On a recent Wednesday morning in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, parents and children met up in McCarren Park with all manner of wheels: electric cargo bikes, scooters, tricycles, classic cruisers. By 7:30 a.m., about 30 people were ready to roll. Around the same time, a similar scene was unfolding in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where cyclists wearing high-visibility vests […]
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A coal train, blaring its horn in the dark, was the first to rumble past the Bahanaga Bazar rail station, the site of one of the deadliest train disasters in India’s history, as rail lines reopened in both directions after midnight on Monday. The restoration of the important rail route, watched by senior train officials […]
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Five months after a blizzard devastated western New York, killing 31 residents of Buffalo, a report released on Friday cited multiple failures in the city’s response to the blinding snowfall that whipped through the region for three days, trapping many people in their cars, homes and workplaces. Emergency warnings from city officials did not adequately […]
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They received numerous threatening letters, too, Ms. Brandt-Duda said. One was written on the margins of an article about the incident from The New York Post, she said. The newspaper covered the case extensively and also published an opinion column arguing that the “president of the United States, supported by a fan-girl media, spouts irresponsible […]
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A warning issued by the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, on Tuesday provided guidance about an issue that has been front of mind for American parents for years: the negative effects of social media on the mental health of young people. These types of public health advisories are infrequent, but sometimes become turning […]
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New Yorkers have long asserted their rights over cars on the city’s streets, identifying with Dustin Hoffman in “Midnight Cowboy” who barks, “I’m walkin’ here!” at a cab that nearly hits him as he tries to cross the street. Recent changes in street width, curb size, crosswalks, bike lanes and speed limits that were made […]
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Since recreational marijuana was legalized statewide in March 2021, weed now seems ubiquitous on New York City roadways. At smoke shops, customers drive off after blazing up. In motion or at red lights, smoke wafts from car windows, the smell mingling with exhaust fumes in a pungent miasma. “It’s coming from all walks of life. […]
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“It’s a messed-up business,” said Roger Wong, a freelance photographer, who on Thursday evening was among a few dozen others waiting on a step and repeat outside the Hard Rock Hotel, near Times Square. He was hoping to get a sellable shot of Martha Stewart, one of this year’s cover models for Sports Illustrated’s annual […]
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Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and her mother, Doria Ragland, were involved in a “near catastrophic” car chase while being followed by paparazzi on Tuesday night in the New York area, a spokesperson said. “Last night, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland were involved in a near catastrophic […]
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It must have seemed like a rare moment of peace for a group of newly arrived migrants who had spent the night at a shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, after an arduous journey north. Then, as they milled around outside on Sunday morning, a gray S.U.V. roared through a red light, toppled […]
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A day after a sport-utility vehicle plowed through a group of migrants in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight people, police officials identified the man behind the wheel as George Alvarez and said they were still trying to determine whether the crash was intentional. Mr. Alvarez has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter, 10 counts of […]
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At least six people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in crashes caused by “excessive winds” that blew dust onto Interstate 55 in Farmersville, Ill., on Monday morning, leading to “zero visibility” conditions, the Illinois State Police said. The crashes, which took place just before 11 a.m. in a rural area south […]
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Toward the end of 2014, as part of the mayor’s agenda, the speed limit on most city streets was reduced to 25 miles an hour. During its first five years, Vision Zero brought the installation of more than 360 speed bumps and major bike lane and pedestrian plaza projects; it also increased by more than […]
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SACRAMENTO — Spring has arrived with a jolt this year in California. Hammered for months by rain, snow, sleet and nearly every other conceivable meteorological permutation, the state has emerged from one of the harshest winters on record only to confront a fresh indignity. “These potholes!” Arnold Schwarzenegger complained last week in an interview from […]
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“This stretch of Arguello Boulevard has two unprotected, paint-only bike lanes, which allows drivers to drive recklessly at unsafe speeds and may have contributed to Ethan’s death,” Luke Bornheimer, a sustainable transportation advocate, said in a statement. “There is simple infrastructure that is proven to increase safety for all people — including drivers — and […]
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SABZAK PASS, Afghanistan — The hotel is perched on the side of a mountain blanketed in snow. The ice-slicked road outside is treacherous. It stretches for miles in either direction through jagged peaks as it winds around the edges of cliffs and dips past piles of boulders left over from frequent rockslides. It’s 6:30 a.m., […]
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The actor Jeremy Renner, who was severely injured on Jan. 1 when a heavy snow plow ran over him, said in a TV interview set to be broadcast on Thursday night that he had been trying to save his nephew when the truck hit him, breaking more than 30 bones. Mr. Renner, an Oscar-nominated actor […]
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Last week, the former Treasury secretary Larry Summers called the deepening life expectancy crisis, documented in recent surveys and studies, “the most disturbing set of data on America that I have encountered in a long time” and “especially scary remembering that demographics were the best early warning on the collapse of the U.S.S.R.” In many […]
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PARIS — Manil Hadjoudj was handing out fliers at the entrance to Sorbonne University, tirelessly repeating, “Do you care about electric scooters?” to passing students, most of whom seemed indifferent to his plea. “I care about our pension system right now,” one of them said without stopping. Mr. Hadjoudj, 18, had been hired by the […]
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For most of last year, thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the war. There they found refuge in a tropical paradise where locals rolled out the welcome mat for Ukrainians fleeing the shelling and Russians dodging the draft. Then, a Russian influencer scaled a 700-year-old sacred tree, […]
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A fiery crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway took the lives of five young people in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Westchester County Police Department. A sixth child, a 9-year-old boy who was riding in the cargo area of the Nissan Rogue that crashed, survived and was taken to Westchester Medical […]
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Arrest warrants have been issued for Jalen Carter, a potential top-five pick in the coming N.F.L. draft, in connection with a car crash in January that killed two people, including a University of Georgia teammate, hours after the team’s parade for winning the national championship. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said Wednesday that Carter, who […]
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Tomoko Ichihara’s family was wrapping up a birthday lunch near Mount Fuji when celebration turned to horror. A silver Toyota drifted across a road and careened into the parking lot of a noodle restaurant, crushing Ms. Ichihara’s brother-in-law and mother between cars and leaving them with fatal injuries. The minivan’s driver, a U.S. Navy lieutenant, […]
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Tesla is recalling more than 362,000 cars equipped with its Full Self-Driving driver-assistance system after government regulators found it increased the risk of accidents. The company’s technology, which can steer, accelerate, brake and change lanes on its own, allows vehicles to travel above legal speed limits and through intersections in “an unlawful or unpredictable manner,” […]
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Valerie Costa, 72, a neighbor, said Mr. Ye was a “calm quiet guy” who was “always helping around the house.” “I’m devastated,” she said. Most, if not all, of the victims on Monday were immigrants and people in working-class families, said Justin Brannan, a City Council member who represents Bay Ridge. The community was shocked […]
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A man driving a U-Haul box truck was arrested on Monday after he drove onto sidewalks and hit at least three people in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, the police said. The driver, whom the police had not identified by Monday early afternoon, had been stopped by officers around 10:50 a.m. He tried to […]
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In another time, in another place, the call to the police in Kyiv might have been dismissed as a crank. A resident living along the river had spotted a suspicious red light in the distance and was worried. In wartime Ukraine, the reason for the concern was obvious: It could be an agent of Moscow […]
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More than three years after Elon Musk stunned the auto industry with an electric pickup truck that looked more like a stealth fighter than a way to haul two-by-fours and drywall, Tesla said last week that it would begin building the vehicle by the end of 2023. The announcement has helped fuel a recovery in […]
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Her call center and others have alerted Apple to the issue. In mid-January, the company sent four representatives to observe Ms. Dummer and her team for a day; she said they had plenty of examples to show off. In a written statement, Alex Kirschner, an Apple spokesman, said, “We have been aware that in some […]
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