Demonstrators marched around Manhattan in response to a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner.
Spurred by the absence of an indictment in the Eric Garner case, demonstrators take to the streets in a bid to disrupt New York City’s rhythms.
The Brooklyn district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, said on Friday he wanted to convene a grand jury in the case of the Brooklyn man killed by a police officer in a public housing stairwell.
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in London last month.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — Prince William and Kate Middleton — are expected to arrive on Sunday, with stops planned at a children’s center in Harlem and a Nets game in Brooklyn.
Jermaine Archer, an inmate at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, was the M.C.
The event, an offshoot of the TED Talks conference series, was a showcase for felons who are continuing their studies while at the Ossining, N.Y., prison.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, right, in Calgary, Alberta, with Jim Prentice, the premier of Alberta, on Thursday.
Details show that Gov. Chris Christie and his advisers were increasingly anxious about the damage that could result from the scandal surrounding the George Washington Bridge lane closings.
Ella Cheng, who has been involved with student government, defeated Will Gansa, who ran a joke campaign focused on culinary changes.
Yolanda Gonzalez was arrested in October 2013 on charges that she stole nearly $900,000 from We Stay/Nos Quedamos, a housing and social service organization founded by her mother.
In selecting a group led by Michael Capasso, the board of the bankrupt opera passed over proposals including those by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Purchase College.
Construction of the estuarium, which will occupy the end of the 840-foot pier between North Moore and Hubert Streets, is expected to begin in 2017.
A tactic used by federal officials working with the New York Police Department and the State Police has prompted concerns about allowing heavily armed suspects to enter dense areas of the city.
Participants in the federal Section 8 voucher program who live alone in a one-bedroom unit no longer have to move to studio apartments.
Louis Scarcella, a former New York City police detective, testified on Thursday to defend his actions in a 1988 homicide case.
December 5, 2014
A duplex penthouse on the Upper East Side, with five bedrooms and views of Central Park, was the sale of the week.
December 5, 2014
Metropolitan Diary: A woman wondered if she had done the right thing in giving a homeless-looking man money for a Chinese meal.
Facebook, smartphones and a Domino’s app were the tools of a Brooklyn credit card fraud that went far beyond extra toppings.
Grand juries, like the one that declined to indict a police officer in the killing of Eric Garner on Staten Island, rarely indict in cases involving police officers who have killed civilians.
With the support of friends August Montalbano has made through his Alcoholics Anonymous group, he has been able to keep a positive outlook in life.
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. 23 to highlight the help given to people in need.
For his installation “Tears Become ... Streams Become ...,” which features piano concerts by Hélène Grimaud, the artist Douglas Gordon has made the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall a vast pool.
A historian has uncovered the tantalizing remains of ornate ceramics that graced a balconied boutique and stairway in Lord & Taylor’s glory days.
For those who can’t get enough Picasso (and his muses), there are two shows in New York right now, at the Pace Gallery and Gagosian.
Santiago Taveras, once the public face for many school closings during the Bloomberg years, is now working on turning around the troubled DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
As eulogies go, the final showcase at Death by Audio, a D.I.Y. Williamsburg club, was a kicker, loud and sweaty and appropriately raucous.
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