Weather: Sunny, with a high near 40. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Friday (Lunar New Year’s Eve). ImageEric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president. Credit…Elizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times “Go back to Iowa. You go back to Ohio.” That was Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who is expected to run for mayor, speaking […]
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It was a provocative, possibly divisive, message from a mainstream mayoral candidate in New York City. The candidate, Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, spoke of how new arrivals to New York were “hijacking” apartments from longtime residents. “Go back to Iowa,” Mr. Adams, a Democrat, said on Monday at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s […]
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday partially overturned the 2018 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, but allowed much of the conviction to stand — likely ending his hopes of remaining out of prison. Mr. Silver, a Democrat from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, had been sentenced […]
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Recently, after having dinner in Midtown Manhattan, I put on my AirPods Pro as I walked to the subway station. I began getting hot, so I gently pulled off my red beanie while at 58th Street and Broadway. Then it happened. The AirPod in my right ear fell out. By the time I realized it, […]
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Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid-30s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Friday (Lunar New Year’s Eve). When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, homes in Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn were destroyed. Lower Manhattan was flooded and thrown into darkness. Seventy-two people in the city died. Could a six-mile-long wall, stretching from […]
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Two months after jumping into the presidential race, Michael R. Bloomberg has hired staff members in 35 states. He has poured $200 million into advertising. He has crisscrossed the country, visiting dozens of cities far from the standard campaign trail. But one issue has dogged him the entire way: His use of stop-and-frisk policing as […]
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A man walked into a Chase Bank in Brooklyn wearing a Chicago Bulls baseball cap just as the 9-to-5 crowd was leaving work on a recent Friday. He passed a note written in red ink to a teller. “This is a robbery,” it read. “Big bills only no dye packs.” He left the bank that […]
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Over the past 15 years or so, Pedro Maldonado, Nigel Warren and Brieanna Hayes, all now in their 20s, cumulatively lived in about 39 different foster homes in New York City. Pedro, who is Italian, was lucky: He ultimately settled in with a caring Mexican family for more than a decade before he aged out […]
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A water main break, the second in one week, flooded New York City subway stations and suspended service on several lines on Sunday morning. The flooding disrupted subway service on the A, C and D lines between 125th Street and 59th Street-Columbus Circle, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Twitter. The break occurred at 102nd […]
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Image Corner Laundry Dear Diary: The corner laundromat is narrow, with blue walls and a small TV that plays the news in Spanish. A hand-lettered sign taped to the doorway reads, “Last Wash 7 p.m., Close 9 p.m.” At 5 p.m., a woman in a mechanized wheelchair is loading a dryer. Her daughter, wearing a […]
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