Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll find out about the national youth poet laureate’s love letter to the school she attends. We’ll also get details on a nonprofit group’s purchase of the Metro Theater building on the Upper West Side. Some universities have alma maters. Harvard sings to “Fair Harvard,” and Yale harmonizes about “Bright … Read more
Adrienne Adams, the New York City Council speaker who is running for mayor, will propose on Monday a guaranteed basic income program that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. It would aim to help more than 21,000 homeless children and young adults. The idea of giving families monthly checks — … Read more
More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island and in southeast Queens and the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse. The report, released Monday by … Read more
Ranjani Srinivasan, a Fulbright recipient from India who was pursuing a doctoral degree in urban planning at Columbia University, fled to Canada after authorities revoked her student visa and showed up at her campus apartment on March 7. Two weeks later, in Somerville, Mass., Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and graduate student at Tufts University, … Read more
Nothing has made me regret Atlantic Theater Company going dark for more than two months this year like “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” the absolute tonic of a show that reopens the company’s second stage. Written for and performed by the downtown wonder David Greenspan, who has collected a half-dozen Obie Awards over his … Read more
Jerome Dewald sat with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap in front of an appellate panel of New York State judges, ready to argue for a reversal of a lower court’s decision in his dispute with a former employer. The court had allowed Mr. Dewald, who is not a lawyer and … Read more
A man attacked four girls with a meat cleaver in a Brooklyn home on Sunday morning before he was shot by the police, who rushed to the house after one of the injured children called 911, the police said. All four girls, ages 8, 11, 13 and 16, have serious slash and stab wounds but … Read more
A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community. The soiled mats and other vandalism were discovered Thursday afternoon in a worship space … Read more
On Wednesday the judge, Dale Ho, gave Adams what he wanted, a dismissal of the charges. That was also what the Trump administration wanted, though it preferred that the charges be dismissed with the right to bring them back, which the judge refused. That — and Adams’s apparent chumminess with the president — made some … Read more
A prominent private schools group will not hold two decades-old conferences related to diversity this year, a notable move amid the federal government’s crackdown on equity and inclusion programs. The announcement from the National Association of Independent Schools was made on Thursday as the Trump administration released guidance threatening to pull federal funding from public … Read more