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Mom-and-Pop Dollar Stores Fight to Survive as Chains Move In As big retailers like Dollar Tree expand in New York City, independent stores are changing inventory and emphasizing their local roots. But some still fail.
The Blackout of 1977: A Trip Through the Archives It has been 40 years since the New York City blackout of 1977. Visit The New York Times’s archive — known as the morgue — to see how we covered two…
Mayor Offers Million Plan to Ice Some Rats. Hopefully. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan would use dry ice to suffocate rats in their burrows and bar some buildings in rat strongholds from leaving trash out overnight.
Metropolitan Diary: Murky Puddle and a Muddled Mind Reflections on a pool of water and an angry conversation.
Girl Scouts Troop Will Expand to 15 Homeless Shelters Troop 6000, established in February at a homeless shelter in Queens, is expected to serve about 500 girls throughout New York City.
First, a Symbol of Occupy Wall Street. Then He Waded Into Syria. Robert Grodt was an activist at the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. Five years later, he traveled to Syria, where he died after joining a Kurdish militia.
Scouting Report: A Week of Pop-Ups, Sales and Other Shopping Events In the Hamptons, summer pop-ups; in the city, a fresh start at Dover Street Market, a flurry of end-of-season sales and more.
Boîte: The East Village Cocktail Bar Elsa Reopens in Cobble Hill Closed three years ago in the East Village, the bright and airy bar and its patrons are back, now on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
Memories of the Night New York City Went Dark Readers shared their memories of the New York City blackout of 1977, stories of both chaos in the streets and kindness among neighbors.
Critic's Notebook: Real New York Shows From Raf Simons and Todd Snyder A Belgian innovator and an Iowa-born traditionalist see to it that New York Fashion Week: Men’s honors its setting.
Accusations and Rancor as Elite School’s Leader Departs A longtime principal at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School abruptly retired after a battle with the head of the school involving its program dealing with race. The end of the school year…
Party Coverage: Scene City: Raf Simons and Todd Snyder Host Parties for Men’s Fashion Week Among those spotted at the parties were André 3000, Sean O’Pry, Luka Sabbat and Humberto Leon.
7 Frank Lloyd Wright Windows to Go Home A newly restored house in Buffalo by Frank Lloyd Wright receives a bountiful stained-glass gift from the University of Victoria in Canada.
For Fashion Week, an Archivist Comes Down From the Attic For the designer Emily Adams Bode, the shock of the new is worth less than the thrill of the old.