Attorney Philip Simonelli, 29, who works for the city’s Law Department as assistant corporation counsel, was slapped with six misdemeanor charges following his 2:20 a.m. Tuesday arrest, according to police ..read more

The Wings fought with the Liberty all night but couldn’t get past them, mainly because of MVP candidate Breanna Stewart’s 40-point effort ..read more

Danelo Cavalcante, a 34-year-old convicted murderer, was spotted just south of the original search area on Monday evening ..read more

New York City’s greenway network is a Frankenstein monster of jurisdictions, histories and responsibilities. Unfortunately, this shows up on our public pathways in uneven upkeep, an unsteady pace of improvement and poor equity of access across the five boroughs ..read more

The aroma wafted across my hometown seven days a week. It insinuated itself into our community, our nostrils and our imaginations. The fragrance came from a factory on a former cornfield about a mile from our house. The site was owned by a company named Nabisco ..read more

Yesterday, state Attorney General Tish James, joined by the Legal Aid Society, New York Civil Liberties Union and private plaintiffs reached a settlement with the NYPD over its treatment of protected speech protest activity as a result of its heavy-handed response to the 2020 racial justice protests following the killing of George Floyd ..read more

The biggest threat to our representative democracy is not poll taxes or other active suppression of voting rights, but sophisticated fiddling with district maps and other seemingly mundane mechanics to amplify some citizens’ voices and squelch others. Fortunately, though the Supreme Court has largely thrown up its hands in the face of increasingly complicated gerrymandering schemes in which politicians choose their voters and not the other way around, especially egregious examples of the black art remain subject to judicial scrutiny and invalidation ..read more

Alexandria, Va.: I am writing to bring attention to the Electric Zoo music festival in New York City that took place Sept. 1-3. The event started off on a bad note when its organizers posted that the first day would be canceled due to “supply chain disruptions” that led to construction not being completed ..read more

Giancarlo Stanton achieved a personal milestone in typical fashion on Tuesday, drilling a ball to left field for the 400th home run of his career ..read more

The future of the Mets was on display Tuesday night in Washington D.C ..read more