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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Jason Zinoman, who has been the comedy columnist for The New York Times since 2011, stumbled into his role by accident. “It was just dumb luck,” said Zinoman, then a freelance theater critic for The … Read more
Nearly two years after New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, vowed to fast-track the long-overdue redesign of Pennsylvania Station, little has changed for the Manhattan transit hub that she once called a “hellhole.” Two serious renovation proposals — one from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the other from a private developer — have both been stalled for … Read more
The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who gained prominence amid that campus’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations has divided the American Jewish community, which finds itself trying to reconcile a longstanding focus on Jewish safety and support for Israel with a historical commitment to civil liberties. Immigration authorities’ detention of the activist, Mahmoud Khalil, a … Read more
A school bus with at least 30 passengers on board overturned on the Garden State Parkway near Montvale, N.J., on Monday evening, injuring 13 people, the authorities said. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the bus overturned on the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway north of Exit 171 at around 7:40 … Read more
The last of the wind-driven wildfires that had stretched hundreds of acres across eastern Long Island, prompting the New York governor to declare a state of emergency, was extinguished by Sunday morning, according to local and state officials. The fire, in the Westhampton area, was the largest of four that broke out on Saturday afternoon. … Read more
The police on Monday were searching for a man and a woman connected to the death of a 3-year-old boy abandoned at a hospital in Brooklyn, according to an internal police report. Around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, the 24-year-old woman, who is believed to be the child’s mother, and her 38-year-old boyfriend took the boy … Read more
The activist Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian student movement at Columbia University, has been transferred to Louisiana after federal immigration officials arrested him over the weekend, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website. Mr. Khalil is being held at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, La. His lawyer, … Read more
Dance has long been a precarious industry in New York. It can be difficult for dance troupes to find rehearsal and performance space in one of the world’s most expensive markets, and dancers often struggle to make a living. Lincoln Center is hoping to help change that. The center announced on Monday that it had … Read more
Jean Smart, a veteran stage and screen actress whose oft-praised comedic chops reached new audiences via the Max series “Hacks,” plans to return to Broadway this spring and summer in a one-woman show. Smart will star in “Call Me Izzy,” a dark comedy about a rural Louisiana woman. The play, which has not been previously … Read more
The idea to kill Ms. Alinejad in Brooklyn originated soon after the kidnapping plot fell apart, according to prosecutors, and was initiated by a network in Iran led by Ruhollah Bazghandi, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards. He and three other Iranian men who are not in U.S. custody have been charged in Manhattan … Read more