Todd Shapiro … Read more
The Ordinary New Yorkers Who Became Pandemic Heroes
As a teenager in Queens, Mike Repole worshiped the great St. John’s University basketball teams of the 1980s, whose stars often came from the gyms and playgrounds of New York City. The team’s tough, defensive brand of championship ball helped Repole, the son of an immigrant waiter and a seamstress, identify with the school. As … Read more
The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant — the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns — reflects a bygone era of the West Village in Manhattan, where the establishment was founded almost a century ago. But alongside those period details, there is one dissonant design element that evokes a far more … Read more