Khalid Mehdiyev returned a phone call in the summer of 2022 from a fellow member of the Russian mob, Polad Omarov. They had been collaborating on a project, Mr. Mehdiyev said, extorting a grocery store owner in Brooklyn. Now, Mr. Omarov said, he had been offered a bigger job by some people he knew. “They … Read more
Anne Kaufman Schneider, who shepherded the plays of her father, George S. Kaufman, a titan of 20th-century American theatrical wit, into the 21st century with an acerbic sagacity all her own, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99. Her executor, Laurence Maslon, confirmed her death. “Headstrong girls are difficult,” Ms. Kaufman … Read more
Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, have not been able to hold a private conversation with their client since his arrest. That revelation came during a hearing in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, as lawyers for Mr. Khalil and the government appeared in front of a judge, … Read more
Days after immigration officers arrested a prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist, administrators at Columbia University gathered students and faculty from the journalism school and issued a warning. Students who were not U.S. citizens should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine and protests related to their former classmate’s arrest, urged Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and … Read more
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, and seven current students asked a federal court on Thursday to block the school from producing student disciplinary records to a House committee that demanded them last month. The committee’s request and the school’s compliance with it would violate the First Amendment … Read more
The Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York has selected Denise Markonish as its next chief curator, the organization announced Thursday. Currently the chief curator at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass., Markonish will begin her new job stewarding the art program for the 6.2-acre park, which is used by 60,000 people daily, in June. … Read more
As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, the White House defended the arrest and rebuked the school for what it called lack of cooperation. The activist, Mahmoud Khalil, was a leader of student protests on Columbia’s campus and … Read more
The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant — the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns — reflects a bygone era of the West Village in Manhattan, where the establishment was founded almost a century ago. But alongside those period details, there is one dissonant design element that evokes a far more … Read more
Manhattan | 243 West 60th Street, No. 7A Lincoln Square Condo $1.775 million A two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,302-square-foot apartment with a large primary bedroom, a windowed en suite bath with a double vanity, a vented washer/dryer, walk-in closets, built-ins, gas fireplaces, 11-foot ceilings, zoned heat and air-conditioning and a terrace, on the seventh floor of a … Read more
