“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.
How New York City responds to terrorism.
In the weeks after Davis shot the six cops, faked out the costly, nationwide manhunt for 17 days, and held a major portion of the NYPD to a standoff in the Twin Parks Houses near Fordham Road, huge black-and-white mug shot-like photos of a starry-eyed, baby-faced killer adorned the front pages of the tabloids under headlines like “They Won’t Take Me Alive” and the local news anchors excitedly invoked his name at the top of every show.
An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.
What happened after an unarmed 18-year-old named Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York City police officer.
There are a thousand ways to buy weed in New York City, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy for standing out: They hired models to be their dealers.
The screaming ambassador to the sidewalks of New York City.
A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.
Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.
A day and a night in 1960s Greenwich Village.
A profile of photographer Bill Cunningham.
Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.
The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.
Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.
The story of a broken neighborhood.
What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”
How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.
