Ashley Southall is a City Cannabis Correspondent at The New York Times. She covers themes related to cannabis and psychedelics, focusing on cannabis business and regulation. Ashley's work has been featured in several publications, including The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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By: Tracey Tully, Andrew Keh, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Ashley Southall, Neil Vigdor, Emma Goldberg, Maia Coleman, Dana Rubinstein, Sarah Nir
President Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are expected to attend Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals against the San Antonio Spurs at a raucous, sold-out Madison Square Garden.
By: Ashley Southall
Some fans at the world-famous basketball court in Harlem are swept up in the excitement of the N.B.A. finals with the Knicks one win from a championship.
By: Ashley Southall
Jalen Brunson could become the next Michael Jordan of baby names, but donāt expect more Victors or Wembys, the experts say.
By: Miles G. Cohen, Ashley Southall
NEW YORK -- A carriage horse that collapsed a week ago in Central Park died after eating a commonplace but poisonous plant, according to preliminary findings released on Tuesday.
By: Maya King, Jonah E. Bromwich, David Cheung, Ang Li, Tyler Pager, Jeremy Raff, Ishani Desai, Emma Goldberg, Matthew Haag, Andy Newman, Maria Cramer, Santul Nerkar, John Otis, Tania Ganguli, Dana Rubinstein, JosƩ A. Alvarado Jr., Ed Shanahan, Benjamin Oreskes, Ashley Southall, Eryn Davis, Aruni Soni, Jeff Mays, Sarah Maslin Nir
Mayor Zohran Mamdani paid tribute to the team at City Hall after their long-awaited parade up Broadway. āFor as long as we live, we will remember this feeling of a city together, a city alive, a city overcome by happiness,ā he said.
By: Ashley Southall, Chelsia Rose Marcius
The complex, which was once housed offices for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, is being converted to residences. Officials inspecting it found support columns were buckling, and upper floors were sagging.
By: Ashley Southall
A high-profile housing project near Grand Central Terminal was at risk of collapse Tuesday, prompting an emergency response during the morning rush in midtown Manhattan, the authorities said.
By: Santul Nerkar, Ed Shanahan, Hurubie Meko, Ashley Southall, Ryley Ober, Claire Fahy, Mihir Zaveri, Liam Stack, Caitlyn Freeman, Stefanos Chen
City officials set up a multiblock āfrozen zoneā around the building, a construction site near Grand Central Terminal. Beams were being brought in to stabilize the structure, the buildings commissioner said.
By: Mihir Zaveri, Ashley Southall
Offices and hotels around East 42nd Street were evacuated after structural damage affected an office conversion project. Traffic was halted in the area. No injuries were reported.
NEW YORK ā Twenty-one stories above a midtown Manhattan street early Tuesday morning, construction workers were busy converting an office building into a residential complex when it began falling apart.
