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President Trump has aggressively intervened in New York City affairs. He shocked Columbia University by stripping away government grants and contracts and demanding an overhaul of its admissions and disciplinary rules. His administration threatened to cut off funding to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unless it provided a long list of statistics on subway crime. And … Read more

Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic and a senior writer for the Culture section of The Times, where he has been on staff since 1998. Produced by Maridelis Morales Rosado and Josephine Sedgwick. Design and development by Leo Dominguez and Gabriel Gianordoli. Images: The Frick Collection (All Artworks); The Frick Collection/Frick Art Research Library … Read more

The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a … Read more

Two students who were manipulated into sending naked photographs to Winston Nguyen, a teacher at Saint Ann’s School, expressed their horror, humiliation and enduring pain in letters read aloud at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. “You begged for sexually explicit images of me to the point where I felt trapped,” one victim wrote, in a … Read more

Mr. Adams said at a news conference on Monday that he was not worried. “Everyone is catching up to me,” he said. “I started raising early.” The mayor actually received $36,000 in contributions, but he ended up netting only $19,000 after adjustments and $21,000 in refunds, including $3,700 to Brock Pierce, a cryptocurrency investor who … Read more

The Manhattan art adviser Lisa Schiff, who admitted to stealing millions of dollars clients gave her to buy art, but which she instead burned through to fund her life of luxury, was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken sentenced Ms. Schiff, 55, to … Read more

New Yorkers have long prided themselves on knowing how to successfully swipe their MetroCards on the first pass while tourists fumbled their way through the turnstiles. In their heyday, the yellow cards littered the floors of subway stations and piled up in riders’ wallets. Now, the MetroCard is finally going the way of the subway … Read more

Ask a New Orleanian which of the city’s neighborhoods has changed the most over the past 10 years and they’re likely to say Bywater Historic District, a roughly 120-block neighborhood running alongside the Mississippi River. Although only a 15 minute walk from the bacchanalia of Bourbon Street, Bywater feels like a calm retreat, where you … Read more

Just a few wisps of Masih Alinejad’s hair were visible as she walked in Iran with her brother one day over a decade ago. That was enough for the morality police. “They beat up my brother in front of me,” Ms. Alinejad, an Iranian-born dissident, testified in Manhattan this week. For over a week, jurors … Read more

The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island’s north shore, re-elected its mayor on Tuesday. For the normally placid small town, the election capped eight turbulent days and seemingly ended a quixotic write-in campaign by a brash snack-food mogul. But elections these days don’t always end when they’re over. And so even before the … Read more