Police officers at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Saturday.
The catastrophic events in Paris on Friday put law enforcement agencies on heightened alert, and left people waking up to the weekend in the city coping with a creeping sense of dread.
The Peking, a steel windjammer built in 1911 in Germany, is returning from New York City to its home country after the German government allocated 30 million euros to make the journey possible.
Some elderly New Yorkers receive too much income to be eligible for assistance, but not enough to pay for the services they need.
Emporiums of plant-based medicines offer products for what ails the mind, body and soul, even though scientific studies about their efficacy are inconclusive.
For over a decade, Jonathan Glass has taken his pen and paper around New York’s jazz clubs to sketch his favorite musicians in action.
For Mr. Calise, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since 1994, the effort to make New York City’s public spaces more accessible never stops.
The identities of the victims in Paris began to emerge slowly on Saturday, but families continued to struggle to find information about missing loved ones.
Federal prosecutors spent three weeks presenting evidence against the reputed mobster. His fast acquittal could signal a change in public feeling toward Mafia informants.
Residents of Canastota, N.Y. were stunned and angry after four championship belts that belonged to Carmen Basilio, a native who won titles in the 1950s, were stolen from the International Boxing Hall of Fame in town.
The increases awarded to rank-and-file officer, which cover 2010 and 2011, were deemed “an insult” by their union’s president.
With its shelter system overburdened, the city has resorted to placing some families in hotels on Staten Island, far from the schools they had been attending.
David Sweat pleaded guilty to three felony counts stemming from the carefully planned escape from Clinton Correctional Facility that he and a fellow inmate, Richard W. Matt, staged in June.
Michael Terry survived many troubles and hardships, including being homeless and assaulted by a member of the clergy, but he remains focused on making his dreams come true.
Long Island high school experimenters and professionals alike are finding that remote-control aerial shots, like of a fisherman’s expression from the ocean side, can expand their perspectives.
Francisco A. Alsina, 23, was arrested on Thursday after the authorities tracked him to a home about 180 miles from New York City.
Thomas Vinciguerra explores the wit of Wolcott Gibbs along with other eccentric writers of The New Yorker, and Michael Vecchione vividly recalls a case of corrupt cops.
The conversation involving Mr. Silver, at the time the New York Assembly speaker, touched on the fees he got from Glenwood Management’s limited liability companies.
The Museum of the American Gangster, located in a building in the East Village that once held a brothel and a popular speakeasy, details the crime scene fueled by Prohibition.
A renewed conversation about limiting smoking in multiple-unit dwellings could at least get things moving toward the right place.
For more than 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York. An article will appear daily through Jan. 22 to highlight the help given to people in need.
Julio Mattos, 15, had become sullen and withdrawn, a result, in part, of constant bullying. A local boxing gym has helped him manage his frustrations.
This week: A co-op board steers clear of a squabble among residents; a business is run out of a residential home; and a wish for a backyard cabana.
This week’s properties include a five-bedroom in Hamilton, N.J., and a four-bedroom in Lloyd Neck, N.Y.
Rising home prices are raising equity levels, and homeowners are cashing in on these gains.
The actress Camryn Manheim has a long-held loft on the Lower East Side.
When it opened in 1986, its stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights was known for dive bars, but the wine shop slowly built a relationship with local residents.
The intricate fungi often surprise hikers in sun-scorched pine or oak woods like those at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
Every Sunday in the Metropolitan section, a photographer offers a new slice of New York.
Law enforcement must embrace innovations like body cameras.
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