New York City

It was gray out as I walked down Third Avenue toward the place where we had chosen to meet. As I continued on, a thin rain splashed down and gusts snapped at my jacket. I was dodging pieces of paper and other flying material whipped up by the wind. I…

By 2010, Mr. Hossein said, he had no rental income. He had also been forced to close his small convenience store after losing his lease. I couldnt afford the mortgage, he said, adding that he later lost the home in foreclosure. After 2010, I would never go o…

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, campaigning in New Hampshire, joked that she would also be announcing a multimillion ad buy. No, Im not, she said, with a laugh. We are running this in a grass-roots fashion. Im not going to be able to compete with the mon…

Manny Jacinto, a star of the metaphysical sitcom The Good Place, would like to be the kind of actor who does his own stunts. He isnt. After you get hit four or five times, you say, No, O.K., lets get the stunt double, he said. But on a bleak Sunday…

The new legislation, which is expected to be passed by the City Council on Tuesday, includes menthol-flavored products; the only vaping liquid that would be allowed for sale are tobacco-flavored products. The bill would then go to Mayor Bill de Blasio to sign…

Courtesy of Kaye Blegvad A flooded subway entrance stopped Brooklyn commuters in their tracks yesterday. For four hours on Wednesday, the staircase leading down to Broadway Station in Williamsburg was blocked off and completely submerged. The sight was even s…

Because by May of 2020, they must submit their latest annual energy-use data, which comes from the utility companies that service them, to an online tool created by the Environmental Protection Agency. The tool will calculate greenhouse emissions and take int…

Approximately 23.5 million people in the US live in food deserts -- areas that lack affordable and healthy food -- according to Lyft, and 2.5 million live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket. So far, the company has provi…

Not everyone is pleased with the citys final report New York City has released its long-awaited report on government algorithms, but not everyone is happy with the result. In 2017, the city passed a local law to national fanfare. The legislation, Local Law…

At the same time, the city, for the first time, permitted parking on streets overnight. The city also considered, and rejected, a $60-a-month fee for overnight parking on the streets (equivalent to about $640 now). Samuel I. Schwartz, who was the citys tr…