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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City insists that he is running for re-election. But if actions speak louder than words, evidence would strongly suggest otherwise. The mayor has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers in the June 24 primary, less than … Read more

Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more

A 4-year-old boy died on Tuesday after he was found near fentanyl in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, according to a senior law enforcement official. The police responded to a 911 call on Tuesday morning at the shelter where the boy was found, on Glenwood Road in the East Flatbush neighborhood, the official said. Emergency medical … Read more

For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recusing itself from investigating the death of a prisoner whom other inmates said was brutally beaten by guards. As occurred in the case of the earlier death, a special prosecutor will take over the inquiry into … Read more

Several arts organizations sued the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday, challenging its new requirement that grant applicants agree to comply with President Trump’s executive orders by promising not to promote “gender ideology.” The groups that filed the suit have made or supported art about transgender and nonbinary people, and have received N.E.A. funding … Read more

The assignment carried a lot of risk and not much reward. The Long Island detective would try to shut down illegal gambling operations run out of backrooms in a shoe repair store, a cafe and a chess club. The work netted him around $8,000. But his employer wasn’t the police: It was the Bonanno crime … Read more

With New York City bearing the greatest burden of the nation’s migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams was expected to be a focus of the House oversight hearing on so-called sanctuary cities. But throughout the contentious Republican-led session on Wednesday with four big city mayors, Mr. Adams was treated like a sideshow, his discomfort visible. The … Read more

Declare a state of emergency because of New York City’s housing crisis. Build 50,000 homes on public golf courses. Triple subsidies for affordable housing. These are a few of Brad Lander’s ideas to address the housing crisis if he is elected mayor in November, according to a 30-page housing plan he is set to announce … Read more