Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at the art shoppers can find when they go to a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan. Julie Averbach led the way into what she said was an art gallery. It didn’t look like one. There were no velvet ropes in front of the most valuable pieces, and no little … Read more
Four years ago, allegations of sexual misconduct turned the New York political sphere upside down. Numerous allegations against Andrew M. Cuomo led to his resignation as governor in August 2021; months earlier, Scott M. Stringer, a former city comptroller, saw his bid for mayor fall short after two women accused him of sexual harassment decades … Read more
The quality that made the tightly knit Fusco family great was the very thing that exacted the harshest price. Two dozen or so relatives had gathered five years ago for dinner, as they often did. They talked loudly, hugged and shared food, unaware of the virus that filled the air in a kitchen in New … Read more
The idea to kill Ms. Alinejad in Brooklyn originated soon after the kidnapping plot fell apart, according to prosecutors, and was initiated by a network in Iran led by Ruhollah Bazghandi, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards. He and three other Iranian men who are not in U.S. custody have been charged in Manhattan … Read more
Art Schallock, the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles left-handed pitcher of the 1950s who had been the oldest living former major leaguer, died on Thursday in Sonoma, Calif. He was 100. His death was confirmed by his family. When the Yankees sent 19-year-old Mickey Mantle to the minors in 1951, they called up Schallock, … Read more
Federal immigration authorities on Saturday detained a well-known activist who played a major role in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian student movement last year, his lawyer said on Sunday. The arrest of the activist, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was a significant escalation of President Trump’s crackdown on what he has called antisemitic campus … Read more
Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in … Read more
The lobby lacks the swirly marble flooring and chandeliers of finer residential buildings. The long hallways are almost dingy. But behind one of the apartment doors on a recent night, the mood was anything but dull. Butterflied branzino was about to go in the oven. A pan of glistening buns rested on the stove. Fariyal … Read more
There are plenty of thorny policy issues facing the next governor of New Jersey. Housing and health care costs are high. Mass transit is on the ropes. Schools are among the most segregated in the country, and sea levels along the state’s 130-mile coastline are rising. But on the campaign trail, nearly all the candidates … Read more
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As a reporter for The New York Times, Dionne Searcey has, as she put it, covered “a gazillion different things.” She has written about politics, environmental issues and economics and traveled to places like Romania; … Read more