New York City

New York City FC are heading to the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for the ninth time in 11 seasons, thanks to a 2-0 win against Charlotte FC on Saturday. In their first season under head coach Pascal Jansen, NYCFC have developed one of the league's top defenses. Their 35 goals…

Are you squeakin’ at me? Big Apple rats are just as social as some New Yorkers — and even sound like them, speaking to each other with a distinctive accent, a new study found. “Being social helps them survive . . . in some ways, you could call New York City an…

5 fun places to take your kids in New York this weekend ahead of Child Health Day Synopsis New York City welcomes autumn with a host of family-friendly activities, coinciding with Child Health Day. Explore Climate Fest at the American Museum of Natural History, offering hands-on science and sustainability projects.…

September 19, 2025 4:18 PM ET The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN) on Friday afternoon. The upper chamber approved Waltz’s confirmation in a near party-line vote of 47 to 43, just in time for…

Police arrested more than a dozen New York state and city elected officials Thursday at 26 Federal Plaza, the Manhattan immigration court and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, many as they pressed to gain access to the building’s 10th-floor lockup, where recent court rulings—including a temporary restraining…

September 18, 2025 6:00 PM ET Federal officers arrested 11 Democratic elected officials in Lower Manhattan on Thursday after they demanded access to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding rooms. The sit-ins unfolded hours after a federal judge ordered ICE to improve conditions at the 10th-floor holding area at 26 Federal…

Economy / September 18, 2025 Trump’s brand of authoritarianism emerges out of New York City’s real estate industry. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani vows to curb that sector’s outsized power. A fight is coming. Donald Trump, real estate mogul, poses in the foyer of his home in August 1987 in Greenwich,…

Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and patronizes trash cans like they’re Restaurant Row. A new field study watched them the way New Yorkers…

BROOKLYN, New York — When people imagine what nature looks like, this probably wouldn’t be it. On an overcast afternoon in August, I stood next to a strip of plants between the sidewalk and the street in Central Brooklyn, no more than a block from a six-lane highway. An ambulance…

Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ It has been quite a week for embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams.  After a term full of indictments, defiant “earring-wearing swagger,” an extraordinary reversal from the Justice Department, and even potato chip bags filled with cash, Adams’ chances of…