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As the newest Staten Island ferry grumbled across New York Harbor the other day, you could easily imagine the woman for whom it is named in contemplation by a window.Her dress plain, her white hair in a braided crown, her eyes seeking the divine in the green-gray waters.THE Dorothy Day, for angular woman and massive vessel both.

Downtown Brooklyn is getting tagged!Pieces from 25 graffiti well-known artists come together at "Get Lucky," a new exhibit co-curated by Laura "Lulu" Reich, former associate director of West Chelsea Contemporary gallery, and Emmy nominated filmmaker and graffiti artist Koz at City Point.

A New York judge will hear arguments Thursday over a proposed protective order in Donald Trump's criminal case that would limit the former president's ability to publicize information about the investigation.Trump will not be in attendance for Thursday's hearing, the first since he pleaded not guilty last month to charges of falsifying business records with the intent to conceal illegal conduct connected to his 2016 presidential campaign.

Assemblymember Lester Chang will not be expelled from the state Assembly over questions of his residency, Speaker Carl E. Heastie announced on Friday."After careful review, the vast majority of our members have significant concerns about the truthfulness of Mr. Chang's documentary evidence and testimony regarding his compliance with the New York State Constitution," Heastie said in a Jan. 6 statement.

Bar Lab Hospitality has opened LilliStar, an indoor-outdoor lounge and cocktail bar on the rooftop of the new Moxy Williamsburg, created in partnership with Mitchell Hochberg of Lightstone.LilliStar offers stunning, unobstructed views of the Williamsburg Bridge, East River and Lower Manhattan.The space blends contemporary Indo-Aussie style with Brooklyn energy.

In the wake of a deadly collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan last week, New York City officials found structural problems at four other garages so dangerous they ordered the buildings at least partially vacated.At those four garages two in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn the city's Buildings Department found that the structures had deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety, said Andrew Rudansky, a spokesman for the department.

New York City regulators have given ride-hail drivers a boost in pay to keep up with rising expenses after an Uber lawsuit blocked them from handing out a bigger raise late last year.The raise was immediately hailed as a victory by a group representing many of the drivers.The Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates companies like Uber and Lyft, had voted in November to increase the amount that ride-hail companies must pay their drivers.

Bond New York Bond New York Bond New York Bond New York Manhattan | 100 Beekman Street, No. 10J A one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a balcony, an open living and dining area, a galley kitchen with Caesarstone countertops and a glass backsplash, a bedroom with a double closet and a bathroom with a tub in a 27-story doorman building with a laundry room, a parking garage and a community room.

While not large, this apartment in one of Brooklyn Heights' most storied mansions is elegant, with a carved marble mantel, unusually fine original moldings, and trompe-l'oeil bookcase wallpaper.It also overlooks the East River and has extraordinary views of New York Harbor and lower Manhattan.The three-room one-bedroom is located on the third floor of 3 Pierrepont Place, built in 1857 and formerly home to tea merchant Abiel Low and his son, Seth, who grew up to be mayor of Brooklyn and, later, New York City.

Meetings have been going on throughout the week between city, state and federal law enforcement agencies in New York City about how to prepare for a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump as early as next week, multiple sources told CNN.Meetings have been held between senior staff members from the Manhattan district attorney's office, the New York State Court Officers who provide security at the state Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan and the New York Police Department, according to law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Name: Chloe Flower Age: 37 Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pa.Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed tower in Lower Manhattan.Claim to Fame: Ms. Flower is a classical pianist and composer known for her self-titled crossover genre, Popsical, which merges classical music with pop and hip-hop.

Michael D. Cohen, a crucial witness in the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump, is meeting with prosecutors on Monday ahead of his expected appearance before the grand jury hearing evidence in the potential case.Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former fixer, was seen entering the building in Lower Manhattan where the prosecutors work and the grand jury meets.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and mayor Eric Adams unveiled a reimagined vision for a New New York Wednesday, while acknowledging that the pandemic has fundamentally changed New York City.The plan, titled New New York: Making New York Work For Everyone, suggested that reinvigorating the city's commercial districts by transforming them into 24 hour live-and-work spaces was key to the city's future.

For days, Democrats in the New York State Assembly had been considering whether to expel a Republican assemblyman because of evidence suggesting he lived in Manhattan, not in the South Brooklyn district he was recently elected to represent.The efforts to remove Assemblyman Lester Chang were seen as extraordinary a legislator hasn't been ousted from the Assembly in over a century and politically contentious, fueling accusations from Republicans that Democrats were pushing a partisan agenda to overturn his election.

Ignacio Mattos, the chef and restaurateur, gave New York one of its most original restaurants of the past decade, Estela.With his latest place, Corner Bar, he seems to be out to prove that originality is overrated.I'm not sure he succeeds, but he comes a lot closer than I would have thought possible.

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.What becomes of the artists' models?Audrey Munson asked plaintively a century ago.Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?What has been her reward?

Jay Goldberg, a former boxer from Brooklyn who nimbly transmuted punches into punch lines that he wielded as a lawyer to defend celebrity clients including Donald J. Trump, Sean Combs, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones and a bevy of mobsters, died on Dec. 5 at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y.He was 89.

A man with a long criminal history left two young people dead and a 96-year-old man wounded in a 24-hour period of violence in public housing projects in Brooklyn and Manhattan before turning himself in early Tuesday, the police said.The shootings began at about 9:30 a.m.Monday in the Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights, when police said the suspect, who was later identified as Sundance Oliver, 28, tried to rob a woman and shot the 96-year-old bystander in the process.

The government must not politicise plans to memorialise the Covid-19 pandemic, the chair of the UK commemoration commission has said, as she urged more people to submit ideas on how to remember the nation's experience.Nicky Morgan, a former Conservative cabinet minister, said ministers would be unwise to put any political spin on plans when they decide on what form memorials will take.

Good morning.It's Thursday.We'll look at why congressional races provide takeaways for Republicans and Democrats.We'll also look at a Norway spruce that's coming to a very prominent place in Manhattan.Image Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times Gov. Kathy Hochul won her first full term, but her five-percentage-point victory over Representative Lee Zeldin reflected how that race went from a cakewalk to a nail-biter.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a once-obscure Democrat from Buffalo, won her first full term as governor on Tuesday, prevailing against a Trump-aligned Republican, Representative Lee Zeldin, according to The Associated Press.By surviving a potent swell of voter discontent around public safety and inflation, Ms. Hochul became the first woman ever elected to the state's highest office.

Dear Diary: It was 1977.I was 16 and had a job at a shoe store on 46th Street between Madison and Fifth.A man came in to the store looking for a hard-to-find style: a dress half-boot with a buckle.To make things more difficult, he took a size we rarely kept in stock.But not only did I have what he was looking for, I was able to offer it to him in both black and brown.

Bernard Rosen, the dependable first deputy budget director who advised four New York City mayors on how to close looming deficits by scraping together tens of millions of dollars here and tens more there, died on Oct. 22 in Queens.He was 91.The cause was heart failure, said his son, Eric, who is his only immediate survivor.