The Manhattan art adviser Lisa Schiff, who admitted to stealing millions of dollars clients gave her to buy art, but which she instead burned through to fund her life of luxury, was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken sentenced Ms. Schiff, 55, to … Read more
New Yorkers have long prided themselves on knowing how to successfully swipe their MetroCards on the first pass while tourists fumbled their way through the turnstiles. In their heyday, the yellow cards littered the floors of subway stations and piled up in riders’ wallets. Now, the MetroCard is finally going the way of the subway … Read more
Ask a New Orleanian which of the city’s neighborhoods has changed the most over the past 10 years and they’re likely to say Bywater Historic District, a roughly 120-block neighborhood running alongside the Mississippi River. Although only a 15 minute walk from the bacchanalia of Bourbon Street, Bywater feels like a calm retreat, where you … Read more
Just a few wisps of Masih Alinejad’s hair were visible as she walked in Iran with her brother one day over a decade ago. That was enough for the morality police. “They beat up my brother in front of me,” Ms. Alinejad, an Iranian-born dissident, testified in Manhattan this week. For over a week, jurors … Read more
The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island’s north shore, re-elected its mayor on Tuesday. For the normally placid small town, the election capped eight turbulent days and seemingly ended a quixotic write-in campaign by a brash snack-food mogul. But elections these days don’t always end when they’re over. And so even before the … Read more
Friedman attributes many of her passions and habits to an unusual upbringing. She has described her childhood as feral, and said it has informed many of her artistic and career choices. She was one of four children born to a violinist father who left the family around the time she was born and a pianist … Read more
Case 1:25-cv-01935-JME Document 78 Filed 03/19/25 Page 28 of 33 Cnty., No. 24-CV-3850 (LTS), 2024 WL 3318225, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. June 17, 2024); Bynum v. N.J., No. 24-CV-618 (LTS), 2024 WL 1023210, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 26, 2024); Moussaoui v. Biden, No. 25-CV-691 (JGK), 2025 WL 457804, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 28, 2025); … Read more
More than one million Canadians visited New York City last year, injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy. Now, they are canceling trips in droves. School groups have called off end-of-semester trips. So have busloads of retirees, as well as newlyweds planning honeymoons, friends celebrating birthdays and a family from Quebec that … Read more
Before Bill Cunningham rode his bicycle around the city taking photos of fashionable New Yorkers for The New York Times, he helped dress some of them as William J., the milliner. Along with socialites and Old Hollywood stars — Doris Duke, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers among them — his fans included people … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at curbside composting. The city will begin fining buildings that don’t separate compostable material from other waste starting next month. Confusion about curbside composting has been rising as April 1 approaches. That is when buildings in New York City that don’t separate compostable waste from other trash will … Read more