The Manhattan district attorney’s office shocked a state judge in 2011 when it recommended that the financier Jeffrey Epstein be given the lowest possible sex offender status despite accusations that he had sexually abused dozens of girls. The judge refused, and the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., later reversed his stance, saying his assistant […]
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For its 150th anniversary, the Museum of Natural History is celebrating its many historic moments, from its 1869 founding, to the 1902 discovery of the first T-Rex skeleton, to the creation of the Teddy Roosevelt statue erected out front in 1940. One milestone not on that list: the biggest jewel heist in New York history, […]
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Cuba Gooding Jr. has been charged with pinching a woman’s behind at a nightclub in Manhattan in October 2018, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday in the second sexual misconduct case filed against the actor this year. Mr. Gooding, 51, who was previously charged with groping a woman at a rooftop bar near Times […]
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Well after most New Yorkers had gone to bed, a crew of Verizon workers was on the streets of the city on Tuesday morning getting ready to work on utility lines buried beneath the asphalt. At around 3:15 a.m., they stood in a usually traffic-choked intersection in Midtown Manhattan and removed the manhole cover separating […]
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Recently, I wandered around the vicinity of 14th Street and encountered a quiet that was almost eerie. I was unnervingly reminded of the days after 9/11, when cars were prohibited from making their way downtown. No one going to Cafe Cluny (on the corner of West 12th and West Fourth Streets) would have heard a […]
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The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to stop the release of President Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, arguing that local prosecutors should have to meet a very high legal bar before investigating a sitting president. The filing meant Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department was lending support to […]
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The bus had 14th Street almost to itself. The driver blew the horn at one delivery truck and squeezed by another. But cars? There was one, a ride-sharing car waiting to make a right turn while people straggled through the crosswalk. The bus pulled around it quickly, and kept going. Its speedy journey was made […]
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Prosecutors said on Thursday that new charges had been filed against Cuba Gooding Jr., delaying his trial over accusations that he groped a woman’s breast in a Manhattan bar in June. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said the actor had been indicted on charges related to a second incident, but the office did not elaborate […]
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Sisters, With Nearly 30 Years Between Us When Juliette was born, I didn’t want to meet her. A year passed before I fell in love with her piercing brown eyes looking up at me from our grandmother’s carpet. “Your half sister,” people say, until I correct them: “My sister.” Endless games and embraces dissolve our […]
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On Monday, a federal judge issued a ruling that effectively ordered President Trump’s accountants to turn over eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney. Mr. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed the decision, and an appeals court temporarily blocked the ruling. So for now, the president can keep his financial […]
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A federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s office to subpoena eight years of the president’s personal and corporate tax returns. Lawyers for Mr. Trump quickly told the court they would appeal the ruling from Judge Victor Marrero […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] During his three days as a star witness in a racketeering trial, the rapper Tekashi69 portrayed the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods as a ruthless enterprise whose members used intimidation and violence to coerce enemies and commit crimes. The rapper, […]
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Brokers saw it coming, but that didn’t soften the blow. Both the volume of sales and the price of co-ops and condos in Manhattan fell sharply in the third quarter, thanks in large part to higher transfer-tax rates for luxury apartments that went into effect in July, according to several new market reports. But the […]
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New York City has been steadily taking space away from cars since the first pedestrian plazas were carved out of the asphalt streetscape more than a decade ago. Roads that were once the exclusive domain of cars have been squeezed to make way for bike and bus-only lanes. Precious parking spots have been turned into […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] When the F.B.I. released a fat stack of documents about the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn on Friday, there were mentions of Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Hoffa, the Detroit Lions fullback Nick Pietrosante, W. Mark Felt (the F.B.I. agent […]
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At the Whitney Museum of American Art last week, Jason Moran and his Bandwagon trio had been playing for about 10 minutes inside a replica of the stage at the Three Deuces, a bebop club from 1940s New York, when he suddenly got up from the piano and snaked through the crowd assembled inside the […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] On a night in January 1997, a five-year-old girl playing with her pet hamster was struck in the head by a bullet that had crashed through a nearby window. Not far away, Officer Tom Wilson and his partner, Gus […]
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Nearly five years ago, Thomas Gilbert Jr. showed up unannounced at his parents’ Midtown Manhattan apartment and asked to speak alone with his father about business. Minutes later, his father, a hedge fund manager, lay dead with a gunshot […]
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It barely mattered, night or day, weekend or not, when the clangor of old metal cabinets being heaved into dumpsters would invade Michael Riley’s Manhattan apartment, disrupting all manner of peace. Mr. Riley, 64, a distinguished research scientist at Google, said that he had considered spending $40,000 to install sound-dampening windows but had ultimately settled […]
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When a former Honduran congressman goes on trial next week in Manhattan, charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, his older brother will be absent from the courtroom but will loom large over the case. That older brother, Juan Orlando Hernández, is the president of Honduras, and an ally of President Trump […]
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