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Jean Rice, who for decades scratched out a living, nickel by nickel, picking up deposit cans in New York while becoming a well-respected advocate for the homeless, died on March 12 in Queens. He was 85. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was heart disease, said Lillie Mae John, his cousin. Since 2020, … Read more

Being the front-runner in a race for mayor of New York City often comes with exceptional scrutiny. But few have presented their opponents with quite as many targets as former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. In the weeks since Mr. Cuomo joined a crowded Democratic primary field and immediately catapulted to its front, a group of … Read more

The Museum of Modern Art’s next director will be Christophe Cherix, who was appointed chief curator of drawings and prints at the New York museum in 2013. He takes over after the three-decade tenure of Glenn Lowry. Cherix’s appointment was announced to the museum’s staff on Friday in a letter written by the museum’s chair, … Read more

Just Stop Oil, the British environmental activist group known for attention-grabbing protests — including throwing tomato soup at famous artworks and spraying orange powder on Stonehenge — said it was ending such actions after a final protest in London next month. The group said on Thursday that it had achieved its primary goal of preventing … Read more

Scott Rudin, the powerful producer who was exiled from Broadway and Hollywood four years ago after allegations of bullying led to widespread denunciations and even protesters in the streets, has been quietly preparing to return to show business. After what he called “a decent amount of therapy,” apologies to many people and a period of … Read more

Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at a tiny sign of spring in the Hudson River. We’ll also get details on why the Trump administration’s budget-cutting may force a do-over of the state budget. In the spring, Tina Walsh’s fancy lightly turns to something that’s neither romantic nor particularly poetic: phytoplankton in the Hudson … Read more

On the Lower East Side of Manhattan this month, two men spray-painted a red swastika on a parked Tesla Cybertruck. In the borough’s meatpacking district, six people sat on the floor of a Tesla showroom and refused to leave, chanting “Elon Musk is unelected, democracy must be protected” before being arrested. In Albany, lawmakers called … Read more

Earlier this year, a federal judge in Brooklyn dismissed Daniel Arbeeny’s suit on a jurisdictional technicality. But in its motion to dismiss the case, the Cuomo camp pointed out that the Cobble Hill facility did not take a Covid-positive admission until April 30, three weeks after Norman Arbeeny’s discharge and that later, at home, he … Read more

A 16-year-old has been charged with several hate crimes in a gang attack on a Black teenager at a subway station this week, the police said. The attack happened at 8 a.m. Monday at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn, according to the police. The victim, 16, who has not been identified, was on … Read more