Upper East Side State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright spearheaded a government hearing on elder financial exploitation on Tuesday, Dec. 2, which revealed the staggering—and expanding—scale of fraud ...

The Catholic Archdiocese of New York said it is selling the land that it owns under the Lotte New York Palace Hotel to the hotel owner for $490 million and will use the proceeds to finance a fund to ...

An 85-year-old man killed by a van while crossing the street less than a block from his home on Dec. 1 was identified by police as Janusz Gregory Gorzynski, a beloved psychiatrist who spent years ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said it establishing a $300 million fund to pay for survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and lay ...

Father Gary Graf has completed a nearly two-month trek to the Statue of Liberty from the Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home is located. A priest has walked all the way from Pope Leo ...

A fire wrecked an Upper West Side apartment building on the chilly morning of Tuesday, Dec. 9, with shooting flames essentially incinerating the top of the six-story structure. The Spirit witnessed ...

Skateboards clatter as tattooed teens whiz past benches filled with people resting, chatting, or simply taking in the scenes of the evening. The last glimmers of sunlight tinge the twilight sky lilac, ...

City Council Member Erik Bottcher has officially planted 1,000 trees throughout his Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen district as of Dec. 8, fulfilling a longtime mission of his. He also promptly promised to ...

The distinctively mustached maniac who allegedly set a homeless man on fire aboard a Times Square subway train on Monday December 1 has been charged for his crime. The horror attack occurred at ...

A New York Times editor uses a nom de plume to publish humor books that use Artificial Intelligence to develop cartoon art for an illustrated humor series. He hopes to go direct to consumers without a ...