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A pilot program to replace subway turnstiles with high-tech entry gates has led to a major reduction in fare evasion, New York transit officials said, and 50 more stations will soon have them.
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
The university hired Sally Yates, a career federal prosecutor, to investigate how it handled a former student’s claim she was raped in 2024.
Burmese Bites has traveled a three-decade road, from street fairs to a market stall to this Astoria spot where the fine-tuned cooking enthralls.
The musical, which underwhelmed critics but attracted audiences while touring for years, has been significantly overhauled.
The administration has shifted its enforcement of a civil rights law from allegations of sexual misconduct to issues like blocking protections for transgender students.
Some privacy advocates say the cameras, intended to pick up muffler noise, loud music and horns, could be used to listen to just about anything.
The proposed New York City legislation would also allow nonprofits, including tenants’ unions, to sue companies directly rather than relying on agency enforcement.
The faculty senate plans to vote on a rare resolution of no confidence over the handling of sexual assault allegations. On Tuesday, some faculty members criticized the university president’s latest comments.
The state has had 108 cases this year, the most since 2019. The declaration comes amid a national resurgence of the highly contagious viral illness.
A New York City Council hearing on artificial intelligence yielded few answers or assurances about how the industry would provide safeguards against catastrophic scenarios.
The powerful anesthetic has gained popularity as a party drug, including among a certain social set on the university’s campus.
Daniel Fish’s staging of a C-SPAN segment reveals the complex yet tender relationship between the fiery Larry Kramer and the diplomatic Anthony Fauci.
In the first large gathering on campus since revelations about sexual assault allegations, students and faculty members convened outside an administration building that had been the target of vandalism overnight.
American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at the zoo.
The veteran rapper and actor reprises his longtime “NCIS: Los Angeles” role of Sam Hanna for the procedural’s new spinoff.
The actor, now 51, is reprising his Tony-nominated role on Broadway, as an older, wiser Washington.
For a city as diverse as New York, the school system is one of the most segregated in the United States.
Eleven members of a church group were hurt, including the 16-year-old driver of the tractor pulling the cart, in a crash in upstate New York.
The chain, which began as a shop in Astoria, Queens, and expanded as far as Texas, closed all locations on Friday.
As the weekend arrived, much of the nightlife in the upstate New York college town was subdued. But there were still some students looking to cut loose.
Big porches are a staple in parts of Brooklyn. During the height of the pandemic, one homeowner launched a concert series to build community and help musicians.
The decision to intercede by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has raised questions of impartiality as both face re-election.
Accusations of sexual assault at a fraternity party have tarnished the self-image of a fiercely proud Ivy League institution. Can the university ever be the same?
This six-story building in the East Village has long been colorful, but its most recent refresh was inspired by New York City.
A bear hug by the East River, a familiar frame under a streetlight and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Summaries obtained by The New York Times offer a detailed look at the discipline meted out to the men accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at Cornell University.
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
New York City lawmakers say many vendors are misleading tourists who seek an up-close experience, and they want to tighten enforcement. Sellers say they are serving a market.
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
As a special prosecutor, Ms. James has wide powers over the handling of the investigation, but legal experts say the case comes with potential obstacles.
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Letitia James, the attorney general, to investigate the original allegations and why a police report omitted crucial information.
A panel found the man responsible for attempted sexual exploitation, barred him from contact with the woman and required him to take a class and write a paper.
There were cascading ribbons, a flower crown and a “Landslide”-inspired performance at the New York City Ballet’s annual fall fashion gala.
“In what world would the police” not elevate allegations of a rape to the district attorney, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York asked.
The New York Times has reviewed a trove of documents related to the case. Our reporter explains what we know.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has named a special investigator, Letitia James, as the allegations of rape in a fraternity house become part of a national conversation about sexual assault and consent.
Experts in sexual assault cases said it may not be easy to win a conviction on the rape allegations that Jane Doe has made against fraternity members.
Accusations that Cornell University students assaulted a woman while she was impaired have renewed calls to amend the law.
Our reporter Emma Goldberg visits the Cornell University campus to speak with students after prosecutors reopened the case of a woman who said she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024. None of the accused men have been charged with a crime, and all have denied wrongdoing.
Through tears, some students shared stories of assaults they had experienced, while others spoke out to criticize administrators and demand improved training on consent.
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state attorney general to investigate a former Cornell University student’s allegation of rape. The woman has sued seven men in connection with the alleged assault.
Times editors explore the thinking behind our coverage of the explosive allegations that have roiled a campus and the country.
The charges against the Massachusetts man were not the first time the Miller family has raised concerns about its security.
More than 1,000 pages of documents obtained by The New York Times show how a woman identified as Jane Doe gradually concluded that what had happened to her at a fraternity party was a crime.
An internal police report referred to the man charged in the killing, which happened in Queens during the evening rush hour, as emotionally disturbed.
The communications were revealed as part of a lawsuit challenging the rent freeze on rent-stabilized units in New York City, which went into effect on Thursday.
Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed and sometimes contradictory. All the men denied any wrongdoing.
Many alumni and some prospective parents are rethinking their relationships with Cornell. But as one admissions consultant said, “Prestige is a powerful draw.”
The show, “a live radio play,” will run during this year’s holiday season. The cast includes Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty, Tituss Burgess, Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna.
“I’m so happy here. Honestly,” Gustavo Dudamel, the superstar conductor, said at the New York Philharmonic’s season-opening gala on Wednesday.
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
Andrew Scott stars in a “Sea Wall” being captured for the screen, and “In the Heights” gets a gala revival as New York City stages approach their autumn peak.
Andrew Rose Gregory thinks the exit is the worst place in the city. He put his thoughts into music.
The machines have conquered Jersey City’s sidewalks, and Hoboken is the next target. But skepticism about artificial intelligence has forced the robot horde to proceed with caution.
The New York Times obtained more than 1,000 pages from the university’s internal inquiry into accusations by “Jane Doe.” Here are the revelations so far.
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
Some City Council members are losing an informal veto power over new projects in their districts after voters approved a measure aimed at eliminating roadblocks to development.
The university and law enforcement officials are under growing pressure to explain how they handled a woman’s initial claims of being assaulted by a group of students.
State law makes it harder to prosecute when victims drank willingly. The prosecutor in the Cornell case said that kept him from charging students accused of sexual assault.
With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
The former New York governor bought a compound on the South Shore of Long Island in June that includes a nine-bedroom main house, a guesthouse and a tennis court.
Bills before the City Council would regulate the pedicabs, which often play loud songs outside theaters during performances.
In her play about a group of very online incels, Else Went reveals what happens to their rabid rhetoric when these people are offered love.
Lawmakers on Wednesday reviewed a record number of proposals to regulate the use of electric bikes and scooters, after a series of fatal crashes.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
After the New York State Education Department denied a request from U.S. News for A.P. scores, perennially top-ranked schools plummeted.
More than two dozen people have died in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters in New York City this year. Officials are moving to address a growing safety crisis.
A judge added to confusion over a tax on high-end second homes, also known as pieds-à-terre, when he ordered the city to scrap and restart the rollout of the tax.
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to the police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he was now reaching out to her.
Prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a former student’s claims that several men sexually assaulted her in a campus fraternity house.
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The actor Jacob Ming-Trent faced numerous rejections. But in this solo play at the Public, he tells how he found redemption through the playwright’s worlds and words.
Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn will not seek another term after the party was thrown into chaos after disputed rule changes.
A report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has appointed the New York attorney general, Letitia James, to lead an investigation into allegations that a woman was raped on campus in 2024.
The man, a 57-year-old from Brooklyn, was pulled by the train and found near the tracks at the Utica Avenue station.
The company said that Candyrific of Louisville, Ky., will produce the jelly candy that comes in a rainbow of colors and citrus flavors and is used in Jewish traditions.
She had to settle for the kitchen as her studio but Lee Krasner finally gets her share of the spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Floyd Bennett Field is somewhat remote and underused. A nonprofit has big plans for the site.
Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.
Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.
Marshall BioResources, in western New York, is the nation’s largest breeder of dogs for biomedical research. It is facing a campaign against using animals for that purpose.
Jocelyn Bioh’s breakthrough 2017 play about cliques and colorism is just as funny — and devastating — with a sharp ensemble and direction by Whitney White.
Representative Mike Lawler, a vulnerable Republican in a suburban New York district, faced Cait Conley, a military veteran, for the first time onstage.
Another man was arrested in connection with the attack, which occurred at a shelter in Washington Heights for people dealing with mental illness and substance abuse.
New York State officials have yet to say what caused a fire that killed Marcos Alcaraz at Eastern Correctional Facility in July.
After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.
Students at CUNY who were eligible were chosen at random to receive the OMNY passes in a City Council pilot program.
We talked to 34 concertgoers about the time, money and effort they spent getting tickets for the star’s New York City residency.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is counting on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to help her campaign in New York, but how he does so is still being worked out.
Several New York City cabbies were recently found dead in their cars. A taxi union is seeking to revive a fund that would provide medical screenings, disability insurance and other benefits.
Public records show police officers used Flock Safety’s technology to make more than 1,700 searches. The department did not have a contract with the company.
In a debate with the Democrat Rebecca Bennett, the New Jersey Republican said he was willing to take on the president over funding for a Hudson River tunnel project.
The weekend’s storm is expected to continue to bring rain and the threat of floods to parts of the northern East Coast through the beginning of the week.
The weekend’s storm is expected to continue to bring rain and the threat of floods to parts of the northern East Coast through the beginning of the week.
The Tony- and Emmy-winning actor will portray the Devil in a new production of the 1955 musical, performing alongside Julianne Hough and Austin Scott.