Four days after stepping down as Columbia University’s interim president, Dr. Katrina Armstrong testified in a contentious closed-door deposition in Washington that she didn’t remember specifics from Columbia’s own report on antisemitism and had trouble describing how she had responded to its recommendations. “It has been a very, very, very challenging year,” she said, according … Read more
During President Trump’s first months in office, officials in his administration have used the threat of withholding federal funding to bend institutions and municipalities to their ideological will. That strategy shows no signs of abating. The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing billions of dollars in grants for cities and states to make sure recipients … Read more
Blanca, the Brooklyn tasting counter that since 2012 has served rarefied and highly individual cooking under the glassy stare of a taxidermic tuna head, will close at the end of the week. Carlo Mirarchi, one of the owners and the original chef, said that the landlord had decided not to renew the lease on Blanca’s … Read more
For weeks, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has derided the New York City subway, repeatedly making fear-mongering assertions that the nation’s biggest transit system is unsafe. He has characterized the subway as a hellscape, even though it is used by more than four million riders a day and underpins the financial and cultural capital of the … Read more
In the 1960s Benrus was one of America’s largest watchmakers, producing about a million watches a year. It made the huge clock that kept time at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, supplied watches to the U.S. military and had its timepieces worn by President John F. Kennedy, Steve McQueen, Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth. … Read more
Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll find out about the national youth poet laureate’s love letter to the school she attends. We’ll also get details on a nonprofit group’s purchase of the Metro Theater building on the Upper West Side. Some universities have alma maters. Harvard sings to “Fair Harvard,” and Yale harmonizes about “Bright … Read more
Adrienne Adams, the New York City Council speaker who is running for mayor, will propose on Monday a guaranteed basic income program that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. It would aim to help more than 21,000 homeless children and young adults. The idea of giving families monthly checks — … Read more
More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island and in southeast Queens and the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse. The report, released Monday by … Read more
Ranjani Srinivasan, a Fulbright recipient from India who was pursuing a doctoral degree in urban planning at Columbia University, fled to Canada after authorities revoked her student visa and showed up at her campus apartment on March 7. Two weeks later, in Somerville, Mass., Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and graduate student at Tufts University, … Read more
Nothing has made me regret Atlantic Theater Company going dark for more than two months this year like “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” the absolute tonic of a show that reopens the company’s second stage. Written for and performed by the downtown wonder David Greenspan, who has collected a half-dozen Obie Awards over his … Read more