New York

Mayor Eric Adams did not attend the first candidate forum for the New York City mayoral race, but his record — and the criminal charges he faces — received plenty of attention on Saturday from the Democrats who are running to unseat him. The attacks covered Mr. Adams’s indictment on …

As lawyers for Daniel Penny, a former Marine accused of choking a homeless man to death in a New York subway car, vetted jurors Friday, a woman sat at a courtroom table, leaning toward the people being questioned and scribbling in a notebook. The woman, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, a jury consultant …

Five nights a week, Tom Llamas is one of the faces of election coverage for NBC News NOW. But on Sundays, he is about 40 minutes north of NBC’s Manhattan studios working out and hitting baseballs with his son at home in Westchester County, N.Y. “In New York City with …

Late in January, Katherine Franke, a prominent Columbia Law School professor and active supporter of the Palestinian cause, appeared on television to talk about a rally demanding divestment from Israel that had taken place on the steps of Low Library a few days before. What marked this protest from the …

For the actor Chris Perfetti, who lives in a fifth-floor walk-up in Brooklyn Heights, every day is leg day. “It’s worth it for the view,” said Mr. Perfetti, 35, who portrays the sixth-grade teacher Jacob Hill on “Abbott Elementary,” Quinta Brunson’s public school mockumentary set in Philadelphia. The fourth season …

It started gradually, as the Mets became the most compelling story in baseball over the last couple of weeks. And now Michael Kay has been hearing it on his daily show on ESPN Radio, where passionate sports fans bark their opinions all afternoon. A strange but undeniable fact: Mets and …

Four people, including a police officer and a high school teacher, have been charged with running a prostitution ring that operated two brothels on Long Island over nearly five years. The brothels were run out of “suites” in a building in Holbrook and a sex-toy store in West Babylon, according …

Representative Marc Molinaro has spent his decades of public service building a reputation as a particular brand of New York Republican: a measured and courteous pragmatist more interested in responsible governing than in ideological battles. But that reputation is being tested as Mr. Molinaro, a first-term congressman, seeks re-election against …

Barclays Center in Brooklyn shook with the roar of 17,700 basketball fans, almost all of them rooting for the New York Liberty. They have been waiting years for a team like this one, and on Thursday, with only five minutes left and the Liberty up by 15 points over the …

For a 74-year-old, Joe Holtz can cover a lot of ground very quickly. The ground he was covering the other day was the three adjoining carriage houses in Brooklyn that were subsumed by the Park Slope Food Co-op as it grew and became the largest, busiest and most argument-inducing single-store …