Voyeur
Voyeur: Fire Escapes
Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fire escapes are an integral part of New York City’s streetscape.
Despite the weather, winter is prime baseball season in New Jersey, where professionals like Mike Trout train with younger players.
Fire escapes are an integral part of New York City’s streetscape.
Benefits and galas were held last week for: Woman’s Day, the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Waterkeeper Alliance and Lycée Français de New York.
A Broadway actress on what matters most at home: quiet and light. Mostly light.
New York Fashion Week kicks off with parties for Rag & Bone, and Bergdorf’s Nikelab.
Moments from the shows of Brock Collection, Nicholas K, Desigual and Erin Fetherston on the first day of New York Fashion Week.
amfAR held its annual gala at the start of New York Fashion Week.
RollerJam USA is the only indoor, year-round roller skating rink in New York.
Great Bear Lake in Canada is the first Unesco Biosphere Reserve led by an indigenous community. They guard it as if it were the last hope for humanity. They may have a point.
The culturally diverse Long Island village on the edge of Queens offers an easy commute and a quiet place to come home to.
The store, the oldest family-owned tofu and noodle shop in New York, cites increasing competition, a shrinking customer base and a generational shift.
A sophisticated, late supper at Mr. Chow’s indicated just how far Out of Order had come since Dorian Grinspan founded it five years ago.
Wednesday’s temperatures reached 62 degrees in New York City, but don’t get used to it. Up to 12 inches of snow could hit the region on Thursday.
Tom Brady rallied the Patriots from a 28-3 deficit in the second half to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the first Super Bowl to go into overtime.
In his first exhibition, the street photographer Daniel Weiss documents the kind of eccentric moments people in the city complain about going extinct.
Our favorite looks shot between the men’s wear shows in New York.
Planning a renovation? The first step might be to snoop on the neighbors.
Galas for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, the New York Philharmonic, the Germanistic Society of America, and the National Cares Mentoring Movement.
Automakers have pulled many convertible models, leaving lovers of top-down driving to find their own solutions.
In Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, two former roommates at Louisiana State University are trying to redress the city’s lack of gumbo.
The exuberant designer, a favorite of Silicon Valley titans, believes great architecture can “lift you up.”
The neighborhood offers a mix of people and architectural styles, as well as easy access to Prospect Park and Manhattan.
Dior celebrated its new fragrance at the Manhattan hot spot Up & Down on Tuesday night.
The Alabama-based designer plays the host on the first night of New York Fashion Week: Men’s.
Across the country, protesters gathered in large numbers to voice their opinions on an executive order signed by President Trump that restricted entry into the U.S. for some Muslims.
The photographer returned from the war and joined the Photo League, documenting the lives of lower-middle-class New Yorkers. Some of his work is on display in Manhattan.
Benefits were held last week for Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian, Winter Antiques Show and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For Max von Essen, owning an apartment in New York was the first step. Then came the furnishings and the renovations — one for every show.
Ms. Moore was best known as the spunky professional Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as Laura Petrie, the wife of a comedy writer, on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
From a perky hat toss to jumpsuits fit for a fighter pilot, the character Mary Richards reflected the stylish trajectory of the working woman.
As the fashion season circles back eastward, a look at the street style seen during couture week in Paris.
A new restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, combines a grandmotherly vibe with dishes from a Daniel alum.
A village of less than a square mile, Piermont, N.Y., has a disproportionate number of spectacular geographical features — and city transplants.
A new exhibition of Jo Brocklehurst’s art shows unseen portraits of cabaret artists, bohemians, New Romantics, punks, drag queens and fetish fans.
The mortgage lender, like the big banks before it, has come under regulatory scrutiny. Its feisty founder, Dan Gilbert, is unfazed.
Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States after one of the most divisive election campaigns in modern times.
A photo look at first lady fashion, dating back to Mary Todd Lincoln’s gown in 1861.
The incoming first lady’s choice for the inauguration sent a message about embracing both the establishment and the office.
Photographing Washington the week before the inauguration.
David Dee Delgado has been photographing dirt bike riders who gather in the Bronx for daring stunts and group rides, all in the pursuit of brotherhood.
Dinners were held for the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, the NRF Foundation and the Players Club.
A chaotic transition process that cast aside Gov. Chris Christie’s blueprints has left the president-elect’s team scrambling to fill key posts.
Past the cellphone store and jewelry shops, a destination for dumplings and other Himalayan specialties in Jackson Heights.
Industrial Hudson Square is being reinvented as a residential neighborhood — one that’s more or less affordable, for Lower Manhattan.
Ms. Swope produced hundreds of thousands of images of performers in action, and by the time she retired, her studio contained more than a million images.
A northwestern China specialty is drawing crowds, sometimes demanding, to a stall in Chelsea Market.
Galas and ceremonies were held for the Metropolitan Opera, Cinema Eye Honors and UJA-Federation of New York.
The president’s confidence was etched with frustration over economic inequity, racism and closed-mindedness that he said imperiled the nation’s democratic fabric.
Recent development on the waterfront — with striking views and appealing prices — is attracting those who work in New York City.
Possibly the last of the original chop houses on Steak Row, Pietro’s is a living monument to the era of the Mad Men power lunch.
A bevy of after-parties hosted by InStyle, Warner Bros., Netflix and others were held at the Beverly Hilton.
Federal law enforcement officials identified the suspect in a shooting that left at least five dead as a 26-year-old former National Guardsmen.
Anthony Geathers has been photographing David Branch for three years, watching him and the sport take off.
Statues and holiday displays figure prominently in Astoria, Queens.
Forty-six young women were introduced to society at the 62nd International Debutante Ball, held on Dec. 29 at the Pierre Hotel in New York.
Developments are banking on the cleanup of the heavily polluted canal.
The attack on Sunday, which killed at least 39 people, targeted a symbol of a cosmopolitan Istanbul that is increasingly under threat.
The gunman was still at large after the mass shooting early Sunday in which dozens more were wounded, Turkish officials said.
Rapping, painting and lion-hugging. Here’s a look back at what happened in the arts in the past year.
Photographs by Salvador Espinoza capture the friends and family members of inmates, on their way to New York City’s largest jail complex.
The owner of Tavern 62 by David Burke, on why he has 1,200 cookbooks and more art than he can display.
Ms. Reynolds starred in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the classic MGM musical about 1920s moviemaking, in which she held her own with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor.
American makers are struggling, but help may be on the way.
The most eye-catching looks from the annual fashion-show global circuit.
Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world gathered Saturday in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington.
There are thousands of getaways to explore this year. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.
A curated walk through the hallways of the newest Smithsonian museum before it opens next week. 13 years in the making, it attempts to depict the pain and pride of the black experience in America.
Members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams shed some clothing — whatever they thought was appropriate — to let you try to guess their sport.
Muhammad Ali, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion, was among the most controversial and charismatic sports figures of the 20th century.
Photographs of the pope’s first trip to the United States, as Catholics and non-Catholics alike will navigate crowds in three cities to catch a glimpse of the “people’s pope.”
Behind the scenes of Serena Williams’s historic Grand Slam bid — and ultimate collapse.
For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles.
Pope Francis, the fourth pontiff to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, will find it brighter, cleaner and in better repair than it has been for decades.
The New Orleans of 2015 has been altered, and not just by nature. In some ways, it is booming as never before. In others, it is returning to pre-Katrina realities of poverty and violence, but with a new sense of dislocation for many, too.
A photographer parts the curtains on one of the world’s least-known places and brings back pictures of a country that is defined for many by mystery and war.
When Nepal was hit with a powerful earthquake the tremor shattered lives, landmarks and the very landscape of the country. The scope of the disaster in photographs.
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
Finding unexpected beauty in the hands of shoe shiners.
The Rosetta spacecraft is following Comet 67P/C-G as it makes its closest approach to the sun.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.