New York Today

Students at Fordham University and New York University had their visas revoked in recent days under President Donald Trump’s widening crackdown on foreign students, according to messages from school administrators.  NYU President Linda Mills emailed students and faculty late Tuesday noting that “some members of our own community are among those affected” by recent government […]

Stock markets rebounded somewhat Wednesday afternoon as President Donald Trump paused his latest round of reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Even so, New York City’s economy is expected to take a beating — and things could get even worse should Trump reignite an unprecedented global trade war. The implications are almost impossible to overstate, say

On a recent Wednesday, the line began to form around the corner of 116th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard by 3 p.m., an hour before the Food Bank for New York City Pantry and Community Kitchen opened for a free dinner. “What time is it?” chef Sheri Jefferson, 60, asked just after 4. Calmly but

New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reestablish an office on Rikers Island, rolling back a provision of the city’s sanctuary protections that had been on the books for more than a decade.  Mastro’s order cited “transnational gangs such as MS-13 and Tren

With the Trump Organization vying to run Wollman Rink in Central Park, 19 elected officials on Tuesday asked Mayor Eric Adams to halt the bidding process and reconsider a proposed $120 million gift by the park’s nonprofit conservancy to refurbish and run the facility that his administration shot down last fall. In a letter to

A Brooklyn judge dismissed the assault charges against Councilmember Susan Zhuang, the South Brooklyn Democrat who bit a police officer in a scuffle in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter last summer.  In a Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday morning, Assistant District Attorney David Ingle said Zhuang and Deputy Chief Frank Digiacomo had taken part in

In the nearly nine years since off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed 37-year-old Delrawn Small in an alleged road rage incident in Brooklyn, a criminal prosecution, an acquittal, two lawsuits, an appeal and three investigations have unfolded. But so far, there has been no NYPD disciplinary trial for Isaacs, who shot Small three

Attorneys for a Columbia University student who has been living legally in the U.S. since age seven are questioning whether the Trump administration, which has been seeking to detain and deport her, “provided incorrect or false information” to a magistrate judge to obtain a warrant to search her dorm room. In a court filing submitted

For years, workers at Citywide Mobile Response, a Bronx-based ambulance service, griped about what they described as their absentee union. Whenever medical equipment and safe trucks were in low supply, they said, their complaints to management fell on deaf ears — and their union was nowhere to be found.  The frustrations led to a campaign

In 2013, New York City Housing Authority tenant Susan Bourne had a stroke that completely paralyzed the right side of her body. The former clerical associate for the Administration for Children’s Services had moved to her Staten Island apartment 30 years earlier with her young son. But she hasn’t been back since the incident. For