Sunday Routine: How Arline Jacoby, Artist, Spends Her Sundays The 30-year resident of Roosevelt Island reads the obits, talks to her favorite plant, swims, gardens and makes art.
Posts published in “New York City”
New York Today: New York Today: Mysterious Mailboxes Friday: A peek into the Postal Service, your weekend lineup, and the James A. Farley Post Office Building.
Extreme Commuting The number of people who commute two hours or more to work is expected to grow, especially now that it is easier to work occasionally from home.
Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’ For women in New York’s poorer neighborhoods, the threat that a child will be removed to foster care for little cause is a grim reality.
Another Williams Takes His Turn Before the Camera, at SNY Doug Williams, a sportscaster, acknowledges he is not as well known as his father, Brian, or sister, Allison. “I enjoy being the ‘other one,’” he says.
About New York: In the Bronx, Fighting for the Right to Play Through community effort, a street for fun and games, a summer tradition cut by City Hall, reopened in time for hot summer days.
Years After Son’s Killing on Busy Street, Trial Brings Mother No Solace Lloyd McKenzie is accused of orchestrating the 2012 killing of Brandon Woodard in Midtown Manhattan, but the trial did not reveal who pulled the trigger.
Metropolitan Diary: Picking Up the Tab An offhand remark at an Upper East Side bistro pays dividends.
M.T.A. Chief Calls on New York City to Give More to Help Subway System Joseph Lhota’s comments came on the heels of another acrimonious exchange between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Our Jersey Boy Being the Garden State’s correspondent for the Metro desk can at times feel like being a far-flung foreign correspondent.
Album: Coney Island, Ever Changing The photographer Lauren Welles sees a tableau of collective escape on the beach.
Kenneth Jay Lane, Jewelry Designer Who Made a Fortune Faking It, Dies at 85 Over six decades, Mr. Lane built a global business by making it acceptable and chic for women to wear glittering jewelry of unabashed deception.
F.Y.I.: Did Firefighters Start or End 1863 Draft Riots — or Both? Members of the Black Joke engine company had reason to be angry, but whether they were among the rioters is a subject of dispute.
City Councilman Convicted of Stealing Thousands in Public Funds Ruben W. Wills was convicted of using more than half of a $33,000 state grant earmarked for single parents and obesity prevention on personal shopping sprees.
In an East Harlem Park, Valentine or Voodoo? A stylized heart in a park in East Harlem looks very much like a voodoo icon used to summon a god, according to occult experts.