Bells, drums and chants rang out Saturday afternoon in Union Square in Manhattan as thousands of New Yorkers gathered to protest an executive order from the Trump administration targeting transgender children and teens. The order, which threatens to withhold federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to trans youth, has left many local families … Read more
The chief judge of New York State’s highest court urged the State Legislature on Monday to pass a bill that would allow prisoners who have been locked up for years to apply for reduced sentences. The judge, Rowan Wilson, who oversees the state’s entire court system, said in his annual address at the Court of … Read more
A federal judge early Saturday temporarily restricted access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems, saying there was a risk of “irreparable harm.” The Trump administration’s new policy of allowing political appointees and “special government employees” access to these systems, which contain highly sensitive information such as bank … Read more
A Brooklyn woman has been charged in the death of her 6-year-old daughter, who had been found unconscious on Friday in a bathtub filled with water, the police said. The woman, Karla Espinal, 26, was charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment of a child on Saturday evening, the police said on Sunday. The cause … Read more
A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Striking stage crews have idled the nonprofit Atlantic Theater Company — the birthplace of the musicals “Spring Awakening,” “The Band’s Visit” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” which all transferred to Broadway and … Read more
In the decades when he was running the widely influential Off Broadway nonprofit Playwrights Horizons, Tim Sanford would not have been the one driving to New Jersey to see a man about a tree. But his new theater company, a scrappy, idealistic outfit dedicated to established older playwrights, is a more hands-on operation. So one … Read more
Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll find out what is different about a two-mile stretch of Third Avenue these days. Something unusual happened on a 36-block stretch of Third Avenue at the end of January. The traffic lights were slowed down. Traffic signals had been timed for cars and trucks at 25 miles per hour. … Read more
Opening statements are expected on Monday in the trial of the man accused of rushing onstage and stabbing the author Salman Rushdie in 2022, leaving him blind in one eye. The man, Hadi Matar of Fairview, N.J., is charged with attempted murder and assault in the stabbing, which occurred in front of thousands of people … Read more
When Ralph Macchio was first approached about doing a “Karate Kid” series about the adult lives of Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, he was skeptical. “I was like, ‘I’m a car salesman?’” said Macchio, who starred in the original 1984 film as Daniel, a teenage transplant to Southern California, who learns karate and defeats his … Read more
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at a fight over a once familiar neon sign on the Upper East Side. We’ll also get details on a federal investigation involving Shen Yun Performing Arts, the touring dance group run by the Falun Gong religious movement. This is about a bar fight, but not one that … Read more