Dan Barry

The author, 97, raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his celebrated Albany cycle with half a century ago.

Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?

Memories Are Still Swirling 20 Years After a Hurricane

The Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan was a virtual city within a city. But in the end, nothing could save it.

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

A part of Interstate 80 in New Jersey passes near and over abandoned iron mines, remnants of a thriving ore-and-mineral industry that began before the American Revolution.

Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state’s residents have time to reflect, and get mad.

A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this weekend. Her entertaining website has drawn praise and raised eyebrows.

Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of Covid behind it.

A Times writer was browsing the gray columns of newsprint when a photograph transported him to the green infield grass of childhood.

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.

In an upstate New York courtroom, Thomas Rath faced down the man accused of orchestrating his son’s murder.

With the specter of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of communities on election safety. Luzerne County, Pa., is at the center of the unrest.

Mayor Eric Adams is the first modern-era New York City mayor to be indicted. But A. Oakey Hall, his little-known predecessor, faced criminal charges 150 years earlier.

The funeral of Bishop Eamonn Casey in 2017 seemed to draw a line under his scandalous affair years before. But this summer, disturbing new allegations emerged.

For me, the decision by Boar’s Head to end production is just the latest blow to a somewhat squishy slice of national and personal history.

Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.

She was just a girl when her mother was stabbed to death in the Bronx. Now, an arrest based on DNA has brought her bittersweet relief.

The silent film “The Callahans and the Murphys” was pulled after an uproar over stereotyping. What happened next tantalized one fan of old movies.