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The Zombie Pharmacies That Are Holding Back New York City Retail An empty Duane Reade, steps from Wall Street, darkens a landmark office building. A former Walgreens in a condo [...]

I. 'Let's not crowd her right out the gate.' It was late summer, and the sun was high over East Harlem. Terrell Jones stepped out of a large black van [...]

The first time Reneé Jones overdosed on drugs last year, she was at her daughter's Bronx apartment and had gotten up to get one of her seven grandchildren a cup [...]

New Yorkers are contending with a bewildering and miserable mix of symptoms as Covid, flu, R.S.V. and various mystery illnesses circulate. For almost a month now, Sean Merriam has been [...]

The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it's paying off. BETHESDA, Md. -- The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey is 85 [...]

More people with severe mental illness may soon arrive in New York City's emergency rooms. What happens to them next? The most famous homeless person in New York in 1987 [...]

Many city residents agree something needs to be done to remove people with severe mental illness from public places. But some experts say the mayor's aggressive new approach may not [...]

New neighborhood businesses far from Midtown are thriving. Maybe it's time to redefine what ''comeback'' means. For several weeks now, Mayor Eric Adams has been obsessively pushing a recovery agenda [...]

(*Or at least that's the hope.) After several false starts, New York's latest comeback finally feels like the real thing. For the past several weeks, mayor Eric Adams has been [...]

Remember when New York City was doomed? The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit the city like a hammer, killing more than 20,000 New Yorkers over the course of [...]

Two dozen interviews with parents, educators and students revealed a range of opinions about whether schools should remain open. But most said the return to classrooms had been bumpy. The [...]

People are waiting for rooms for days. At a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, 11 women with Covid were crammed into a single room. For much of the pandemic, one way [...]

From subway lines to medical clinics to libraries, city businesses and services have been curtailed because of Covid. On the day that New York City set a one-day coronavirus case [...]

In the midst of a new Covid surge, New Yorkers are bracing themselves for another chilly season of outdoor ''fun.'' ''The whole notion of having to stay away from people [...]

After Mayor Bill de Blasio set a mandate for all private employers, some raised questions about how the city planned to enforce it, while others said they backed the idea. [...]

Frigid weather, a new coronavirus variant and indoor service will put outdoor dining to the test this winter. As soon as the first snowflakes fell in New York City on [...]

The holiday show, in its 95th year, will travel a longer route than it did last year and have more participants, including visiting marching bands. Participants in the Macy's Thanksgiving [...]

Emptied out by the pandemic, most churches in New York City do not require worshipers to be vaccinated. Rules vary from place to place. The weekly rhythms of Catholic life [...]

New York City is at an inflection point. The pandemic's grip on public life is easing, but the Covid-19 outbreak has left in its wake a cascade of new challenges, [...]

Efforts to vaccinate homebound seniors in New York have lagged, and the national pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine set them back further. Antonia Laraki is homebound, with a [...]

''A bunch of kindergartners,'' now in seventh grade, worked years to urge the City Council to approve a ban on toxic pesticides in parks, playgrounds and other spaces. Seven years [...]

Sure, the tax revenue is nice. But .... Even without final data from New York City about how many people remained in the city during the pandemic, an abundance of [...]

A nurse struggles with low morale; a waiter worries about a rush to normalcy; a respiratory therapist recovers from Covid, and more. Last March the Sunday Routine column, which typically [...]

Nightclubs are still officially closed in New York, but underground parties are there if you know where to look. On New Year's Eve, Sam Adeelmirza, the event organizer known as [...]

The pandemic shattered the city's economy, affecting people's homes, livelihoods and wallets. One photojournalist documented the hardships, as both a lament and a tribute. Times Insider explains who we are [...]

The pandemic's toll on New York City's economy and way of life was laid bare on its streets. New York City, the country's largest metropolis and an engine of the [...]

Mayor de Blasio, here's what to do with all the people returning to the city from log cabins and beach houses. My social circle started disintegrating in the spring. One [...]

At a Staten Island facility that was hit hard by the coronavirus, residents and staff members lined up to get a dose of the Covid vaccine. Here's how the day [...]

''There's some pieces of normalcy that I don't really want back,'' said one New Yorker. ''Our normal wasn't always ideal.'' New Yorkers stand this week as the living footnotes of [...]

Bus terminals and train stations were all but empty and restaurant owners said business was slow. Still, the city's resilience was evident. There was no Santa Claus at the flagship [...]

The mayor so many love to hate is doing more than most to get kids back in class. Sometimes it seems like the single point of consensus in America's fractured [...]

It is unclear when in-person instruction will restart, but the number of children who will return to classrooms has fallen short of the mayor's predictions. Several weeks before Mayor Bill [...]

City gyms were allowed to reopen on Sept. 2, but lingering concerns about indoor workouts mean many may not endure. The coronavirus has made a routine trip to the gym [...]

Parents, local officials and religious leaders bristled at the haphazard way the governor and mayor announced new restrictions, some of which contradicted each other. As New York officials on Thursday [...]

It is not a tale of triumph. Fear persists about what lies ahead. But small transformations have unfolded that reveal the grit and gifts of the city's people. Even as [...]

A Season of Grief and Release: 5 Months of the Virus in New York City The restaurant was empty, save for two other tables. Spoons slid through our dessert, split [...]

With an influenza pandemic and a war on, New York's health commissioner took an unorthodox stand, declining to shutter public entertainment. War plays were big on Broadway in the fall [...]

Thousands of New Yorkers left the city and headed to the suburbs during the pandemic, and real estate there hasn't been the same since. Shawna Padula and Keith Hymes, both [...]

Monday brings a new stage of activity to the city, allowing some places to reopen outdoors, while many activities inside, like restaurant dining, will still be forbidden. Amid concerns about [...]

New York City is moving to Phase 4 of its reopening plan, but indoor cultural attractions such as museums will stay shut for the time being. Whitney Donhauser, the director [...]

Those coming from a restricted state must isolate, but you can't be barred from entering your own building. Q: I have been staying in Florida during the pandemic, but am [...]