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His clients included antiwar protesters and terror suspects. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.

Twenty years after opening in Williamsburg, Catbird is expanding across America.

Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

Looking up in Inwood Hill Park, talking hip-hop on Bleecker Street and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

She makes children laugh during the week, but on Sundays it’s her turn to enjoy herself: movies, fancy treats and museum trips with her 6-year-old son.

Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.

In Williamsburg and Manhattan, robbers have stolen watches worth tens of thousands of dollars before fleeing on motorbikes.

A mysterious former Republican’s victory over Mondaire Jones in a third-party primary could help shape one of the nation’s most important congressional swing races this fall.

At least 11 people who were celebrating the July 4 holiday were struck by the truck on the Lower East Side, the authorities said.

Police officers arrived at a Jamaica apartment to find a 21-year-old man holding his father at knife point and an 8-year-old fatally wounded, officials said.

A cover band from Toronto brings some 2000s nostalgia to the home city of their indie rock heroes.

This week’s properties are in Sutton Place, Gramercy Park and Flatbush.

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Weston, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Stony Brook, N.Y.

Mr. Bertoletti won the title, succeeding the 16-time champion Joey Chestnut, who was barred from the July 4 spectacle. In the women’s contest, Miki Sudo ate 51 hot dogs, a record.

Despite highly publicized attacks, most major offenses are down. But quality-of-life problems tarnish the “Crossroads of the World,” the city says.

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is accused of a wide-ranging international bribery conspiracy. Jurors are likely to begin deliberating next week.

She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.

The film director grew up in Sweden with a love of American movies. Now he would like you to see his surreal debut, “Mother, Couch,” in a theater.

Despite pushback against a pilot program to provide the debit cards, the city expanded it, saying it saves money.

New York is trying to treat an addictive substance just like any other product.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and two other state entities owe $76.5 million in unpaid city water bills at a time when the city is raising water rates.

Global warming is hitting the entire Northeast particularly hard, according to figures provided by Climate Central, a nonprofit group.

Spice Brothers is a showcase for the power of cinnamon, turmeric and other flavors of the Middle East.

The one-minute commercial, which was created by a group formed by former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, seeks to bring attention to atrocities linked to Hamas.

In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and a longtime ally of Donald J. Trump, was at the center of the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.

Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Some lawmakers are trying to persuade Gov. Kathy Hochul to resurrect the program, which she stopped shortly before it was to begin.

City officials said a pilot program had reduced the costs of feeding migrants, and that fraud prevention measures were ensuring that the cards were being used properly.

Fireworks are coming back to the Hudson River for the first time in more than 10 years.

Christine Fields’s family was tight-knit. But after she died in childbirth, grief and the prospect of a multimillion-dollar settlement threatened to tear it apart.

A year’s worth of tolls is hard to picture. But what about an hour’s worth?

Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.

The Trump adviser was sentenced to four months for refusing to honor a subpoena from a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He rallied supporters in his last minutes of freedom.

Senator Robert Menendez’s sister testified that their father stored cash in a grandfather clock in Havana, Cuba.

The model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.

The campaign of Dao Yin, a Democratic candidate for State Assembly, submitted fake donations and forged signatures to obtain much of the matching funds he received.

A kerfuffle erupts over sharing the street in Queens, New York, where new bike lanes have replaced some parking spaces in residential areas.

After a second course of treatment, the tennis Hall of Famer is optimistic about life, and vocal about the importance of early testing.

In conversations, New York legislators have suggested a way to bring back the program, possibly with a toll below $15.

An officer in Utica, N.Y., fatally shot the boy, Nyah Mway, after he brandished what the officer believed was a gun. At a community meeting, residents called the killing “an injustice.”

The passengers, including a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old, had traveled to Cooperstown for a baseball tournament, the authorities said.

The New York City Pride March, now in its 54th year, attracted tens of thousands in Manhattan. It was interrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

In New York’s suburban and rural communities, where L.G.B.T.Q. people can feel more isolated, Pride events often hold special meaning.

Stopping for food in the Bronx, a windy day on Third Avenue and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Officers in Utica, N.Y., believed the boy had brandished a handgun. The police chief said on Saturday that it was a pellet gun.

The police say the man was driving while intoxicated and ran his S.U.V. into the salon, killing four people and injuring 10. His own injuries were not life-threatening.

Rising cocaine use and a drug supply tainted by fentanyl have become a deadly combination in Erie County, which includes Buffalo.

Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.

Officials did not immediately say what caused the crash, in Deer Park. Nine people were also injured.

He carved out a niche by singing the music of living composers from his own country. He was praised by critics at home and abroad.

Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached a $112 billion budget deal that restored some unpopular cuts to key programs.

The state said that former President Donald J. Trump’s felony convictions may mean he does not have the moral character to serve drinks.

After seven weeks of trial, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez are expected to begin calling witnesses on Monday to rebut the government’s case.

Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to call witnesses who will describe his childhood and the rocky start to his relationship with his wife.

The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.

One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.

Behind the opaque process that just selected the next pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church.

The number of people older than 65 who are living in shelters is growing quickly, in an unheralded sign of New York City’s affordable housing crisis.

While his peers were building Modernist towers, the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi devoted his life to restoring beautiful old buildings.

The authorities were searching for the detainee, a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness, after he eluded two guards at Bellevue Hospital Center.

The watch, which was stolen in 1987, was returned Thursday to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site on Long Island.

The City Council successfully pushed to reverse budget cuts that Mayor Eric Adams had proposed to libraries, cultural institutions and composting.

A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.

Officials of the two transit agencies met in an impromptu meeting on Thursday called by New Jersey’s governor, Philip D. Murphy.

A scramble for the Infowars host’s meager assets pits Sandy Hook victims’ families against one another in court.

The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.

“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.

Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.

This week’s properties are in NoMad, the East Village and Park Slope.

This week’s properties are waterfront homes in Massapequa, N.Y., and Margate, N.J.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt the toll program could result in billions of dollars of cuts to planned subway improvements and the loss of over 100,000 jobs, according to new estimates.

New census numbers show the steepest drop in the city’s youngest age group in at least a decade as many families have left to live elsewhere.

Court papers said the “youth development specialists” took more than $50,000 in bribes to allow in items like razor blades, marijuana, alcohol and prescription pills.

Juan Orlando Hernández connived with traffickers as his country became a base of operations for cocaine shipments to the United States.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it is making drastic cuts to the transit system’s capital plan after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s halted the tolling program.

Hitting New York’s East Village with Sabrina Fuentes, the 24-year-old frontwoman of the band Pretty Sick.

Mr. Bowman’s win in 2020 seemed to herald an ascendant progressive movement. In 2024, the center is regaining power.

The man who walked a high wire between the World Trade Center towers is now 75.