NEW YORK CITY

Dispatches from New York City's most magical day of the year.

Bill de Blasio says he's environmentally friendly, but he runs a city that actively antagonizes bikers.

The meditation of walking in a city is not as internal as that of hiking. You do not lose yourself in the silence; rather, you melt into the physical beat of observation.

“They took everything from me. I tried to save my food, but they threw away my food and my cart and everything.”

The city only gives out 4,000 permits a year, creating a black market for vendors securing them illegally—but now one local legislator is pushing to offer up more.

I'm gonna fill you in on a sandwich hack that will change your life (and the way you eat pastrami).

From very large dogs to giant construction beams.

The city is getting it either way.

On Monday, the National Organization for Women joined other local groups and a representative for Gloria Steinem to oppose legislation that would decriminalize sex work in New York.

Artists, models, and revelers remember a gloriously liberated decade of going out and making art—and the legendary watering holes that made it possible.

Recreational marijuana isn't yet legal in New York State, but corner stores are already angling for a piece of the action.

It's a huge win for New Yorkers, but Amazon's practice of extracting subsidies from state and local governments is still hugely successful all over the country.