The New York Times

The longtime owner of the restaurant, a Theater District mainstay, is bowing out, and the Shubert Organization plans to reopen after a renovation, with the celebrity caricatures intact.

A boy, the son of a New York police officer, may have been playing with a gun when it accidentally went off, killing Ka’Mardre Coleman, 16, according to prosecutors and the boy’s lawyer.

The city was counting on a 15 percent rise in bonuses to produce tax revenues to fill its budget gap. The actual increase was 9 percent, the state comptroller said.

The U.S. government has blocked Venezuela from paying for its former leader’s defense lawyers. In a hearing, a judge said repeatedly that the former president’s right to his own defense was “paramount.”

The emerald tint to the Clove Lakes Park stream helped confirm long-held suspicions about what might be leaking from toilets.

A new play at the Public Theater written by Michael J. Chepiga and the former ambassador Julissa Reynoso is a diplomatic memoir of sorts, and a meditation on loving one’s country.

Officials expect the airport in New York to be fully operational later on Thursday. One of its two runways had been closed since Sunday, when a jet hit a truck, killing two pilots.

Firefighters responded to a call at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday and found that a person had died in the apartment where the fire originated.

Nine board members, six of whom were appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will meet Thursday to begin weighing whether to enact a rent freeze.

A bill being voted on Thursday is a watered-down version of what the New York City Council speaker vowed to pass after an intense protest outside a synagogue last year.