New York

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the idea of having an open Democratic convention where candidates would compete for the nomination was “crazy.”

By Nicholas Fandos

J. Michael Cline was the co-founder of an online ticketing company that changed how Americans went to the movies.

By Annie Correal

By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.

By Will Heinrich

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Ossining, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Redding, Conn.

By Anne Mancuso and Alicia Napierkowski

This week’s properties are on the Upper East Side, in Sutton Place and Bedford Stuyvesant.

By Heather Senison

The Irish bar was opened in Manhattan 57 years ago. The building on East 57th Street has been sold.

By James Barron

Edwin Cordero, 36, died at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where his lawyer said conditions were “awful.”

By Lola Fadulu

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was found guilty on Tuesday in a sweeping corruption scheme and faces a potential expulsion vote.

By Nicholas Fandos and Tracey Tully

The stegosaurus had been expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million. It set a record in the contentious fossil trade, where scientists fear being priced out of the market.

By Zachary Small and Julia Jacobs

Susan Zhuang, who represents a Brooklyn district, was protesting at the site of a proposed homeless shelter. The authorities said she resisted arrest with her teeth.

By Hurubie Meko and Nate Schweber

His Texas-style brisket, made with exacting precision, inspired a generation of New York City pit masters, who opened a wave of smoky joints in the 2000s.

By Clay Risen

The dated U.S. rail infrastructure is struggling to stay operational as climate change accelerates and intense heat waves, downpours and high winds become more frequent.

By Minho Kim

Apex, a dinosaur who roamed the Earth 150 million years ago, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s.

By James Barron

Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was found guilty of bribery and corruption. Leaders in his party are pressuring him to resign.

By Nicholas Fandos

It had already been a weird few weeks in New York. Then a fireball streaked across the sky.

By Liam Stack and Nate Schweber

The 8-week-old girl’s death came as extreme heat gripped much of the United States. A 2-year-old boy also died after being left in a car outside an apartment complex.

By Ed Shanahan

Sue Mi Terry, a North Korea expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, was charged with acting as an agent for Seoul after leaving the intelligence agency.

By Claire Fahy, Jesse McKinley and Benjamin Weiser

In many New York City homeless shelters, families need a doctor’s note to have air-conditioners. But some residents say shelters still make it difficult to get them.

By Andy Newman and Julian Roberts-Grmela

ABC No Rio, a cultural center on the Lower East Side, broke ground on the new building, which will replace the tenement it operated out of for more than 40 years.

By Colin Moynihan

A federal jury found that Guo Wengui defrauded investors, many his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars. He could face decades in prison.

By Michael Forsythe

Senator Robert Menendez was found guilty of a wide-ranging international conspiracy stretching from New Jersey to Egypt.

By Benjamin Weiser and Tracey Tully

Senator Robert Menendez immediately vowed to appeal his conviction on 16 felony counts. It is not clear whether he plans to resign his Senate seat.

By Nicholas Fandos

The businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, did not deny giving Senator Robert Menendez and his wife valuables.

By Tracey Tully

Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, was found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent.

By Benjamin Weiser, Tracey Tully, Nicholas Fandos and Maria Cramer

Judge Sidney H. Stein, who has almost 30 years of experience on the bench, has instilled a keen sense of order throughout the proceedings.

By Maia Coleman

A retired economist and a former Broadway and TV actor are part of the jury that will determine the corruption case against Senator Robert Menendez.

By Maia Coleman

This is likely to be the last year of Robert Menendez’s time in the Senate, no matter the outcome of his trial. But he could resign or be expelled if he’s found guilty.

By Nicholas Fandos

As an influential committee leader and the majority leader in the New York Assembly, he led efforts, later embraced in Washington, to expand coverage.

By Sam Roberts

Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.

By Pete Wells

An advertising program brings in $170 million for the M.T.A. and includes audio ads.

By James Barron

The hot spell will continue until Thursday, officials predict, and the city and surrounding areas were placed under a heat advisory.

By Lola Fadulu

Transit leaders had already allocated hundreds of millions of dollars before Gov. Kathy Hochul’s last-minute reversal on the long-awaited tolling plan.

By Ana Ley

Ruth Westheimer loved to give advice — and often strayed from her area of expertise as she tried, in her words, “to make the world a better place.”

By Steven Kurutz

Attorney General Letitia James wants a monitor appointed to oversee the gun group’s accounts after millions in misspending.

By Danny Hakim and Kate Christobek

Forecasters said that temperatures could feel more like 100 degrees in parts of New Jersey and New York City on Monday and into the mid and upper 90s for the rest of the region.

By Johnny Diaz and David Waldstein

A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.

By Alexis Soloski and Hiroko Masuike

A city program will offer eight designs that developers can use to make ubiquitous scaffolding more attractive.

By James Barron

Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, lived in the same Washington Heights apartment for more than half a century. Her neighbors said she was gregarious, funny and unabashedly herself.

By Anusha Bayya and David Waldstein

Mayor Eric Adams is facing a competitive Democratic primary next June. His challengers are sprinting to raise money.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Nicholas Fandos

A neighborhood in Queens, New York, turned 1.3 miles of a regular road into an open street for pedestrians, cyclists and playing children, with aims to make some of it into a park.

By Dodai Stewart

New York City community boards are known for rejecting development. In Manhattan, one politician is revamping them with appointees who say they are committed to easing the housing crisis.

By Mihir Zaveri

At a volunteer-run center, migrants come together across cultures and religions to share flavors from their homelands amid a polarizing crisis. But funding is running low.

By Winnie Hu and Todd Heisler

An unscheduled stop on the M72, an unusual signal for help and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy.

By Trip Gabriel

Ms. Kavanagh, the first woman to oversee the New York Fire Department in its nearly 160-year history, gave no explanation for her departure.

By Maia Coleman, Chelsia Rose Marcius and Hurubie Meko

The highly contagious disease was detected in a shelter in Brooklyn, according to the health department. More cases of measles have been reported in the city this year than in all of 2023.

By Hurubie Meko

American Oystercatchers are attacking drones that have been deployed to scan for sharks and swimmers in distress.

By Michael Levenson

A look behind the scenes at the illumination of the pieces on display. The so-called lampers strike a delicate balance between accentuating the art and protecting it from the effects of light.

By Sopan Deb and Hiroko Masuike

Without the protection of Chapter 11, the former mayor and Trump lawyer could have his assets seized and sold by creditors.

By Eileen Sullivan

Wayne LaPierre stepped down on the eve of the first phase of the trial. In the second act, the stakes will be far higher.

By Danny Hakim

In 1975, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ordered every town in the state to make way for multifamily housing. It’s been a long journey.

By Roshan Abraham

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, is retiring at a challenging time for the gay rights movement.

By James Estrin

A Utica, N.Y., officer’s fatal shooting of a 13-year-old provokes anger among the city’s Karen residents, members of an ethnic group from Myanmar.

By Hurubie Meko

George Gaffney, the top concierge at the Beekman hotel, goes restaurant hopping for breakfast with his family, then helps tourists find the best brunch spots.

By David Gardner

Senator Robert Menendez is charged with 16 separate crimes, including bribery, obstructing justice and acting as an agent of a foreign government.

By Benjamin Weiser and Tracey Tully

L’Alliance New York will celebrate the 14th of July with festivities marking the 235th anniversary of the famous storming of a Paris prison.

By James Barron

Chicky was beloved by her whole neighborhood. When she was killed by a speeding Jeep, we confronted a cold reality: Her death was considered a property crime.

By Ginia Bellafante

For many Black women, summertime calls for braids. Pricing for knotless braids, which are faster to braid, feel lighter and have gotten more popular, depends on the length and size of each braid and color blend, and whether hair used in the boho style is human or synthetic.

By Lola Fadulu and Naima Green

The university’s former president sued the school, saying a former board chairman harassed his wife. A law firm the university hired said no witnesses substantiated the claims.

By Christopher Maag

A recent Supreme Court ruling should nullify the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial, his lawyers said. The argument could be a long shot.

By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Kate Christobek

A muckraking journalist, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.

By Sam Roberts

The New York congresswoman was blamed for not being supportive enough of the Palestinian cause and efforts to end the war in Gaza.

By Nicholas Fandos

Chris Winkler went to trial after the government accused him of conspiring to sell illicit fish. Prosecutors said they were trying to preserve the bounty of the sea.

By Maia Coleman

She was an evangelist for older women having sex with younger men, and the health benefits that she said came with it.

By Penelope Green

The officer, Juan Perez, faces up to 364 days in jail for assault. The victim, who later killed himself in Kosovo, had been throwing water at passers-by.

By Lola Fadulu

Guo Wengui fled China and allied with the American right in a quixotic quest to end Communist rule. U.S. prosecutors say he stole over $1 billion from his followers.

By Michael Forsythe

Amid soaring temperatures, hundreds of activists are staging boisterous blockades and solemn marches at banks and insurers that support fossil fuel projects.

By Somini Sengupta and Cara Buckley

This week’s properties are in Turtle Bay, on the Lower East Side and in Kingsbridge.

By Heather Senison

Extensive cuts totaling $16.5 billion have suspended crucial repairs and upgrades to New York City’s vast transit network.

By Keith Collins

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Nutley, N.J., and a four-bedroom in Thornwood, N.Y.

By Jill P. Capuzzo and Anne Mancuso

At CUNY’s Baruch College, Natale Cipollina talks about Roosevelt, Johnson and Nixon. He makes presidential history relevant to today, students say.

By James Barron

Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

By Corey Kilgannon

The bribery case against Senator Robert Menendez has revealed how foreign intelligence officials cultivated casual access to one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington.

By Tracey Tully

His innovative version of the chocolate chip cookie, studded with irregular pieces of dark Swiss chocolate, led to a chain of more than 100 stores worldwide.

By Florence Fabricant

Starting Jan. 1, large hotels will no longer be able to offer small containers of shampoo and conditioner. The bill is part of an effort to cut down on single-use plastic.

By Claire Fahy

For decades, the court has been reluctant to allow lawsuits against individual federal officials. Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-nemesis believes he has found an exception.

By Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman

If the judge follows through, it would allow creditors to pursue foreclosures, repossessions and lawsuits that have been on hold as Rudolph Giuliani sought the protection of bankruptcy law.

By Eileen Sullivan

Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers finished a six-hour closing statement on Wednesday afternoon.

By Maria Cramer and Maia Coleman

Her writing, from the late 1920s to the late ’40s, about sex, marriage, divorce, child rearing and work-life balance still resonates.

By Marsha Gordon

Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.

By Laura Collins-Hughes