For Americans struggling with chronic homelessness and mental illness, there is a common answer: apartments with very low rents in a building that offers social services on site. Permanent supportive housing, as it is called, started in the late 1970s in New York City after two factors caused homelessness to spiral: the mass deinstitutionalization that … Read more
With its copper bar and brass-rail-backed banquettes, Lazare evokes a traditional Parisian brasserie, but registers as modern with its exposed ductwork overhead and wall units filled with stacked white plates, pitchers, vases and other objects. Similarly, the stylish comfort-food menu includes Normandy oysters, onion soup and roasted sausage with buttery potato purée, as well as … Read more
One morning in 2015, a few years after she had begun to separate herself from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world in which she was raised, Abby Stein met with her father to come out as a woman. Raised in a Hasidic enclave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Stein was all but certain that her family was unfamiliar with … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at why some building owners are raising constitutional objections to everyday eyesores in New York City. We’ll also get details on a mayoral candidate who says that hiring more police officers is not the solution to concerns about crime. The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the … Read more
Miriam Yarimi should not have been driving at all. But on Saturday, even with her license suspended, Ms. Yarimi, a 32-year-old professional wig maker and social media influencer, got behind the wheel of a blue Audi sedan. Her trip down Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn ended in three deaths: that of a 35-year-old woman and two … Read more
For weeks, New York leaders have watched President Trump issue executive orders, slash federal funding and direct Elon Musk to shrink the government work force, while trying to determine how it all may affect the state. Now some state lawmakers are trying to strike back. Two Democratic legislators are introducing a bill on Wednesday aimed … Read more
Claire Shipman is only days into her job as acting president of Columbia University but is already being targeted by a prominent House Republican who questions her commitment to fighting antisemitism on campus. Ms. Shipman, in a private text message in December 2023 to Nemat Shafik, who was then Columbia’s president, referred to congressional hearings … Read more
When the Trump Organization sold its interest in a public golf course in New York City to Bally’s, the deal was freighted with symbolism. Bally’s promptly erased the giant “Trump Links” sign from the property in the Bronx by the Whitestone Bridge. Suddenly, a visible artifact of President Trump’s despised presence in New York was … Read more
Two rookie officers with the New York Police Department have been indicted on charges of burglary, forcible touching, petty larceny and official misconduct after prosecutors said they groped and robbed a sex worker while on patrol duty in Queens. The officers, Justin McMillan, 27, and Justin Colon, 24, who were assigned to the 115th Precinct … Read more
On a rainy night on the Upper East Side, art world philanthropists, billionaire business moguls and New York socialites scurried under a canopy of umbrellas and into the newly restored Frick. Old money — the Gilded Age mansion of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick — met new money — a $220 million renovation — on … Read more