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

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.

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.

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.

Thousands of high-paying jobs in the state could be at risk if the funding that had been expected from congestion pricing is not restored, a new report says.

Michael Wilson, who writes about crime for the Metro desk, reported on a fire at a Manhattan cafe that could have been ruinous — had it not been for a passerby in a recycling truck.

The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, like similar institutions across the city, was consumed by strife over how to manage education about the conflict.

While many contested races had moderate and left-leaning Democrats squaring off, the deciding factor seemed to be the power of incumbency.

The congressman, who lost to George Latimer, was the first “squad” member to fall, in a painful defeat for the Democratic left.

John Mannion will challenge Representative Brandon Williams in what is considered one of the Democrats’ best hopes in the nation to flip a congressional seat.

Mr. Avlon, an author and former CNN personality, defeated Nancy Goroff, a retired chemistry professor, in a race in eastern Long Island.

Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a member of the House’s left-wing “squad,” was defeated by George Latimer in a race that exposed Democratic fissures.

Austin Amos assaulted a taxi driver in 2022 after he and a group of friends refused to pay the fare on a ride from Manhattan to Far Rockaway, Queens. Mr. Amos was 20 at the time.

The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.

The judge who oversaw Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial loosened the rules governing what Mr. Trump can say about it, and said his gag order would be lifted after his July 11 sentencing.

The play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.

District 15 dropped selective admissions for middle schools, and the schools are now more integrated than they were.

Representative Jamaal Bowman faces George Latimer in the state’s most-watched race, a costly contest that may speak to the Democratic Party’s direction.

The health care system has stockpiles of medicine and has worked out “a lot of the kinks” since the Covid pandemic. But experts still have some concerns about a bird flu outbreak.

Tyrese Haspil, 25, was convicted of murdering his former boss, the entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, and dismembering his body in 2020.

An aide to Senator Robert Menendez testified that she had been asked to consult with an Egyptian intelligence officer who had befriended Nadine Menendez.

Rush-hour commuters at Penn Station faced a shutdown of close to an hour, followed by extensive delays, after Amtrak investigated a report of a problem with overhead wires.

The majority-Republican Nassau County Legislature approved a bill that bars transgender athletes from playing at county-owned facilities on teams that match their gender identity.

Yvonne Wu was waiting inside her ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Brooklyn when she came home with a friend. Ms. Wu turned her service gun on the two women.

About 100 Israelis sued the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, saying it pays local employees in dollars that buoy the terrorist group. But the case faces high legal hurdles.

Stefan Alexandru Barabas, 38, pleaded guilty to extortion after threatening a multimillionaire in her Connecticut home in 2007.

As the city budget deadline looms, the targets of Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts are rallying their bases.

Mr. Bowman faces George Latimer in a House primary in New York that will test the party’s views on Israel and the strength of its left-wing faction.

Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses to rebut the government’s bribery case as early as Wednesday.

Standup scooters, electric unicycles, homemade contraptions of all sorts. New Yorkers have plenty of ways to get around.

Dao Yin, a candidate for the New York State Assembly, turned in donor cards that were missing phone numbers and email addresses. Some had forged signatures.

The 30-year-old man, Alejandro Piedra, is accused of attacking a woman and two men, one of whom died.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited a lack of evidence in deciding not to prosecute 31 of the 46 people charged in the takeover of Hamilton Hall.

More than eight million people in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont were under a tornado watch that expired on Sunday evening.

Birders and tourists flock to see a lone flamingo among the swans.

Several State Assembly contests have become contentious as the June 25 primary nears, with the party grappling between moderate and progressive forces.

Turning to a local institution in a pinch, a tip about Beethoven and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.

Da Silvano was a celebrity hangout, drawing boldface names like Madonna, Barry Diller and Yoko Ono. It was often referred to as the downtown Elaine’s.

Leaked images showed the trio sharing disparaging text messages during an alumni group discussion last month about Jewish life on campus.

As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders rallied with Jamaal Bowman on Saturday, three days before the primary on Tuesday.

Alejandro Ramirez was one of two men killed in Upper Manhattan on Father’s Day. A 16-year-old has been charged in the deaths.

Conflicts over the war have played out in protests, social media battles and a fight over flags on Fire Island during a time usually reserved for solidarity and celebration.

Lynn Bodnar Kelly, executive director of Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project, e-bikes through Brooklyn and roller skates to the beat of Beyoncé.

Authorities suspended their search Saturday for the boys, 16 and 17, who were last seen on Friday being overtaken by a large wave in the waters off Jacob Riis Park.