Jessica S. Tisch, the billionaire heiress who is commissioner of the New York Police Department, had just walked into the dining hall on one of her first days at Harvard when she was accosted with an unmannerly question: How much did she weigh? She was taken aback, but it turned out that the men’s lightweight … Read more
He failed to qualify for matching state campaign funds and fell short of the threshold to participate in two upcoming debates as he runs for governor of New Jersey. His spokesman works for a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and he has no paid campaign manager. But Sean Spiller has something the other five Democrats … Read more
The federal immigration authorities will be allowed to open office space at the Rikers Island jail complex for criminal investigations, according to an executive order issued on Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams’s administration. The order, issued by First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, came nearly two months after Mr. Adams announced that he would allow Immigration … Read more
In East Harlem, a six-month gang war led to gunfire in playgrounds, buildings, courtyards and crowded streets, accounting for half the shootings in a single police precinct, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. The feud between the gangs, known as Wuski and LA World, resulted in 21 shootings, according to Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district … Read more
“This is huge,” said Danny Pearlstein, a spokesman for Riders Alliance, a transit advocacy group that is named in the lawsuit as a supporter of the toll. “The longer this thing stays in effect, the happier people are going to be with it,” he added, noting that more residents were coming around to the benefits … Read more
William Finn, a witty, cerebral and psychologically perceptive musical theater writer who won two Tony Awards for “Falsettos” and had an enduringly popular hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” died on Monday in Bennington, Vt. He was 73. His longtime partner, Arthur Salvadore, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was … Read more
New York State regulators are investigating some of America’s biggest cannabis companies after receiving complaints that they have been selling marijuana to New York dispensaries that comes from unauthorized sources or is grown out of state, an illegal practice that has been called the industry’s open secret. Since February, the Office of Cannabis Management, which … Read more
It is unclear how the federal government might respond. Will mass federal layoffs affect classrooms? The Education Department’s work force is about half the size it was on Jan. 19. Mass layoffs gutted units that focus on education research, data collection and civil rights investigations. The entire investigative staffs of several regional branches of the … Read more
Film at Lincoln Center, the nonprofit organization that programs the New York Film Festival, has named the British movie executive Daniel Battsek its next president. From 2016 until early 2024, Battsek, 66, was chairman of the British production company Film4, overseeing the financing of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) and “The Banshees of Inisherin” … Read more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has terminated $188 million in grants to New York City to care for migrants, arguing that the money is being used to support illegal immigration. The decision, announced in a letter sent to the city on April 1, comes nearly two months after FEMA removed $80 million from the city’s … Read more