The halting effort to transform struggling New York City hotels into much-needed affordable housing appears to be moving forward, at long last: An airport hotel in Queens is set to be turned into a housing development with more than 300 units. The project, made public by developers on Wednesday, is the first under a 2021 […]
New York City, where sidewalks have long been overrun by foul-smelling heaps of garbage bags that force passers-by to yield to oncoming rat traffic, is about to try a not-so-novel idea to solve the problem. The concept, known as trash containerization, seems simple enough: Get trash off the streets and into containers. The strategy has […]
A mechanic was charged with criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday in the death of an apprentice who was crushed when an elevator car plunged six stories during a maintenance operation. Prosecutors said the mechanic, Peter Milatz, 67, did not follow proper safety procedures before or during the operation, which caused the elevator car to free-fall […]
A Minnesota man was arrested and charged with arson after fires at two Minneapolis mosques last week, federal prosecutors announced on Sunday. The suspect, Jackie Rahm Little, 36, was also accused of a series of acts of vandalism in January, including to a police vehicle assigned to a Somali officer, a shopping center known as […]
Speaking recently to the city’s power brokers at the Real Estate Board of New York’s annual gala, Mayor Eric Adams tried to make the case that his administration had conquered some of the city’s most vexing problems. He had swept homeless encampments off the street and flooded the subways with police officers. Tourists were returning […]
Seven bodies were found on a piece of property in rural Oklahoma on Monday afternoon during a search for two teenage girls who had been reported missing and were said to have been seen with a convicted sex offender, according to officials with the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office. None of the seven victims were identified, […]
Immigration officials revealed on Monday that a fugitive Mexican national accused of killing five neighbors over the weekend had previously been deported four times. Even as he remained at large and the target of an extensive manhunt, the case seemed sure to reignite the bitter national debates over immigration policy and gun control. It began […]
RANCHO PALOS VERDES — On a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean in a wealthy community 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a patch of land is the last vestige of a way of life that has otherwise disappeared. Perched above a coastal highway and a luxury resort, the land, Hatano Farm, was once home […]
Last April, Jack Reid, a 17-year-old junior at one of the nation’s elite boarding schools, tucked a Bible into his gym shorts and a note into his pocket directing his parents to a Google document explaining his feelings of despair. Then, inside his dorm room, he took his own life. On Sunday, the anniversary of […]
Predictions Dear Diary: One evening last spring, my husband and I were strolling in the Village after having dinner out. I was about five months pregnant at the time. As we walked, we passed two women sitting on folding chairs outside a psychic’s storefront with a table of cards and candles between them. “August,” one […]