Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at a push by street vendors to change city permitting regulations that they say keep them from operating legally. We’ll also get details on a move by the City Council speaker in advance of a potential campaign against Mayor Eric Adams. Thousands of street vendors in New York … Read more
As she fought a losing battle with her superiors over their effort to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan put forward a tantalizing piece of information about the case. The prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, wrote in a letter to the U.S. attorney general earlier this … Read more
Last week, 60 or so mostly wealthy Democrats gathered uptown in a Fifth Avenue apartment, chicly done in modernist white, to hear what Andrew Cuomo had to say about New York City, and the prospect, wished for by so many who had come, that he would be their next mayor. Front of mind was the … Read more
New York state authorities and a union representing corrections officers have reached a deal to end the most widespread strikes in the state’s prisons in more than four decades, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday. It was unclear how the union would enforce the agreement, as it did not authorize the stoppage. The striking officers also … Read more
In a speech this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, clearly annoyed by import tariffs levied by President Trump and his threats of making Canada “the 51st state,” suggested that Canadians might act individually to respond to the affronts. “Now is also the time to choose Canada,” Mr. Trudeau said, adding, “It might mean … Read more
The Trump administration announced plans this week to reopen an immigration detention facility in Newark, just a short drive from New York City, greatly expanding its capacity to hold detained immigrants in the Northeast as federal authorities seek to ramp up arrests and deportations. Known as Delaney Hall, the 1,000-bed, privately operated facility will be … Read more
Manhattan | 450 West 23rd Street, Apt. E Chelsea Co-op $1.95 million This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, roughly 1,200-square-foot duplex apartment has an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a half-bath and a wood-burning fireplace on the first level, and a primary suite with a walk-in closet, a second bedroom, a second full bath and washer/dryer on … Read more
Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll find out why officials have been invited to a famous funeral home for something other than a funeral. We’ll also get details on a study that found that 1 in 4 New Yorkers can’t afford basics like housing and food. The Frank E. Campbell funeral home on the Upper East … Read more
When the New Museum reopens this fall on New York’s Lower East Side, after a major expansion that shuttered it in March 2024, it will almost double its exhibition space to more than 20,000 square feet, thanks to a new, free-standing building designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architecture firm OMA. It … Read more
