New York City

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…

Both prominent center-left Democrats and President Trump seem wary of Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor of New York City. But their motives are different, says TNR’s Monica Potts. In the latest edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon , Potts argues that Trump sees former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani’s main opponent,…

The daughter of a firefighter who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks shared a special moment with his former colleagues as she got married. Kristin Marino exited the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday to meet her father Kenneth's colleagues waiting for her in front of…