A New York diamond dealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing more than $400,000 worth of diamonds from two sellers and replacing them with cheaper lab-grown stones in a scheme he operated out of a Manhattan storefront. The dealer, Manashe Sezanayev, 41, who owned Rachel’s Diamonds, a jewelry store in the heart of the borough’s … Read more
A majority of New York City’s Commission on Gender Equity called on Friday for Mayor Eric Adams to resign if he does not lay out a strategy for defending transgender New Yorkers, women and immigrants against the Trump administration’s threats to those groups’ rights. Sixteen commissioners appointed by Mr. Adams said in a letter that … Read more
Hazel N. Dukes, an early and unwavering crusader for civil rights who survived personal, professional and political setbacks to serve for nearly a half-century as the perennial president of New York State’s N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday at her home in Harlem. She was 92. Her death was announced by her son, Ronald. From 1990 to … Read more
In the months before he joined New York City’s mayoral race, Andrew M. Cuomo sought to create as much distance as possible from the sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign as governor more than three years ago. But with his entry on Saturday, some of his challengers in the race and the women … Read more
A Mexican drug lord notorious for his role in a U.S. drug enforcement agent’s brutal 1985 murder was arraigned on sweeping drug-trafficking charges in New York on Friday. The arraignment of the drug lord, Rafael Caro Quintero, a founding member of the Sinaloa Cartel, came a day after he was transferred to the United States … Read more
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Saturday that he would run for mayor of New York City, upending the race to unseat Eric Adams and setting up an audacious comeback attempt three years after he resigned in disgrace. With near-universal name recognition, deep-pocketed supporters and a decade as governor, Mr. Cuomo is expected to … Read more
Pegasus, the mythological winged stallion, symbolized divine inspiration and boundless freedom. So did Joseph Gitnig, the itinerant minstrel who called himself Pegasus and delighted children and adults who gathered spontaneously for nearly two decades to see him perform at the Central Park Zoo. Pegasus, the stallion, achieved immortality when Zeus transformed him into a constellation … Read more
A FedEx cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport with one of its engines on fire after it struck a bird while leaving the airport, officials said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said there were no reported … Read more
The speech by Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, in the closing week of Black History Month, seemed to be hitting all the right historical notes. He outlined the lineage tying together Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Rosa Parks and Barack Obama and connected the dots between David Dinkins, the city’s first Black mayor, and … Read more
