Jennifer Peltz

The online listing boasted apartments with the amenities of a midtown Manhattan hotel: coffee in the lobby, luggage storage, a 15-minute walk to Times Square.

Of all the statistics from the recent New Year’s Eve in Times Square—1 million revelers, 2,000 pounds of confetti, thousands of police officers, dozens of surveillance cameras—there is one number that stands out: zero, as in zero tickets for low-level crimes.

Six-year-old Etan Patz was walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time when he vanished on May 25, 1979; the anniversary is now National Missing Children’s Day. His body has never been found, but his family had him legally declared dead in 2001.

A gunman who vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two New York City officers in a patrol car and fatally shot them in broad daylight before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.

NEW YORK—As one of the nation’s most infamous missing-child cases heads toward trial, a court is looking at a tool used long ago in the decades-old investigation: hypnosis.

Lawmakers said Wednesday they will ask the city’s new police watchdog to investigate how police track abuse complaints against officers, calling the request a step in the city’s response to a chokehold death that prompted calls for change.

Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, laid flowers Tuesday at one of New York City’s most somber sites—the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.

Anthony Marshall’s trial was a lens on the lives of the famous and monied, featuring testimony from the likes of Barbara Walters and Henry Kissinger.