New York City

Eight candidates to be the next mayor of New York City — the country's largest metropolis — sparred over housing, homelessness and education Wednesday evening in the third and final debate before next week's Democratic primary. Many of the candidates tried to land punches on their opponents in a final…

Eight Democrats vying to be New York City’s next mayor sparred over the most pressing issues facing the nation’s largest city on Wednesday in the final debate of the Democratic primary. The two-hour showdown presented the candidates with one last chance to make an impression on New Yorkers before voters head…

Lisa Banes, popularly known for her role Marybeth Elliott in Gone Girl, passed on Monday ten days of battle followed a hit-and-run driver in New York City. According to BCC, New York Police confirmed that Banes was hit by a scooter as she walked across a pedestrian crossing in Manhattan…

Bon Iver, Jorja Smith, Khruangbin and Miguel are among the artists that have been tapped to develop new installations for Undercurrent, a new music and art platform that launched Tuesday, June 15th. Undercurrent was founded by Steve Milton and Brett Volker, who, per a release, wanted to unite musicians, artists,…

For every New Yorker who fled the city during the pandemic, many more never left the five boroughs. For months, like people all over the country, we hunkered down in our apartments, and our worlds got a lot smaller. During the first wave of the pandemic, the city’s parks became…

Ray McGuire is a former Wall Street executive who is running for New York City mayor. McGuire wants to enact a job accelerator program that would bring back 50,000 positions at small businesses. As a political outsider, he says that he would bring a fresh perspective to City Hall. Sign…

A 1-month-old girl and her 2-year-old brother are in the hospital after their mother threw them out of the window of a second-floor apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday before jumping herself, police said. New York City police said they rushed to the building on Rockaway Parkway around 11:24…

Congratulations are in order for the Sussexes! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their second child, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.  The baby girl is named after Queen Elizabeth II, whose nickname is Lilibet, and Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana.  Also on Sunday, Balenciaga showed its Spring 2022 collection, featuring ominous…

A New York City psychoanalyst is facing backlash after publishing a report that calls whiteness a “malignant, parasitic-like condition” without a “permanent cure.”  Dr. Donald Moss, an author who teaches at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, published “On Having Whiteness” last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.…

Like flowers, trees and other living things, movies have seasons, and as originally conceived, they weren’t meant to be beamed into our climate-controlled living rooms. Our engagement with them ideally incorporates some sort of leaving-the-house preamble—bundling up on a wintry day, or grabbing an umbrella in case of rain. This…