New York City

President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.

The ruling, from Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, blocks President Trump’s quickest path to overturning his 2024 conviction for covering up hush-money payments to a porn star.

After decades as a coveted address in Syracuse, N.Y., the sprawling Nob Hill complex descended into neglect, squalor and death. One family paid a terrible price.

Many early childhood centers, the backbone of New York City’s universal child care system, have not received money from the city for this school year, some day care operators said.

New York City officials said a flood watch was in effect on Thursday starting at 12 p.m., with the possibility of flash flooding in the afternoon and evening.

The two controllers are among a dozen that the Federal Aviation Administration has taken steps to fire as part of an inquiry into timecard fraud, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who has struggled to win over Wall Street, intends to use the council to help him invigorate New York City’s economy.

An appeals panel ruled against Representative LaMonica McIver, who is accused by the Justice Department of assaulting immigration agents outside a migrant detention center in New Jersey.

The driver of an S.U.V. and two passengers were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at a hospital. Four other people were injured.

Mamdani administration officials said they had used new data to shrink the pool of properties potentially subject to the tax and extended the deadline for homeowners to prove city residency.