The New York Times

A recent spate of subterranean exploring has piqued the curiosity of New Yorkers — and concerned officials who warn of danger underground.

A friendly handoff on a hot day, a curious question on the F train and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Mohamed Coulibaly rose from poverty to a life of private jets and parties with N.F.L. stars who invested in his businesses — until the money stopped flowing. The 23-year-old died this summer.

A New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.

Galliano, a fashion industry giant championed by Anna Wintour, was found guilty of a hate crime for his antisemitic outbursts in 2011.

Drawings obtained by The New York Times and reviewed by engineers show insufficient reinforcements on eight more steel columns than previously known at a Manhattan building.

President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.

The ruling, from Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, blocks President Trump’s quickest path to overturning his 2024 conviction for covering up hush-money payments to a porn star.

In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Launch Schools is leasing a former parochial school building as a permanent home for its high school.

In this semi-open-air staging in the Hudson Valley, the musical conjures Paris’s seedy cobblestone streets with an adept Jean Valjean leading the charge.

After decades as a coveted address in Syracuse, N.Y., the sprawling Nob Hill complex descended into neglect, squalor and death. One family paid a terrible price.

Thuc Nguyen filmed the World Trade Center attack from the fire escape of her Chinatown apartment. For many years, she avoided looking at the footage.

A judge found Dimone Fleming not responsible for the deaths of her children at a shelter in 2022. Doctors said she suffered from postpartum psychosis.

Many early childhood centers, the backbone of New York City’s universal child care system, have not received money from the city for this school year, some day care operators said.