Matthew Haag

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Haag |Katherine Rosman

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as "a dummy" and "a total moron."That drama dates back 25 years. Today, these two New York City institutions - the ostentatious billionaire president of the United States and the 270-year-old Ivy League university that has cultivated 87 Nobel laureates - are locked in an extraordinary clash.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Matthew Haag |David Andreatta

More than one million Canadians visited New York City last year, injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy. Now, they are canceling trips in droves. School groups have called off end-of-semester trips. So have busloads of retirees, as well as newlyweds planning honeymoons, friends celebrating birthdays and a family from Quebec that had planned to visit twice this year.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Haag |David Andreatta

More than one million Canadians visited New York City last year, injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy. Now, they are canceling trips in droves. School groups have called off end-of-semester trips. So have busloads of retirees, as well as newlyweds planning honeymoons, friends celebrating birthdays and a family from Quebec that had planned to visit twice this year.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Matthew Haag |Alex Lemonides

Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic tore through New York before any other large city in America, paralyzing the biggest municipal economy in the world and killing more than 46,800 residents. Offices closed, businesses shuttered and restaurants folded. Streets and sidewalks were bare while dire predictions spread. As soon as the pandemic subsided and life in the city began to approach normalcy, residents began asking the big question: Is New York City back?

Dec 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Matthew Haag

Paul was then 15, but he didn't know how to clean up after himself, what a thermometer was for or that he didn't have to wear his clothes to bed. Ms. Ryan recalled that despite his lack of schooling, he had an expansive vocabulary far beyond someone his age. She plans to formally adopt Paul in the coming years, after his family court case is fully resolved. "I feel extraordinarily lucky, like one in a trillion kind of luck," he said recently, sitting at a Starbucks in Manhattan after school.