The Details
Trading Places, in Style
By JULIE LASKY
A new home-exchange website lets you inhabit magazine-perfect residences, but only if you qualify.
Hamyd Mourad, 18, suspected in an assault on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, walked into a police station northeast of Paris and gave himself up. The other suspects are two brothers, Said and Chérif Kouachi.
A new home-exchange website lets you inhabit magazine-perfect residences, but only if you qualify.
Designated a historic district, the Brooklyn enclave exudes a suburban feel, with its large detached houses that have a bounty of architectural flourishes like open porches.
An architect’s dream home coexists with industrial surroundings.
Lena Dunham and her fellow “Girls” celebrate the new HBO season.
Former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo was eulogized on Tuesday by his son, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who called his father “the keynote speaker for our better angels.”
A road trip across the island revealed a slowly changing Cuba — beautiful, tired and looking ahead.
Nourishing stock is popping up on restaurant menus and replacing caffeine in the cups of Americans on the run.
The art dealer Larry Gagosian and the chef Masayoshi Takayama have collaborated on an overview of Japanese cuisine.
In the third round of the F.A. Cup on Sunday, Yeovil Town, which plays two divisions below the Premier League, drew mighty Manchester United to its tiny stadium.
Ms. Myerson, the only Jewish Miss America, was one of a select group of American figures to parlay pop culture celebrity into positions of influence in government.
As the seaport poises for yet another transformation, with plans for a new mall and apartment tower, an artist recalls the neighborhood she documented decades ago.
The snub by many uniformed officers watching the funeral of Officer Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn showed a willingness by the rank and file to disregard their leadership.
Some 40 exhibitions of the artist’s work — much of it previously unseen by the public — will be flooding university art museums and institutions this year.
Known for one of the strictest home-school laws in the nation, Pennsylvania has relaxed some requirements, and that has brought it to the forefront in a lobbying war.
The debate over an Olympic stadium to be built for the 2020 Summer Games illustrates how the structures have become potent symbols of architectural prowess and economic pride.
Over the past decade, poppy cultivation and the opium it produces have flourished as poor farmers turn to the profitable crop.
High-end shopping malls are thriving across the country, but as midtier retailers like Sears and J. C. Penney flounder, they are also dragging down their malls.
The spa industry is going way beyond mother-daughter manicures to offer a range of massages, facials and other treatments for young girls (and sometimes boys).
Selfie sticks help you keep your distance, and your arm out of the requisite photo.
When the photographer Theo Zierock looked beyond the excitement of horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, he found a building populated by lonely old men.
Hayao Miyazaki has received an honorary Academy Award after a career of animated films including “Princess Mononoke,” “Spirited Away” and “The Wind Rises.”
A group of Bronx residents, train enthusiasts, historians and others want to repurpose stretches of little-used or abandoned railroad tracks for recreational use.
An elegant home at 775 Park Avenue, lovingly restored in homage to the building’s architect, is poised to enter the market for the first time in 26 years.
Ricardo Steak House, in East Harlem, is an unapologetic party spot, attracting people of all walks, races and ages.
A home visit with Corky Pollan, New York magazine’s weekly former Best Bets columnist.
Mr. Cuomo, a spellbinding orator and colorful personality who flirted with running for the presidency, lived to see his son Andrew follow in his footsteps as governor.
Images from Thursday’s college football bowl games, including the College Football Playoff’s two semifinal games: the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.; and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
Officials in Las Cruces, N.M., transformed an encampment in a dangerous part of the city into a hub of services for homeless people.
“A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America,” at the American Folk Art Museum, includes more than 60 choice objects made between 1800 and 1920.
A legend in Indian art, V. S. Gaitonde looked westward, eastward, homeward and inward to create an intensely personalized version of transculturalism.
At Soy, Etsuko Kizawa dishes out an overtly maternal version of Japanese comfort food in what feels like an offshoot of her apartment.
Celebrations, with light shows, fireworks and even a camel ride, ushered in 2015.
Thousands of students travel to Maotanchang to spend 16 hours a day, seven days a week, studying for the biggest test of their lives.
A writing table anchors a home built on a grandfather’s tragic legacy.
Building a loft in Portland, Ore., suffused with local character and treasured flaws.
In Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, Ebola is not just affecting immune systems but also the bottom lines of businesses and governments.
In the new year, the country becomes the 19th nation to adopt the euro, and the likelihood of economic and geopolitical security looms large for many.
On May 10, 1814, a twin-hulled boat called the Nassau carried 549 passengers across the East River to Manhattan. Thus was the concept of commuting born.
The vast majority of Greeks are still experiencing the hardships of reform, with little evidence that the measures are working.
A poor state with a starkly unhealthy populace, Kentucky is becoming a symbol of the Affordable Health Care Act’s potential, and its obstacles.
In Cuba, artists are cut off from supplies and the Internet yet celebrated by a coterie of international buyers, a pipeline that is likely to grow.
In the dark hours of the morning, some of television’s biggest celebrities are already rolling out into the streets of the city that never sleeps.
Turning a disused bridge into a public park could link some of the district’s tourist-oriented neighborhoods with Anacostia, one of its final frontiers in the march toward gentrification.
The head of the agency searching for Flight 8501 said that he believed the aircraft was “at the bottom of the sea” and warned that the country lacked adequate equipment for an underwater search.
Two new clinics in Haiti for treating cholera and tuberculosis could be models for other struggling countries that lack resources for high-end Western-style hospitals.
More than 20,000 police officers came together for the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, who was fatally shot in his patrol car on Dec. 20, at Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.
The town of Lüliang in Shanxi Province, whose coal helped fuel China’s economic boom, is at the center of a crackdown that challenges the close ties between business and government.
Camel racing has been part of Arabian culture for generations, but the widespread use of robots as jockeys is giving the sport a modern twist.
Chinese retailers, trying to appeal to shoppers who prefer goods made overseas, choose brand names that sound foreign, even if they don’t make sense in a foreign language.
The wake and memorial service for Officer Rafael Ramos attracted hundreds of police brethren in their dress blues to a church in Queens, and many more who watched on jumbo screens outside.
From Bâtard to Russ & Daughters Cafe, the restaurants that brought a fresh perspective to the dining scene this year.
From a hot roast beef sandwich at Bar Primi to sashimi with Japanese chimichurri at Cagen, Pete Wells names his favorite dishes of 2014.
Ken Schles, who photographed a Manhattan neighborhood in the mid-80s, edited the work into two books, one in 1988 and one this year, whose tone is strikingly different.
The fashion designer Rachel Antonoff is subletting Lena Dunham’s apartment.
The opportunity to feel how the Kathakali spell affects audiences in India deepens the pleasure of watching it.
A fashion editor and a principal find their destinies are intertwined.
At Gem Wheelchair & Scooter Service, the main attraction is a fleet of motorized wheelchairs and scooters, all lined up as if at a Mini Cooper dealership. But Gem’s true calling is its repair business.
From the Doors to the Ramones, Danny Fields witnessed a revolution from the inside, and kept records.
Local vintners are fighting a project under which tens of millions of gallons of liquefied petroleum gas, and up to two billion cubic feet of natural gas, would be stored in caverns near Seneca Lake.
Vast numbers of children today are victims of violence, objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers, he said.
The favorites among the corners, counters and places to eat (or slurp or gulp) standing up that Ligaya Mishan reviewed in the past year.
The Gotham City Cheerleaders, who are not affiliated with the Giants, perform at the team’s home games — in the parking lot.
“Degas’s Little Dancer” is a small show at the National Gallery of Art, but full of reasons Degas gained a following.
Phyllis Atwood’s son, Jamel, has autism, and slight variations in his routine can be jarring. His birthday celebration was part party and part prayer.
Rare images from an unpublished 1950 Life Magazine project record the legacy of racial segregation in Parks’s Kansas hometown.
A couple does reconnaissance on a townhouse in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, before buying and renovating it.
An area on the Upper West Side is undergoing changes that make it more desirable for new residents, but that also raise purchase and rental prices.
Raúl Castro’s decision to normalize relations was driven by economic interests, but his government seems intent on opening markets only a crack.
For those who sell Christmas trees in New York, the hours are long and the conditions cold and lonely, but they bring a dedication to their tradition.
Driven by a growing environmental movement and mounting pressure from Western consumers, corporate and government leaders are making a new push to slow the cutting of rain forests.
No one knows how many Cubans are capable of playing in the major leagues, although scouts around the island place the number in the many dozens.
Botequim is a Brazilian restaurant that takes some searching.
If the Danny Bowien comeback is officially underway, no one seems more relieved about it than Mr. Bowien himself.
With four carts, a restaurant in the East Village and one on the Upper West Side, Halal Guys patrons can’t get enough of the white sauce.
To the far right National Front, France’s most popular fast-food import from the East represents nothing less than a threat to the country’s identity.
In Cuba, from the baseball games on the fields to those played in streets with balls wrapped in duct tape, it’s a love pursued amid the ruins.
FedEx and UPS are aiming to avoid last year’s chaos, when a late surge in shipments and bad weather left many gifts to be delivered late.
As Cubans absorb the news that the United States will begin normalizing relations with their government after more than five decades of hostility, they are contending with a rush of both excitement and uncertainty.
A presidential nomination for Bernard Sanders, an independent Vermont senator, may seem far-fetched, but he does have a chance to shape the debate — if he runs.
Barton Silverman, an esteemed sports photographer, is retiring from The New York Times after a five-decade career capturing “the peak of action.”
Seeing the city from the sidewalk, not the freeway, opens a visitor to quiet wonders that would be lost at 60 miles per hour.
Voice Charter School in Long Island City, Queens, credits its focus on music with its students outpacing their peers on New York State math and English exams.
Josh Liberson is a minimalist. Brooke Williams is a maximalist. Diplomacy is required.
On Fridays, the greeting “Shabbat Shalom” is heard constantly at Kings Highway Glatt, a corner butcher on East Second Street at Kings Highway, the thoroughfare that splits the bucolic side streets of Gravesend, Brooklyn.
A home convenient to city and airports, with a recording studio on the premises.
Ms. Cuomo, the editor in chief of Manhattan and Beach magazines, is part of a a media power couple, with her husband, Christopher, a television journalist and the anchor of “New Day” on CNN.
The spate of entertainments this year, in a never-ending loop of galas and parties, brought with them a problem: How to traverse it all?
With camera and torch in hand, the British photographer Simon Norfolk casts climate change's inexorable advance in a new light.
The U.S. will open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half century after the release of an American contractor held in prison for five years, officials said.
The Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art” displays African sculptures that go against the tide of most work from that continent.
The Crusader Bible and the Winchester Bible are vastly different handmade medieval works that will be on display this winter in museums.
Mr. Rubio, Republican of Florida and a likely presidential candidate, will find out on just which side of the polls — and history — he stands.
Along this 21-mile stretch of road in the eastern corner of the country, the soundtrack is the echoing bong of instruments made there.
Some key style moments this year included Lupita Nyong’o in a Prada dress at the Oscars, Amal Alamuddin in an Oscar de la Renta wedding dress and Rihanna in a see-through gown at the CFDA’s. Here are some noteworthy dressers.
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Your guide to the year’s most important meal, with our best recipes, videos, techniques and tricks.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
For the first time in over a decade, New York City will vote in a new mayor. A look back at the 2013 primary campaign for mayor in New York City, in photographs.
More than 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the war, according to the United Nations. The New York Times visited the homes of four of them to hear their stories.
Uncertainty about how an outside attack could affect Syria’s civil war is one of the factors leading to disagreement among Western countries about how to respond.
In a five-part series of reports on young, under-the-radar fashion designers we visit each at a different stage in the process as they prepare for New York Fashion Week.
At age 55, the jockey Russell Baze is still making all the right moves
in a dangerous sport.
More than 50 ways to make use of the things you’re most likely to find in a market or your C.S.A. basket.
New York may be noisier than ever, but pockets of peace exist – if you know where to look. Here is a selection from readers.
Browse archival photographs, video and articles chronicling the city’s quest for quiet.
Revel in the season with a pie (or a tart, or a cobbler). Here are 20 recipes to carry you through the warm months.
Lynda Obst, Mike Vollman, Erik Feig and others help The Times make the next big tent-pole movie.
Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.
The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.
A sequence revisiting how Chicago’s Nate Robinson, one of the best at teardrop shots, scored over the Nets’ Brook Lopez in a game at the end of the season.
About 120,000 Syrians are calling the tents and trailers of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan home, at least for the foreseeable future.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.
One suspect in the Boston bombings is dead and the second was taken into custody Friday night.
Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times photographer, set up a studio at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week and invited Best of Breed winners to pose.
New York City was a vastly different place when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address in 2002, and his focus has shifted on various issues.
Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and others with Super Bowl experience share the advice they have given their teammates.
European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.
Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the Times news desk who oversee the content, design and production of Page 1.
Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34 years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent company.
A day-by-day recap of the conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Emotional victories, stunning defeats and fierce competition from the Olympic Games.
See the most prominent vocal producer in the music industry, Kuk Harrell, in action, and then listen along with him as members of the girl group Calvillo perform a part of their song “Right Now.”
A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Josh Young from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
What has happened after 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.’s.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer’s disease.
Photos from France, Lebanon, India and the United States.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.