Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at why some building owners are raising constitutional objections to everyday eyesores in New York City. We’ll also get details on a mayoral candidate who says that hiring more police officers is not the solution to concerns about crime. The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the … Read more
Miriam Yarimi should not have been driving at all. But on Saturday, even with her license suspended, Ms. Yarimi, a 32-year-old professional wig maker and social media influencer, got behind the wheel of a blue Audi sedan. Her trip down Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn ended in three deaths: that of a 35-year-old woman and two … Read more
For weeks, New York leaders have watched President Trump issue executive orders, slash federal funding and direct Elon Musk to shrink the government work force, while trying to determine how it all may affect the state. Now some state lawmakers are trying to strike back. Two Democratic legislators are introducing a bill on Wednesday aimed … Read more
Claire Shipman is only days into her job as acting president of Columbia University but is already being targeted by a prominent House Republican who questions her commitment to fighting antisemitism on campus. Ms. Shipman, in a private text message in December 2023 to Nemat Shafik, who was then Columbia’s president, referred to congressional hearings … Read more
When the Trump Organization sold its interest in a public golf course in New York City to Bally’s, the deal was freighted with symbolism. Bally’s promptly erased the giant “Trump Links” sign from the property in the Bronx by the Whitestone Bridge. Suddenly, a visible artifact of President Trump’s despised presence in New York was … Read more
Two rookie officers with the New York Police Department have been indicted on charges of burglary, forcible touching, petty larceny and official misconduct after prosecutors said they groped and robbed a sex worker while on patrol duty in Queens. The officers, Justin McMillan, 27, and Justin Colon, 24, who were assigned to the 115th Precinct … Read more
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