The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York field office said in an email Monday that he had been forced out of his job. His departure follows clashes with Justice Department officials over the Trump administration’s directives. The agent, James E. Dennehy, was told Friday to retire from his role leading the F.B.I.’s largest field … Read more
The Trump administration has vowed to kill congestion pricing in New York City. Now officials have taken the unusual step of making a man-on-the-street video to demonstrate what they say is public opposition to the program. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, posted the 26-second video on X on Friday. It starts with a question onscreen: … Read more
Nobody knows how exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip. … Read more
A Timeline of Andrew Cuomo’s Rise, Fall and Re-emergence
A courtroom can become a sort of time machine. The criminal trial of Paul Geer, a former music teacher, played out in federal court in Albany, N.Y., last week. But testimony and photographic evidence transported everyone back to the 1990s and early 2000s to a town 125 miles away, Hancock, and to the Family Foundation … Read more
Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, who nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique cameras and homemade paints to produce haunting photographs and landscape paintings, died on Feb. 4. He was 60. His sister, Harriet Hirshorn, said the cause was coronary artery disease. … Read more
Brighton Beach, a Slavic enclave in Brooklyn where Ukrainians outnumber Russians two to one, voted overwhelmingly for President Trump. But the day after Mr. Trump dressed down President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an explosive meeting at the White House — the latest show of Mr. Trump’s declining support for Ukraine — some Ukrainian New … Read more
In declaring his candidacy for mayor of New York, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo painted a picture of a city in trouble, besieged by crime, homelessness and menace, above and below ground. For all these problems, he blamed a central culprit: the failed leadership of the Democratic Party, of which he has been a fixture … Read more
M. Paul Friedberg, a landscape architect whose playgrounds, pocket parks and plazas transformed once-gritty areas of New York City, using familiar urban materials to do so, died on Feb. 15 in Manhattan. He was 93. His death, in a hospital, was announced by Dorit Shahar, his wife. Mr. Friedberg grew up in rural Pennsylvania, but … Read more
Late last fall at the Hugo Newman School in Harlem, two social studies teachers handed out pages of hip-hop lyrics to their seventh graders, and then flicked off the lights. The students appeared surprised. They had been studying ancient matriarchal societies, including Iroquois communities that had women leaders. Now, their teachers were about to play … Read more