In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched a $200 million effort to help small business owners with marijuana convictions open New York’s first licensed cannabis dispensaries. State lawmakers approved $50 million to help the program, known as the Cannabis Social Equity Investment Fund, begin leasing and renovating stores that were supposed to open the following year. … Read more
At Adirondack Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, the job of delivering meals to hungry inmates fell suddenly to the prison’s superintendent and its teachers and counselors. At Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, two ailing men died after not receiving medical care quickly enough. At Sing Sing Correctional Facility north of New York … Read more
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