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New York Today
July 7, 2025
Rachel Cherwitz sits on a brownstone stoop.

Start-Up That Promoted Female Pleasure Exploited Women, Prosecutors Say

OneTaste said it was dedicated to female empowerment. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say its founders abused those it recruited and left them “as shells of their former selves.”

By Santul Nerkar

Truffles and a small jar of caviar on a counter at the Farm & Forage Market in Southampton.

Move Over, $100 Lobster Salad. In the Hamptons, These Melons Cost $400.

Gourmet grocery stores are upping their game in the Hamptons, serving a welcoming wealthy clientele.

By Dionne Searcey

A hand on the knob of a door that carries a sign that reads, “Dr. Greeley.”

The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.

By John Freeman Gill

A sign at the entrance to Rikers Island with the insignia of the Department of Correction.

A Lawyer Was Wrongly Charged With Bringing Drug-Laced Papers Into Rikers

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the papers again.

By Taylor Robinson

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