From behind the bench of her small courtroom on lower Broadway, Judge Terry Bain began to read. In the second row of the gallery a young Chinese man in a white button-down shirt watched her carefully, his expression blank. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) had targeted him for deportation after he was caught in the United
On a sunny spring day almost 15 years ago, Stephanie Diaz and her fiancé decided it was time to get married. They drove from the Bronx to the New York City clerk’s office, a high-ceilinged marble hall in downtown Manhattan, to get a license to wed. But when the couple handed in their application, they were met with a rude
The Education Department proposed new rules on Tuesday to revamp its troubled program for forgiving the federal student loans of borrowers who become disabled. The new regulations came after an investigation last year by ProPublica found that the department's dysfunctional system for evaluating disability was keeping many genuinely disabled
Joggers at Central Park’s reservoir this week stopped in their tracks to puzzle over the strange sheen of the usually dark-blue water, whose striking shades of turquoise and green suggest the Caribbean more than Manhattan. Other iconic bodies of water have undergone a similar transformation. The Harlem Meer, northeast of the reservoir, and
