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A man jumped a fence early on New Year's Day, entered the New York mayor's official residence and stole a Christmas ornament, the police said. The mayor, Eric Adams, was […]

New Yorkers played central roles in developing such technological innovations as air-conditioning, toilet paper and the atomic bomb. But when confronted with one of civilization's most ubiquitous inventions -- the [...]

Remarkably well preserved ice age remains like those discovered recently in a yard near Scotchtown, N.Y., are rare -- but not as rare as you might think. A married couple [...]

The neighborhood reaction to the sudden closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: ''No no no no no no no no no no no!!'' In the vast constellation of [...]

Officers in Trenton have caused the deaths of innocent people, a Justice Department report found, citing a fatality that occurred after officers pushed a man's face into the ground. Police [...]

The allegation came in a complaint that said Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn activist, had been the target of a second assassination attempt. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Friday that [...]

Roger and Reynold Voisine, from upstate New York, used weapons that included a pipe, a police shield and a table leg studded with nails, prosecutors said. Two brothers from upstate [...]

The aurora borealis, which transformed the sky with startling streaks of pink and purple, arose from a magnetic storm. As a girl in Michigan, Gabriela Aguilar sometimes went looking for [...]

The escalation of violence between Israel and Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East threatened to bring the combatants closer to an all-out regional war. Israel's military on Sunday attacked its [...]

Some New Yorkers found a way to beat Citi Bike's algorithm. And one reporter found those New Yorkers. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers [...]

The bike-sharing program rewards users who help redistribute bikes around New York City. A few riders have figured out how to turn that into profit. It was the perfect New [...]

Volunteer ambulance squads are running out of volunteers. What happens when Bob VanCoughnett retires? The emergency radio erupted in a garble of static and a few spare details: possible stroke [...]

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an animal lover thought she was doing the right thing by freeing fish from a sidewalk pit. The man who created the pond saw it differently. The great [...]

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an animal lover thought she was doing the right thing by freeing fish from a cement pit. The man who created the pond saw it differently. The great [...]

One moment, Dorothy Peteet stood on a mat of squishy grass in Idlewild marsh, on the edge of Jamaica Bay in southern Queens. The next moment she sank to her […]

One summer day, a cow and a steer walked away from their farm. The cow was black and was named Blackee. The steer was golden brown, with two stubby horns. […]

Standup scooters, electric unicycles, homemade contraptions of all sorts. New Yorkers have plenty of ways to get around. This is Street Wars , a weekly series on the battle for [...]

On Friday, the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse swiftly returned to processing mundane mayhem after weeks of intensity and chaos from former President Donald J. Trump's trial. For weeks, Courtroom 1530 was [...]

The police recognized the suspect, Clifton Williams, when they went to the scene of another dispute on Friday. Nine days after the actor Steve Buscemi was punched in the face [...]

Mr. Kim, the New Jersey congressman, has become the odds-on favorite to win Robert Menendez's Senate seat. His strategy? Don't ask anyone for permission. Facing federal charges that he accepted [...]

The public college based in Harlem has a long history of radical politics and activism. It was after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, and the administration building of a college in [...]

A few weeks after Kenny DeForest died, a group of his friends gathered in an apartment in Los Angeles. The mood was somber -- Mr. DeForest was only 37, and [...]

The solar eclipse helped unite America -- or at least a very narrow band of it. Aidan Hernandez lay on the sidewalk wearing his eclipse glasses and staring up. The [...]

The solar eclipse helped unite America -- or at least a very narrow band of it. Aidan Hernandez lay on the sidewalk wearing his eclipse glasses and staring up. The [...]

Even with the National Guard patrolling the system, some New Yorkers say they don't feel secure, particularly after the subway shooting in Brooklyn on Thursday. Others remain unfazed. The subway [...]

Omer Neutra and Edan Alexander, young men from the New York area who joined Israel's military, were taken prisoner near Gaza. Their families now share one urgent goal: to free [...]

A judge ordered Bridgeport, Conn., to rerun its Democratic primary for mayor after videos of ballot stuffing surfaced. But first, the city held a general election. Joe Ganim, the longtime [...]

Mike Tehan pilots a fishing boat called Nibbles out of Shelter Island. An hour before sunrise on the first day of scallop season in November, as he unwound the ropes, [...]

Long before the temporary cease-fire ended in Gaza, the mood in Paterson, N.J., home to one of the largest communities of Palestinians outside the Middle East, was tense. The mood [...]

The mayor denied the accusation and said he has never met the Florida woman who filed the case under the Adult Survivors Act. Mayor Eric Adams of New York has [...]

The decision by Senator Cory Booker, a close ally, to condemn Senator Robert Menendez underscores the deepening crisis Mr. Menendez faces after his indictment. Senator Cory Booker called on Senator [...]

In New York, a crowd draws a crowd, but when the prince showed up, at least one passer-by was ''awe-struck.'' In New York, nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. [...]

A season-ending injury to Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets quarterback, after months of hype and hope, was the capstone on a disappointing stretch for the city's teams. In the [...]

The man pulls the buttoned blue shirt down over his head and waits. His hands, bony, cratered, have lost their strength, so the shirt flutters open at the sleeves and [...]

The arrest of a man charged in three of the killings brought a sense of safety to a community long accustomed to being on edge. For a killer looking to [...]

At around 7 a.m. one day last August, the first migrants sent to New York City by the governor of Texas arrived with little warning on a bus, and walked [...]

Smoke driven by the wildfires in Canada lingered over the Northeast and Midwest on Friday. Conditions were expected to improve over the Fourth of July weekend. Air quality remained poor [...]

In a city full of great pizza, Andrew Bellucci was New York's ''original pizza nerd.'' After he died suddenly, admirers gathered to remember his wild life. Some people are born [...]

In a city full of great pizza, Andrew Bellucci was New York's ''original pizza nerd.'' After he died suddenly, admirers gathered to remember his wild life. Some people are born [...]

When police officers in Paterson, N.J., responded to a 911 call in March from a man in the midst of a mental health crisis, they found someone they knew well. [...]

Dozens of migrants moved into a hotel in the town of Newburgh on Thursday, even as officials there sought an injunction to prevent that from happening. NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- After [...]

A construction project meant to improve conditions for the American woodcock has worsened them for the barred owl and the red-shouldered hawk. A New Jersey state agency is accusing itself [...]

Across from the Lower Manhattan courthouse, lawmakers waded in amid opposing crowds raging over the former president's fate. A block-sized park, darkened in morning shadow by the courthouse across Centre [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKelly Lotz sits in her house on Moreland Street on Staten Island and smells mold in all directions. Since Hurricane Sandy, the house next door and all its contents [...]

The end came suddenly for Werner Foerster, a 34-year-old state trooper executed with his own gun on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. For many others -- his widow, the [...]

Someone set fire to nearly a dozen Jewish religious symbols outside residents' front doors in a Brooklyn apartment building on Monday, prompting an investigation by the Police Department's Hate Crimes [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDavid Michael Perez sat on his fashionably low couch in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rocking his infant son in his lap, and crying 'upsie-daisy.' Beside him, August Heffner, said 'so cute' [...]

David Michael Perez sat on his fashionably low couch in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rocking his infant son in his lap, and crying 'upsie-daisy.' Beside him, August Heffner, said 'so cute' and [...]

The authorities in Turkey have obtained a court order allowing them to take DNA samples from 21 people who have been questioned in the bludgeoning of a New York woman [...]

A handgun was found in the backpack of a 7-year-old student at a public elementary school in Queens on Thursday morning, New York City officials said, leading to a tense [...]