In high school, I started to become like a local legend. A hood celebrity, if you will. And you really gotta understand how poppin’ New York City basketball was at that time. I’m playing against Stephon Marbury, Skip 2 My Lou, Alimoe (rest in peace), all these guys who would become household names, they were just kids from around the way. Man, even Cam’ron was super nice!!!

I knew all these guys from when we was little kids playing church basketball, and now all of a sudden we got Jay-Z, Puff, Dame Dash — all these guys are showing up to our games. That’s how insane New York City basketball was at that time.

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

A portrait of Harlem.

How Mayor de Blasio lost New York.

As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.

On loving and hating and living in Manhattan.

The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.

A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.

In an instant it was gone.

An Indian-American journalist navigates racism in the midst of a crime investigation.

On life in New York with an impossible neighbor named Jared.

Childhood, basketball, getting lost.

When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.

“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”

It won’t be easy.

“Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: It was so easy.”

Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

Two men. Five days. Five boroughs. Five 140.6-mile triathlons.

An interview with the activist.

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin at 42.

You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off. I have not paid a bill since. People ask, What does it feel like? As humans, we want attention. We want to be validated. At the same time, it’s strange attention, and a lot of it. If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange.