On a rainy night on the Upper East Side, art world philanthropists, billionaire business moguls and New York socialites scurried under a canopy of umbrellas and into the newly restored Frick. Old money — the Gilded Age mansion of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick — met new money — a $220 million renovation — on … Read more
The federal judge weighing a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York has been doing so against an extraordinary backdrop — a series of moves by the Trump administration that have shattered the norms of the American justice system. Since the government filed its motion to dismiss the … Read more
In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York or shortly after being released from city custody, equaling the number of detainees who died in all of 2024. The fifth death, on Monday night, comes as Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to … Read more
Police officers in northern New Jersey have accused their chief of engaging in a campaign of strange and violent harassment, including stabbing his assistant with a hypodermic needle, shaving his body hair onto workers’ desks, pouring prescription drugs into the office coffee pot and defecating repeatedly on the floor of police headquarters. Descriptions of angry … Read more
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about what happened to a 7,500-pound chunk of a wall with a Banksy installation from 2013. We’ll also get details on a request from Mayor Eric Adams’s lawyer for a federal judge to hurry a decision on whether to drop corruption charges against the mayor. A dark-colored … Read more
In the middle of the night on Dec. 5, a woman in a Brooklyn apartment heard troubling sounds a few doors away: a boy wailing, a man shouting, women screaming and what seemed to be a hand striking bare skin. She texted 911. “They are beating a child,” she wrote to the dispatcher. “You can … Read more
In New York, playing to voters’ concerns about crime has become a popular strategy, successful enough that even left-leaning Democrats have embraced calls for more police officers. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist rising in the polls in the New York City mayor’s race, has chosen a different approach. His 18-page public safety plan, which will … Read more
Tension had been building at Princeton University as pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a white-columned, Greek Revival-style building at the center of campus and the police moved in. An angry crowd had surrounded a bus where two demonstrators were being held after officers led them out of the building. “It was a tense time as there were … Read more
As New York City voters tilt slightly toward the center, the left-leaning Working Families Party hopes that a slate of four mayoral candidates will be better than the one moderate rival currently leading the polls, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. The party on Saturday voted to endorse Zohran Mamdani, an assemblyman from Queens; Brad Lander, … Read more
The Trump administration has granted itself the authority to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of a violent street gang on the basis of little more than whether they have tattoos or have worn clothing associated with the criminal organization, new court papers show. The papers suggest that the administration has set a … Read more