New York City to Offer SAT Free to 11th-Grade Students
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
The change, which will take effect in the spring of the 2016-17 school year, is intended to encourage more students to apply to college.
The change, which will take effect in the spring of the 2016-17 school year, is intended to encourage more students to apply to college.
Near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn. An estimated 3,000 people survive on sidewalks, in subways and in encampments in parks and beneath overpasses in New York City.
The mayor’s long-term strategy to combat homelessness, a problem whose magnitude he has called “unacceptable,” has not kept pace with the flow of women, men and children streaming into shelters.
Catholics in New York reflected on divorce and communion after a statement issued by an assembly of bishops in the Vatican.
Dr. Tisch, who has been New York State’s highest education official since 2009, announced she would leave at the end of her term in March.
The ride-hailing service, which is hoping for legislation that will allow it to operate in upstate college towns and other areas outside New York City, says it can help reduce drunken driving.
New York State offered $750 million in incentives to SolarCity to locate its GigaFactory in Buffalo, which has promised to create 5,000 jobs.
The worker, 45, was shot after a dispute with three men inside the store in the University Heights neighborhood.
State Senator Adriano Espaillat announced a proposal calling on the New York State Liquor Authority to impose a one-year moratorium on new liquor licenses in the neighborhood.
The events honoring a slain officer, Randolph Holder, have brought together Guyanese residents, who represent the fifth-largest immigrant group in New York.
The gun, which officials believe was used in the shooting of Officer Randolph Holder last week, was found roughly 100 feet from where divers recovered a magazine hours after the shooting, officials said.
The Catholic social activist lived on a serene plot near the bay on Staten Island. Now that her cottages are gone, a commission must decide if the site deserves a landmark designation.
Years after falling in love with a radio show theme song, a man befriends the composer and his wife — and sees his memories committed to canvas.
Sample exotic foods at a cultural program at the Japan Society in New York; cranberry wreaths; kid-friendly utensils; and more.
An opening in a kitchen island leads to a hidden garbage can below for quick disposal of scraps.
Mr. Murphy drew inspiration from such varied sources as the sound of his hometown factory whistle and the words of the Beat novelist Jack Kerouac.
“BOSSS” is an attempt to dip a toe back into the rippling waters of environmental staging, this time at Hudson River Park.
In Chelsea and other neighborhoods like it, dizzying economic transformations because of an influx of wealth have affected the residents of less means in both obvious and insidious ways.
Terra Firma, in the South Bronx, offers an unusual blend of legal help and therapy for unaccompanied, traumatized children who crossed from Mexico to the United States.
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If you have lived in a certain strata in New York, no matter the decade, it’s likely you have encountered an Undine Spragg — a ruthless socialite and social climber. Spragg is at the center of Edith Wharton’s classic novel, “The Custom of the Country,” which we will be reading as our next selection for the Big City Book Club.
On hand for our live discussion will be a modern-day chronicler of patrician Manhattan habit, Lisa Birnbach, author of “The Preppy Handbook,” among other books. Join us online on Nov. 10 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Sam Roberts takes an inside look at the most compelling articles in Sunday’s Times at 10 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. on Sundays, on NY1 News.
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