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Stanley R. Jaffe, a former Hollywood wunderkind who became president of Paramount at 29, then left after just a few years to become an Oscar-winning producer of films like “Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Fatal Attraction” and “The Accused,” died on Monday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 84. His daughter Betsy Jaffe confirmed…
As protests over the Gaza conflict ignited rancor and division at Columbia University last year, one student stood out for his role as a negotiator representing activists in talks with the school officials who were desperate to achieve peace on campus. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, emerged as a public face of students opposed to the war,…
Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in…
House Republicans cast the mayors of four major American cities as willful impediments to President Trump’s mass deportation agenda during a tense congressional hearing on Wednesday. But in doing so, Republicans also gave the leaders a national platform to passionately defend their cities’ policies and immigrants. The hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and…
Late last fall at the Hugo Newman School in Harlem, two social studies teachers handed out pages of hip-hop lyrics to their seventh graders, and then flicked off the lights. The students appeared surprised. They had been studying ancient matriarchal societies, including Iroquois communities that had women leaders. Now, their teachers were about to play…
When Nancy Cantor became president of Hunter College last fall, she asked faculty, students and staff what they wanted from the school. One answer was more attention to Palestinian studies. Faculty members began working on possible approaches. They came up with a plan for two tenure-track faculty positions that would cross several departments and began…
New York Mayor Eric Adams listens to questions from reporters during a press conference at the NYPD’s 40th Precinct on Feb. 20, 2025. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a federal judge Wednesday for an outright dismissal of his criminal corruption case, citing alleged misconduct by…
THREE people have been killed and two others were injured after a boat capsized near Staten Island. The boat overturned between Brooklyn, New York, and Staten Island at around noon on Sunday. 2 At least three people have been killed after a boat capsizes near Staten IslandCredit: ABC7 The boat capsized in the Newport Walk…
A decade after allegations first surfaced that schools operated by New York’s Hasidic Jewish community were denying children a basic education, the state government is for the first time cutting off funding for schools it says have refused to improve. The New York State Education Department will no longer provide crucial funding for two all-boys…
Harrison Greenbaum Through March 22 at 7 p.m. at Asylum NYC, 123 East 24th Street, Manhattan; asylumnyc.com. Harrison Greenbaum regularly tells jokes at the Comedy Cellar, but he is also a successful magician who has toured the globe. Starting in 2022, Greenbaum spent nearly two years as a starring act in Cirque du Soleil’s New…
