He Said He Loved Her. Then He Went to the F.B.I.
He turned informant to foil a murder-for-hire plot. Or was he just an ex-lover seeking revenge?
John DiRubba told the F.B.I. that his girlfriend plotted to have him hire a hit man to kill her husband and Mr. DiRubba’s own teenage daughter.Credit.Matthew McDermott/Polaris
By Ed Shanahan
April 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
John DiRubba fell hard for Valerie Cincinelli. He can’t really explain it, just love at first sight.
He was living in Queens, and she was a police officer assigned to the local precinct. One day while she was out on patrol she stopped when she saw him washing his car. They began to chat, and she told him she was married.
The Return of High Schools in New York City
It’s Tuesday.
Weather: High around 60, with clouds giving way to sun. It’ll stay balmy for the next few days.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until March 28 (Passover).
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West Brooklyn Community High School reopened in early March after it was forced to shut down for three weeks due to a spike in coronavirus cases in the immediate neighborhood.Credit.Kathy Willens/Associated Press
With only a few more months left in the school year, tens of thousands of high school students in New York City will be allowed back in classrooms in the coming weeks.
The Misogynistic âDating Coachâ Who Was Charged in the Capitol Riot
Samuel Fisher left a long trail of videos and social media posts that reflect the views of a fringe faction of disgruntled men who became fixated on President Donald J. Trump.
Prosecutors said Samuel Fisher, also known as Brad Holiday, wrote online that seeing the police run from the mob at the Capitol was âthe coolest thing ive ever seen in my life.âCredit. via F.B.I.
Feb. 4, 2021
For $150, Brad Holidayâs customers could purchase and download a package of dating tips and tricks he called his âAttraction Accelerator.â The batch of files featured advice from Mr. Holiday, a self-styled Manhattan dating coach, about things like the best facial serums and pickup lines, and his thoughts on the viciousness of the opposite sex.
Jose Gabriel Martinez, who died of the coronavirus in April, was at the heart of his family’s New Year’s Eve celebrations every year. “I’m going to seal 2020 for life,” his son said. “I don’t want to come back to it.”
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This Is Not the Way New Yorkers Normally Greet a Major Snowstorm
Sleds were sold out all over as the city, for once, met an oncoming nor’easter with a measure of delight.
Credit.George Etheredge for The New York Times
Published Dec. 17, 2020Updated Dec. 18, 2020
It’s a New York City nightmare: a midweek nor’easter that dumps almost a foot of snow before the morning commute, snarling traffic, shutting down airports and commuter train lines, slowing subways and forcing parents to somehow work around small children thrilled by a day off from school.
But this is 2020. The snow day began nine months ago. And in the sort of reversal that could only happen in this pandemic era, the city’s heaviest snowstorm in years was, to many, a most welcome change, something new to look at from the windows that New Yorkers have lived behind since March.