On the day after President Trump’s inauguration, Mayor Eric Adams’s deputy mayor for communications assembled officials from across city government to let them know that change was coming. The deputy mayor, Fabien Levy, instructed agencies to highlight their work in a positive way, but signaled that they should not criticize Mr. Trump’s policies, according to … Read more
Columbia University agreed on Friday to overhaul its protest policies, security practices and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which has refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funds without major changes. The agreement, which stunned and dismayed many members of the faculty, could signal a new stage … Read more
Nearly all the men and women running to be New York City’s next mayor came together on Sunday to urge voters not to support the candidates’ shared opponent, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. The group — which ranged in ideology from Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, to Curtis Sliwa, a Republican — gathered to mark … Read more
Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.” That drama dates back 25 years. Today, these two New York City institutions — the billionaire … Read more
It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its Oscar-nominated lead man, Paul Mescal, has people clamoring for tickets to BAM’s production this month. The excitement recalls a period when the performing arts center consistently drew crowds to … Read more
Matthew Mahrer as a boy wrote a 25-page book about his grandfather’s experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi internment camp. Christopher Brown did favors for the Orthodox rabbi across the street, who needed someone to turn on electrical devices during the Sabbath or Jewish holidays. In November 2022, they were both in free fall. … Read more
Tortoiseshell Comb Dear Diary: I was on a bus going up Madison Avenue on a very slow weekday afternoon. We were averaging about a block per red light, and I had nothing to do but study the other passengers. One thing that caught my eye was the back of the head of a woman sitting … Read more
In the crowded race for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has become a magnet for attention, ascending in the polls and raising money through a mix of social media savvy and a plain-spoken, everyman approach. He has paid house visits to some of his thousands of small donors and taken a New Year’s … Read more
Fire crews in New Jersey were working overnight to contain a wildfire that was reported in a state park on Saturday and quickly grew to 1,000 acres, officials said. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service reported the blaze, known as the California Branch Wildfire, in Wharton State Forest on Saturday afternoon. Two campgrounds were evacuated, … Read more
The coach of a high school women’s basketball team from a community in New York’s Adirondacks was fired after he pulled a player’s ponytail at the end of a state championship game on Friday, the school district confirmed. Videos on social media and local television news show an older man yanking a distraught player’s hair, … Read more