Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, stole tens of millions from a temporary housing program that was designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New York’s jails, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. Ms. Hu, along with two other defendants, Julio Medina and Christopher Dantzler, conspired to steal from … Read more
Change doesn’t always come easily in Brooklyn’s liberal strongholds. But New York’s push to build more housing in every corner of the city — even in places that have sometimes been skeptical of new development — cleared a significant hurdle on Wednesday, when a key City Council committee approved a zoning change that will clear … Read more
Two people died in a fire that engulfed a Buddhist temple in the Bronx early Wednesday morning, the second fatal blaze in a week where responding firefighters had to navigate illegally parked cars that blocked fire hydrants, officials said. One person died at the scene of the fire, and the other was pronounced dead at … Read more
A New York City police lieutenant who shot and killed a man after pulling him over for not wearing a seatbelt should be fired, a police administrative judge recommended in a rare ruling that will ultimately go to Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch for a final decision. The officer, Lt. Jonathan Rivera, was a sergeant on … Read more
Manhattan | 120 East 83rd Street, No. 2B Upper East Side Co-op $449,000 An updated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a windowed kitchen, a windowed bathroom, built-in shelving, 10-foot ceilings and original flooring, on the second floor of a five-story cat-friendly building from 1898 with a super, shared laundry, bike storage and a garden. Aimee Denaro … Read more
Lattanzi doesn’t exactly scream “celebrity magnet.” Its brick-walled, burgundy-carpeted dining room, lined with black-and-white photos of Rome, feels more antique than affluent. The menu leans on old Italian standbys like veal scaloppine and chicken piccata. There’s no bouncer, no photos of famous regulars, no gatekeeping host. The location isn’t some trendy downtown neighborhood, but Restaurant … Read more
Chad Tavernia was at home in Malone, N.Y., one Saturday in January when he received a call from a couple whose puppy had escaped their yard. They had searched the snowy woods behind their home, but the puppy, Aurora, had vanished. Nearly a day had gone by and temperatures were below freezing. The couple, Paul … Read more
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about the push to unionize backstage crews Off Broadway. We’ll also get details on the Trump administration’s seizure of $80 million that was supposed to cover some of the city’s expenses for housing migrants. For more than a month, striking stage crews have idled the nonprofit Atlantic … Read more
Students at North Carolina’s public universities can no longer be required to take classes related to diversity, equity and inclusion to graduate. The University of Akron, citing changing state and federal guidance, will no longer host its “Rethinking Race” forum that it had held annually for more than two decades. The University of Colorado took … Read more
