The 84-Year-Old Visionary With One Answer for Two Real Estate Crises
While his peers were building Modernist towers, the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi devoted his life to restoring beautiful old buildings.
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While his peers were building Modernist towers, the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi devoted his life to restoring beautiful old buildings.
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Officials did not immediately say what caused the crash, in Deer Park. Nine people were also injured.
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The number of people older than 65 who are living in shelters is growing quickly, in an unheralded sign of New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
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Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to call witnesses who will describe his childhood and the rocky start to his relationship with his wife.
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Reopen N.Y.C. Libraries on Sundays? Yes. Free 3-K for All? Not Quite.
Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached a $112 billion budget deal that restored some unpopular cuts to key programs.
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Stolen 37 Years Ago, Theodore Roosevelt’s Watch Finally Returns Home
The watch, which was stolen in 1987, was returned Thursday to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site on Long Island.
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How the N.Y.P.D. Quietly Shuts Down Discipline Cases Against Officers
Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.
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New Jersey Tells Trump’s Golf Clubs to Show They Deserve Liquor Licenses
The state said that former President Donald J. Trump’s felony convictions may mean he does not have the moral character to serve drinks.
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Former President of Honduras Sentenced to 45 Years in Sweeping Drug Case
Juan Orlando Hernández connived with traffickers as his country became a base of operations for cocaine shipments to the United States.
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He carved out a niche by singing songs by living composers from his own country, and was praised by critics at home and abroad.
By Adam Nossiter
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to call witnesses who will describe his childhood and the rocky start to his relationship with his wife.
By Tracey Tully and Benjamin Weiser
The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.
By Sarah Bahr
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
By Zachary Small
The authorities were searching for the detainee, a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness, after he eluded two guards at Bellevue Hospital Center.
By Jan Ransom and William K. Rashbaum
The watch, which was stolen in 1987, was returned Thursday to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site on Long Island.
By Christopher Maag
The City Council successfully pushed to reverse budget cuts that Mayor Eric Adams had proposed to libraries, cultural institutions and composting.
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.
By Clay Risen
Officials of the two transit agencies met in an impromptu meeting on Thursday called by New Jersey’s governor, Philip D. Murphy.
By Patrick McGeehan
A scramble for the Infowars host’s meager assets pits Sandy Hook victims’ families against one another in court.
By Elizabeth Williamson
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