New York City

Prosecutors said that Asif Merchant traveled to the United States in 2024, under the guise of a businessman, to coordinate plots to kill leaders, including President Trump.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said officers had been attacked at Washington Square Park. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the episode looked like a snowball fight, not a crime.

Many of New York City’s wealthy and well-connected power players find themselves in an unfamiliar place: the wilderness.

The lawsuit is the latest federal challenge to policies enacted in Democrat-led states. Similar suits have targeted laws in New York, Minnesota and California.

Joseph Lynskey was determined to overcome his fear and reclaim his life as a New Yorker who enjoys the city in full. On Tuesday, he filed a lawsuit against the city and the M.T.A.

A verdict in the trial against Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander could come as early as next month, but the three men still face nearly two dozen civil lawsuits.

Record-breaking amounts of snow fell in many parts of the region, blanketing the area with snow in the second large storm of the year.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York had lobbied for his preferred candidate, Claire Valdez. But the party backed Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president.

The Mamdani administration is enforcing rules that require food and yard scraps to be separated, with fines ranging from $25 to $300.

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.