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Nothing has made me regret Atlantic Theater Company going dark for more than two months this year like “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” the absolute tonic of a show that reopens the company’s second stage. Written for and performed by the downtown wonder David Greenspan, who has collected a half-dozen Obie Awards over his … Read more

Jerome Dewald sat with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap in front of an appellate panel of New York State judges, ready to argue for a reversal of a lower court’s decision in his dispute with a former employer. The court had allowed Mr. Dewald, who is not a lawyer and … Read more

A man attacked four girls with a meat cleaver in a Brooklyn home on Sunday morning before he was shot by the police, who rushed to the house after one of the injured children called 911, the police said. All four girls, ages 8, 11, 13 and 16, have serious slash and stab wounds but … Read more

A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community. The soiled mats and other vandalism were discovered Thursday afternoon in a worship space … Read more

On Wednesday the judge, Dale Ho, gave Adams what he wanted, a dismissal of the charges. That was also what the Trump administration wanted, though it preferred that the charges be dismissed with the right to bring them back, which the judge refused. That — and Adams’s apparent chumminess with the president — made some … Read more

A prominent private schools group will not hold two decades-old conferences related to diversity this year, a notable move amid the federal government’s crackdown on equity and inclusion programs. The announcement from the National Association of Independent Schools was made on Thursday as the Trump administration released guidance threatening to pull federal funding from public … Read more

In recent months, New York City’s government has been rocked by corruption scandals at a pace not seen in nearly a century. Yet over the past few years, New York’s leaders have presided over a gradual weakening of the city’s No. 1 corruption-fighting agency, the Department of Investigation, records and interviews show. As caseloads have … Read more

Subway Luck Dear Diary: I was on the subway platform at Eighth Street and Broadway heading uptown. I was sitting on a bench near the front of the train. The train rolled in, and I got on. As the doors closed, I realized I had left my laptop on the bench. I pounded on the … Read more

Although The New York Times is known as the newspaper of record, many of its stories, vast swaths of printed history, are forever lost, existing, if at all, only in the minds of some particularly savvy readers. Before the internet, each day’s paper usually existed in archival form, preserved on microfilm or stored in one … Read more