“He is a crucial bridge, maybe the main bridge from the early, early days of pizza in New York — brick ovens fueled by coal,” Pete Wells, who stepped down several months ago as The New York Times’s restaurant critic, told me. “That’s the kind of oven he learned to use when he was 12 … Read more
On her 15th day of freedom as a pardoned participant in the Jan. 6 riot, Rachel Powell drove through western Pennsylvania’s gray winter to the county courthouse in Franklin. She needed to check off applying for a gun permit from her homecoming to-do list. With her two youngest children trailing behind, Ms. Powell walked into … Read more
When Eric Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges last fall, resulting in the city of New York being left more or less unmanaged, Jim Walden decided to run for mayor. It was a quixotic idea, one in which even his family did not see an instant logic. While it was true that Idris Elba … Read more
It is a nightmare that plays out on the streets and subways every few months: A homeless person with a history of mental illness or violence falls through the cracks or wanders away from the system intended to help him, surfaces in a psychotic rage and attacks a random New Yorker. Though they make up … Read more
Since the November election, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York had preached patience in dealing with President Trump, favoring a more deliberative, compromise-building style that has guided her tenure. But this week, Ms. Hochul seemed intent on following a different course. After Mr. Trump announced his move to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program, … Read more
Marshall Rose, a real estate developer who was instrumental in reviving the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and transforming the adjacent Bryant Park from a mecca for drug dealers into a verdant Midtown oasis, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his … Read more
Janno Lieber, the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, had won. Congestion pricing, the tolling program designed to cut down traffic in Manhattan and raise billions of dollars for the region’s aging transit infrastructure, had survived an onslaught. Attempts by lawmakers to narrow its scope. A wave of lawsuits from truckers, residents and powerful … Read more
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Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the Trump administration’s move to end congestion pricing in Manhattan. We’ll also get details on a hearing on the administration’s effort to drop the criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams. President Trump said last week that he had a plan to force New York to “kill” the … Read more
