Víctor Manuel Ramos

In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad

For a long time, the passageway was somewhat of a mystery. Theories included that it may have been a laundry chute or a secret passage for younger members of the family. @nytimes.com

The Sublime and Subversive Desire Paths of a Snowy New York

Desire lines often stem from necessity, at times when officials neglect human experience or certain regions altogether. @nytimes.com

10-Minute Challenge: A Painting of Time We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

"Our relationship with images has changed with the internet and digital photography. Many of us fall into an endless sea of images on social media as soon as we wake up, sometimes spending fractions of a second with them." @nytimes.com

Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...

A look at the battlefield technology used in immigration enforcement operations. @nytimes.com

Venezuela Suffers From a Century-Long Curse. Will the U.S. Inherit It?

Over the course of two decades, the country went from democracy to dictatorship. Its government nationalized foreign-owned assets and began a dangerous sparring match with the United States — only to run out of cash when oil prices crashed. @nytimes.com

Behind the photo: How a woman running from US bombs in Venezuela captured the night's fear and chaos A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets.

“Now I laughed, and I laughed when I saw the photo. My mom laughed, my friends too. They made stickers and memes and all that,” Camargo said. “But I still see the videos of what happened that day, of the explosions, I hear the sounds and I still feel this sense of panic.” @apnews.com

The Year in Pictures 2025 Reflections of Turbulent Times

Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured those and other events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. @nytimes.com

The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. @nytimes.com

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. @nytimes.com

Krasznahorkai's lecture, which he gave in Hungarian, ranged across topics such as old and new angels, human dignity, hope or the lack thereof, rebellion and his observations of a clochard — or tramp — on the Berlin subway. @apnews.com

10-Minute Challenge: The Two Fridas We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

Kahlo created this huge double portrait in 1939 around the time of her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera. One of her best-known works, it hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. @nytimes.com

Three irregularly-shaped squares stacked one atop the other; blue, unbleached titanium, and red (top to bottom), surrounded by a black outline with hints of under-lying light blue.

December 4: "Filmstrip" (2005) acrylic on canvas, 40 in. x 20 in. #ArtAdventCalendar

What to know about Somalia as Trump wants Somalis in the US to leave U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States “garbage” and wants them to leave.

Almost 58% of the Somalis in Minnesota were born in the U.S. And of the foreign-born Somalis there, 87% are naturalized U.S. citizens. @apnews.com

NYC’s Institute for Collaborative Ed. (ICE) has a branding problem The progressive public school now refers to itself as Ny.ICE, pronounced "nice," to avoid confusion.

Parents and staff at the Institute for Collaborative Education say those letters have taken on a grim connotation in President Donald Trump’s second term. @wnyc.org

A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.

The cantilever, which opened in 1954, was designed to be used for 50 years. The risks only go up as it continues to deteriorate year after year, even as its life span has been extended with interim measures. @nytimes.com

Young America faces an economic crisis There's no denying the misery for young people who can't find work.

Younger adults are facing the worst labor market shock in years, one far more acute than the rest of the population. @axios.com

How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women...

Today, 40% of all babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried women, a dramatic increase since 1960, when they made up only 5% of births. @nprnews.bsky.social

Frida Kahlo Portrait Sells for $54.7 Million, Her Auction Record

She called it “El sueño (La cama),” or “The dream (The bed),” bringing the artist’s preoccupation with the border between sleep and death into focus. @nytimes.com

Why the New York Bodega Is Here to Stay

They sold nostalgia: rice, beans, plantains, chorizo and other foods that were reminders of home. @nytimes.com #NYC

Right there with you.

Why Can’t New York Fix Penn Station? The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done in America: inertia.

Penn Station remains the busiest transit hub in the United States, with nearly double the number of daily passengers as the busiest airport. It is also widely abhorred. @nytimes.com

Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants

The bishops said they “oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people” and “pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone

Already loved it | "All jazz musicians set out early to find their own voice, their own sound, and the saxophone’s mix of reed and metal is a willing accomplice." @nytimes.com

Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit.

“It is really beautiful that I can still work. Physically and emotionally, it changes the quality of my life,” she said. @nytimes.com

A Girls Basketball Team Gave Up Its Title. Now It’s Getting National Attention.

This high school team in Oklahoma City forfeited the title earlier this year after their coach spotted a scoring error that incorrectly crowned them the champions. @nytimes.com

The picture shows a black-and-white photograph depicting a crow in profile. The bird is seen as a silhouette and sits on a coarse, gray concrete pillar from which metal rods protrude at the top. The background is a bright sky. The bird is located in the left third of the image, while most of the right half of the image is empty. The lighting conditions create a strong contrast between the dark bird and the bright sky.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about the colour #Black

#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical #MinimalMonday #minimalism #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #wildlife #blackandwhite #birds #stunday #photography #scape #nature #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. @propublica.org

In This Pageant, the Ugliest Face Wins

Contestants are judged on “the grotesqueness of the grimace and on the extent to which their facial features change,” according to the rules. @nytimes.com

Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery

“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.” @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

LI's Latino delis struggle amid ICE arrests Business owners reported sales drops as high as 50% since President Trump took office in January.

Customers don’t want to risk leaving home, getting nabbed by ICE agents and being sent thousands of miles away from their Long Island families, he said. @davidolson11.bsky.social in @newsday.bsky.social