Her challenger had collected $10 million, but Ms. Ocasio-Cortez still coasted to an easy win, creating speculation about her future political ambitions.

The New York City medical examiner strongly disputed the claim that evidence from the autopsy suggested strangulation.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, a former organizer for Bernie Sanders, defeated Mr. Crowley in a district where he had not drawn an opponent for more than a decade.

Lily, a character introduced seven years ago to address child hunger, returns. This time her family does not have a place to live.

After decades evading the police, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera was convicted in a drug conspiracy trial and faces a life sentence in an American prison.

Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for “Show Boat,” “The Music Man” and “Mary Poppins.”

Noëlle Santos had never been in an independent bookstore before she decided to open one herself. Now, three years after Barnes & Noble skipped out, the Lit. Bar arrives.

The woman, who has become known as “Cornerstore Caroline,” claimed that a boy had touched her behind. She apologized after a video showed she was wrong.

The memorial, announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is one of several efforts to honor Justice Ginsburg in Brooklyn, where she grew up.

Monday: A women’s suffrage anniversary, places to celebrate the milestone, and a question for voters.

Ms. Carroll, a writer, has asked a judge to reject the department’s move to intervene in her lawsuit against the president, whom she has accused of rape.

City workers assigned to help homeless students are overwhelmed, leaving many of the children to miss enormous amounts of school.

A New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer shot Jarrell Garris, 37, after he was accused of eating some grapes and a banana without paying, his family’s lawyer said. The police said he tried to grab an...

Although he was expected to testify about bribing a Mexican president, Jesus Zambada Garcia implicated the defendant in six separate murders.

Face coverings have been a political flash point for more than a year. But now, the backlash is directed at people who don’t plan to take them off.

Ms. James made history on three fronts and positioned herself at the forefront of America’s legal bulwark against the policies of President Trump.

The city has 82,473 people in its database. Many of them have no idea their genetic information is there.

As a standoff builds in Washington over the president’s federal tax returns, New York’s Legislature is moving quickly to allow the release of Mr. Trump’s state returns.

New York’s mayor, casting himself as a defender of immigrants, minorities and others, is among those rallying urban leaders.

Attorney General Letitia James is investigating whether taxes were paid on perks that the Trump Organization gave to Allen Weisselberg, its chief financial officer.

Was she the reason he was alive today?

A scholar of Judaism as well, he walked every block in New York — totaling 6,163 miles — and wrote a book about his odyssey. He died of the coronavirus.

Medical professionals on the front lines in New York and its suburbs are facing a shortage of masks and other personal protection equipment. Here are easy ways residents can donate supplies.

One out of every 10 students lived in temporary housing during the last school year.

It once symbolized an urban way of working, and New York’s resilience. In the pandemic’s second year, the future of the world’s most famous skyscraper is in doubt.

As Mayor Eric Adams began speaking at the law school’s commencement service, many of the graduates, in their caps and gowns, turned away from him in a show of protest.

Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged that he had to be persuaded to close schools and restaurants.

Relatives of the man, Daniel Prude, said the police officers involved in his death in March in Rochester, N.Y., should be charged with murder.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who is to become the youngest congresswoman in American history, said that her ancestry includes Sephardic Jews who fled Europe.

Mr. Browder’s experience at the jail made him a symbol of unfair practices in the criminal justice system and led to a ban on solitary confinement for New York City youths.

No one has claimed the bodies of the 16- and 22-year-old sisters, originally from Saudi Arabia. They had requested asylum in the United States.

Since September, court employees have had the chance to either get vaccinated or apply for a religious or medical exemption. Monday marked the end of the review process for those applications.

Bemelmans Bar now has bouncers. And at the Rainbow Room, a post-punk after party.

No visitors. No friends at the dining table. Neighbors dying without notice. But many older adults have proved resilient during the pandemic, a phenomenon known as “crisis competence.”

Mr. Kurson, a former newspaper editor, was accused of cyberstalking his former wife both before and after their 2016 divorce.

The former mayor of New York City, who chose not to run for president this year, will back Mrs. Clinton in a speech at the Democratic convention.

Mr. Migliucci’s family-owned restaurant on Arthur Avenue, Mario’s, celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. He fell victim to the coronavirus.

Mayor Eric Adams criticized the woman, whose family left Germany in the 1930s, after she questioned him about back-to-back rent increases.

A cellphone video showing police officers surrounding the vendor inside a Brooklyn subway station went viral, resulting in a protest on Monday.

F.B.I. agents visited Mr. Hyde’s home and business in Connecticut after electronic messages suggested he had been illegally tracking the American ambassador to Ukraine.