An Olympic stadium never rose over Hudson Yards, but several towers have been built nearby.
Remnants of a bid to host the 2012 Olympics have helped jump-start construction at Hudson Yards, which could soon have more office space than all of Baltimore, city officials said.
Roman Catholics throughout the English-speaking world on Sunday left behind words they have prayed for nearly four decades, as the church introduced a new translation of the Roman Missal.
The wooden toys, created in the early 1900s, are making a comeback as some elementary schools focus on unstructured play.
An intersection that now allows residents of luxury buildings on Riverside Boulevard access to the more traditional Riverside Drive has long been a subject of debate.
Federal prosecutors say advocacy by Julian P. Heicklen, a retired professor, is criminal and not protected by the Constitution.
The Occupy Newark protest has unfolded with disarming politeness in one of the nation’s grittiest cities.
Little known, even to longtime journalists, a 19th-century burial ground at the Cypress Hills Cemetery holds the graves of 84 “friendless journalists.”
November 26, 2011
A woman who escaped from being held after the robbery of a cabdriver was rearrested a day later after being spotted at a gas station in Brooklyn.
November 26, 2011
An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement had taken up in a gallery but violated conditions laid out by the university's president.
November 25, 2011
Slide Show: Subjects include the possibility of a school bus strike, a thwarted bomb plot and preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday.
More than 650 school leaders from around New York State had signed a letter with complaints, most of them from Long Island, where the movement began.
Contributions include verse about pleasing picky eaters at Thanksgiving and on an accident-prone pedestrian.
For the past 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York. An article will appear daily through Feb. 10.
Marjorie Suarez was a sergeant in the Department of Public Safety at New York University, until a minor injury turned into a devastating disability.
The sense of loss that accompanies neighborhood change is especially acute for residents of a special building in Queens who lived through collective horror.
In New York, where generosities are too often fueled by self-interest, it is not merely that so many people have a lot, but that so many have heard about too much.
Most of the teachers at the Brighton Ballet Theater School of Russian Ballet hail from the former Soviet Union, and most of their pupils are of Russian descent, but the borough’s diversity still comes through.
Adobe Blues stands out for its garish Southwestern décor, beer selection and music.
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