New York Restaurateur Hans Pauli Has Died and other top stories.

• New York Restaurateur Hans Pauli Has Died

  

  Hans Pauli started Sant Ambroeus, his New York pasticceria and cafe in 1983 serving, “the luxuries of Italy, in an understated, Giorgio Armani kind of way,” ...

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• 5 Shows to See in New York When You Have Only an Hour

  

  Crunched for time but still want to see a show in New York? Here are five productions this month that will take about a “Homeland” episode of your time, with room enough for dinner — or a “Walking Dead” binge — afterward. Video Excerpt: 'Wakey, Wakey' January LaVoy and Michael Emerson in a scene from this new Will Eno play at the Pershing Square Signature Center. By SIGNATURE THEATER on Publish Date February ..

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• Trauma, Then Triumph: The New York Times College Scholarship ...

  

  The program, which began in 1999 and is financeed by reader donations, has helped put hundreds of students through school, including many at top-tier institutions such as Harvard University, New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On a recent trip to the New York Times building, Ms. Montgomery gathered with the nine other scholarship winners in a conference room with a bird’s-eye view of Midtown Manhattan, where they posed for photographs, listened to advice about uni..

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• Jacques Torres Opens Choco-Story New York, Manhattan's First ...

  

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A new museum has opened its doors in SoHo and if you haven’t seen it, you might have smelled it. Manhattan’s first ever chocolate museum is now open for business. Choco-Story New York, The Chocolate Museum and Experience with Jacques Torres, focuses on the origin and evolution of chocolate. PHOTOS: Inside Manhattan’s First Chocolate Museum “My goal is to teach what chocolate is,” Torres told CBS2’s Raegan Medgie. “I don’t think my customers understand what it takes to ma..

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• Women's Strike Organizers Arrested in New York on a Day of ...

  

  Police in New York arrested three leaders of the Women’s March movement for blocking traffic outside the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday as they took part in the global “Day Without Women” strike, called to mark International Women’s Day. Shortly after they were detained, the group’s Twitter feed shared images of Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez inside a New York Police Department van with other activists. As Dayna Tortorici explained last week in the journal n+1, women..

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• 'Day Without a Woman' Protest Tests a Movement's Staying Power

  

  Some questioned the decision to call a strike at all. “In order to work, a general strike has to actually stop something from functioning,” said Todd Gitlin, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society who has written about political movements. “Anywhere it hasn’t done that can’t be counted as a success. It plays to your inner audience, not your outer audience.” The strike’s leaders tried to manage expectations from the start. “The object for us isn’t that we hope to shut the whole ..

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• Snow expected for Friday morning commute following warm week

  

  Please enable Javascript to watch this video NEW YORK — After a warm, Spring-like week, winter returns as 1-3 inches of snow is expected to dust the tri-state area Friday. Clouds will begin to increase late in the day on Thursday as a cold front settles just south of New York. It could initially start out as some showers along the coast late Thursday night but eventually colder air moves in allowing for a changeover to snow. The snow should last through the morning commute before it fin..

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• DA: New York-Virginia gun ring dismantled

  

  NEW YORK (AP) -- An undercover cop in New York City bought 217 assault weapons, tommy guns and handguns, dismantling a trafficking ring that exploited Virginia's looser gun laws and sent sellers north on buses with bags full of weapons, prosecutors said Wednesday.Traffickers were caught on wiretaps bragging about their ability buy guns for resale, authorities said. They used code words like "chopper" and "joint" to peddle the weapons, investigators said. Ammunition was "food.""There's no limit ..

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• Health Groups Denounce GOP Bill as Its Backers Scramble

  

  House Republicans have been left scrambling to marshal support from businesses and other interests that stand to benefit from lower taxes if the bill passes. Insurers are on the fence, and other powerful forces like pharmaceutical companies remain largely on the sidelines. Squeezed between wary health care providers and angry conservatives who believe that the bill leaves too much of the Affordable Care Act in place, the Republican leadership and President Trump appear to be facing an uphill cl..

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• Did the New York Times already tell us Trump was 'wiretapped'?

  

  The New York Times has a dilemma. Like every other newspaper, the Times characterized as baseless President Trump’s recent accusation that his campaign was wiretapped. Or, more precisely, the paper said that Trump didn’t provide any evidence of the alleged wiretapping. Fair enough. Trump didn’t give any proof. He just sent out one of his infamous tweets. But does that mean he’s wrong? I’ll get back to that. The reason the Times has a dilemma is that, on Jan. 20, the paper ran a front page story..

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