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
A commission on closing the Rikers Island jail complex urged New York City to appoint two senior officials to focus solely on shutting down the notoriously troubled jail, part of a series of recommendations designed to accomplish a goal mandated six years ago. The city is not on track to meet the deadline of August … Read more
The green-eyed TV star with the beauty mark on her cheek shows up at a school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan every Wednesday. For an hour, Ms. Tina, as the students and teachers call her, devotes herself to a pair of 7-year-olds who are struggling with reading. They’ll go through whatever books the … Read more
An assemblywoman who leads the Brooklyn Democratic Party and who has been a key backer of Mayor Eric Adams endorsed his main rival in the upcoming mayoral election, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, on Sunday. The decision by the assemblywoman, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, is one of the clearest signs yet that the winning coalition Mr. … Read more
As the chief executive of Golden Age Hospitality, Mr. Neidich, 43, runs a chic downtown empire that includes the Le Dive in Dimes Square and the Nines piano bar, where a caviar potato costs $99. That would seem to put him a long way from Lucy’s — but 18 years ago, when he was an … Read more
As the chief executive of Golden Age Hospitality, Mr. Neidich, 43, runs a chic downtown empire that includes the Le Dive in Dimes Square and the Nines piano bar, where a caviar potato costs $99. That would seem to put him a long way from Lucy’s — but 18 years ago, when he was an … Read more
The Trump administration appears likely to succeed in having federal corruption charges dropped against Mayor Eric Adams in Manhattan. But in Brooklyn, a separate group of prosecutors has been conducting a long-running investigation involving Mr. Adams’s most prominent fund-raiser — and at one point searched her homes and office for evidence of a possible Chinese … Read more
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll learn about the gatehouses in Central Park that the city wants to repurpose. And, with 99 days to the Democratic primary for mayor, we’ll also get details on how much money the candidates have raised so far. To many New Yorkers, the reservoir in Central Park is a body … Read more
Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly … Read more
Less than two months after former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was sentenced to 11 years in prison on federal corruption charges, the trial of his wife, Nadine Menendez, begins on Tuesday in Manhattan. Ms. Menendez, 58, was charged with her husband and three New Jersey businessmen in a wide-ranging bribery scheme, but her … Read more