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The protesters, wearing masks and kaffiyehs, hung banners in the soaring main room of Butler Library’s second floor, renaming the space “the Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” according to the demonstrators and witnesses at the library.

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The case suggests that the Trump administration is using the pretext of criminal investigations to speed deportations, said Peter L. Markowitz, an immigration law professor at the Cardozo School of Law who helped draft the city’s sanctuary laws.

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The agreement brings to roughly $1 billion the amount paid for the wrongdoing of the doctor, Robert A. Hadden, coming after earlier settlements in which his former employers agreed to pay victims more than $200 million.

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Cuomo’s campaign is gathering signatures for a party called Fight and Deliver, which uses as a symbol a set of boxing gloves. The move provides a measure of assurance for Cuomo. If he were to lose the primary, he could still appear on his independent ballot line in the general election.

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Claire Shipman, the acting president, said in the announcement that Columbia would also be “running lighter footprints of research infrastructure” in some areas affected by the cuts. The university, she added, is continuing to negotiate with the federal government for the return of the grants.

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Baraka has been trying to stop the facility, which is expected to hold up to 1,000 migrants a day, from opening. In court, the city has argued that the detention center’s owner, GEO Group — one of America’s largest private prison companies — had begun operating without the required permits.

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Mamdani’s rising popularity and broad appeal is evident by the support he has received from donors across the city, in large swaths of neighborhoods in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to @nytimes.com analysis of campaign donations made from January 2022 to March 13 of this year.

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It was not immediately clear if the city is scrutinizing Cuomo’s tactics. But the New York City Campaign Finance Board, the body responsible for enforcement, blasted out a warning on Monday reminding all city campaigns about the new rules, according to a copy of the email obtained by @nytimes.com

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The issue is potentially serious for Mr. Cuomo, the Democratic front-runner for mayor. If found in violation of the rules, he could face stiff penalties and potentially lose out on millions of dollars in public matching funds.

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Congrats to all my colleagues who won Pulitzers or were named finalists!

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According to the police, a DoorDash driver got lost while trying to deliver food. Struggling to navigate with his phone, the driver began going to different homes to ask for help. When he reached Reilly’s home, he was told to leave. But when he attempted to leave, Reilly fired several times at him.

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He is the first officer to take a plea deal in connection with the killing of the prisoner, Robert Brooks, 43, who was beaten to death in December at Marcy Correctional Facility. The attack, which took place while Mr. Brooks was handcuffed, was recorded by officers’ body-worn cameras.

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According to a new report by the city comptroller, NYC is sitting on over $1B worth of unpaid invoices from nonprofits. This is money for groups that shelter the homeless, provide child and elder care, feed hungry New Yorkers, counsel the mentally ill, protect DV victims and provide legal services.

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“If lawyers are taking to the streets, it means something very serious and bad is happening,” said Traci Feit Love, the executive director of Lawyers for Good Government, a nonprofit that helped coordinate the events.

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It was one of around 50 similar actions around the nation on Thursday, led by lawyers who say President Trump is threatening the foundation of America’s legal system. “The rule of law protects us all. Without it we will surely fall,” the crowd chanted.

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Some budget experts, however, said the proposal had little margin for error should the country plummet into a recession or should Congress and the president continue to slash city funding. Already, the federal government has cut more than $300 million in disaster prevention grants to New York.

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The proposal, which could become part of a state budget deal, has raised profound concern among education experts, including the NY education commissioner, Betty Rosa, who said such changes amount to a “travesty” for children who attend religious schools that do not offer a basic secular education.

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The anger soon leaked out of the internet and into real life. Beginning_Field_2421 urged people to complain about Ms. Towle to the companies whose products she endorsed, and also suggested that Reddit commenters show up at a cancer research fund-raiser in New York that Ms. Towle would be attending.

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Six months later, SydTowleSnark had more than 1,000 members. It was filled with thousands of comments criticizing Towle’s public postings. Mostly, the commenters focused on their certainty that she was a cancer scammer.

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The ranges suggested that during a mayoral race where rising rents are a big issue, the final increases are likely to be similar to what they were last year, when 1-year leases went up by 2.75 percent and 2-year leases by 5.25 percent. Any increase would affect leases that start on or after Oct. 1.

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Towle’s critics did not seem concerned about the effect of their hostility. “If she fabricated any part of her story, it’s deeply unethical, and she deserves backlash,” Beginning_Field_2421 wrote. “Being a public figure comes with scrutiny — it’s part of the job.”

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Towle is now at the center of an intense social media collision that reveals the best intentions and worst instincts of the internet — where isolated strangers can become support systems in times of crisis and sleuths labor obsessively to root out scammers.

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“One has to wonder how you can be the person to fix our affordability crisis when you have no clue whatsoever what it’s like to struggle to pay your rent." “You need a mayor that understands that struggle, that is living it. I’m on the subway every day. I got student loans like everybody else.”

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I knew who this was about as soon as I read the main headline (which has The Conductor Who instead of Boston Pops + his name) but as somebody who remembers when his youth was one of the things people discussed when he was hired, I was surprised to find out he is 65. Time indeed flies.

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Amid strained negotiations with the union that represents its train drivers, NJ Transit began telling its customers on Wednesday to prepare for a shutdown of the statewide rail service in mid-May. It would be the first such strike in New Jersey in more than 40 years.

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In ruling to release Mr. Mahdawi, a federal judge, Geoffrey W. Crawford, found that he did not pose a danger to the public and that he was not a flight risk. The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying this was “not our proudest moment.”

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Yarbrough likened the networks forming among faculty at far-flung schools to a sociology theory: the “strength of weak ties.” “It’s understandable that some people may be fearful,” he said. “But what we’ve done is to focus on something that’s within our control: to ally with each other.”

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UMass-Amherst, SUNY, and at least three CUNY schools — Hunter, Hostos and City College — have adopted similar statements. Faculty senates at several other colleges are expected to vote in the coming weeks. Some faculty members are skeptical that the resolutions will make much of a difference.

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The report describes the problem of “abysmal” voter turnout in mayoral general elections, and says that the commission received “more written testimony calling for election reform than any other subject.” In 2021, just 23 percent of registered voters participated in the November general election.

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Under de Blasio, who was seen as tenant-friendly, the board allowed barely any increases. During his 8-year term, the board froze rent on 1-year leases 3 times and never raised it more than 1.5%. Under Adams, who has been more publicly supportive of landlords, the board has backed bigger increases.

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Stopping individual lawmakers from blocking new housing. Making it easier to remove homes from flood zones. Opening up primary elections to all voters. These are three ideas that New York City voters might be able to vote on in November.

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They drafted a one-page “mutual defense compact.” It was a one-for-all, all-for-one statement of solidarity among schools in the Big Ten athletic and academic conference. “An infringement against one member university,” they wrote, “shall be considered an infringement against all.”

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“We needed to write something that had some meat,” said David Salas-de la Cruz. He likened the effort to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, a military alliance of 32 countries. “This is not just about money,” he said. “This is about the essence of education.”

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President Trump, whose administration has insisted it could not bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador to the U.S., said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.

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Hours before a Lower Manhattan parking garage collapsed in 2023, killing an employee and injuring seven other people, workers had inadvertently destroyed part of a load-bearing pier on its second floor, a report released Monday concluded.

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Haley began telling her story publicly before the initial trial five years ago. Her accusations surfaced at the dawn of the #MeToo movement, as dozens of women came forward to recount what they said was Weinstein’s pattern of using his power to coerce women in Hollywood into sexual encounters.

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The operations manager for the Pitt-Greenville Airport Authority, John Hanna, confirmed that an aircraft with a tail number matching Mr. Langone’s private jet was “here for a short duration.” Flight records place that private jet on the ground at Pitt-Greenville for more than two hours on Feb. 17.

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