If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...

A Brooklyn neighborhood is grieving the loss of 17-year-old Deaza Barkley, who was shot and killed over the weekend. Family, ...

The library closed abruptly Tuesday, with visitors escorted out of the building after the Trump administration ordered the ...

The National Archives, which administers the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, announced the library will reopen one day after it was closed "until further notice." ...

The cuts affected five probationary employees, a relative said. The Trump administration has targeted such workers for firing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul held a series of meetings with key political figures Tuesday as she contemplates ...

In addition to shelving books, the recently completed North Boulder Library, designed by the New York–based practice WORKac, accommodates community groups and adds a pollinator garden and makerspace ...

In this weekend update we cover a deadly fire in Queens. At least three people were killed in the fire overnight in Bayside. Plus, a bodega in the Bronx is taking a unique approach to making egg ...

No one knows what happens after death, but these 15 surviving beneficiaries from around the globe know what happens when a ...

On Monday, you won’t need to move your car for street cleaning. Monday is Presidents Day, a federal holiday that always falls on the third Monday in February.

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...