Nowruz, the Persian New Year, began on Thursday, kicking off a celebration of life, renewal and rebirth that people in Iran and beyond have been observing for many generations. More than 300 million people worldwide celebrate Nowruz, which means “new day” in Persian. Many of them greet one another by saying “Nowruzetan pirooz” or “Wishing … Read more
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the ramifications of a letter from the secretary of transportation requesting data on crime in the subway. We’ll also look at why an independent commission says closing the Rikers Island jail complex should be someone’s full-time job. It wasn’t really about crime. Or was it? A letter … Read more
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Foreign defendants brought to the United States almost never face capital punishment, no matter how grave the allegations against them. But when a notorious drug lord arrived from Mexico in Brooklyn federal court last month on charges that included killing a federal agent, prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York said that he might … Read more
President Trump has aggressively intervened in New York City affairs. He shocked Columbia University by stripping away government grants and contracts and demanding an overhaul of its admissions and disciplinary rules. His administration threatened to cut off funding to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unless it provided a long list of statistics on subway crime. And … Read more
Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic and a senior writer for the Culture section of The Times, where he has been on staff since 1998. Produced by Maridelis Morales Rosado and Josephine Sedgwick. Design and development by Leo Dominguez and Gabriel Gianordoli. Images: The Frick Collection (All Artworks); The Frick Collection/Frick Art Research Library … Read more
The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a … Read more
Two students who were manipulated into sending naked photographs to Winston Nguyen, a teacher at Saint Ann’s School, expressed their horror, humiliation and enduring pain in letters read aloud at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. “You begged for sexually explicit images of me to the point where I felt trapped,” one victim wrote, in a … Read more
Mr. Adams said at a news conference on Monday that he was not worried. “Everyone is catching up to me,” he said. “I started raising early.” The mayor actually received $36,000 in contributions, but he ended up netting only $19,000 after adjustments and $21,000 in refunds, including $3,700 to Brock Pierce, a cryptocurrency investor who … Read more
The Manhattan art adviser Lisa Schiff, who admitted to stealing millions of dollars clients gave her to buy art, but which she instead burned through to fund her life of luxury, was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken sentenced Ms. Schiff, 55, to … Read more