7 Deaths, 5 Hours: Drug Overdoses Surge in Western New York
Rising cocaine use and a drug supply tainted by fentanyl have become a deadly combination in Erie County, which includes Buffalo.
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Rising cocaine use and a drug supply tainted by fentanyl have become a deadly combination in Erie County, which includes Buffalo.
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The police say the man was driving while intoxicated and ran his S.U.V. into the salon, killing four people and injuring 10. His own injuries were not life-threatening.
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Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.
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In New York’s suburban and rural communities, where L.G.B.T.Q. people can feel more isolated, Pride events often hold special meaning.
By Liam Stack, Camille Baker, Nate Schweber and
A Storied Harlem Church Has a New Leader. Its Members Have Questions.
Behind the opaque process that just selected the next pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church.
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Reopen N.Y.C. Libraries on Sundays? Yes. Free 3-K for All? Not Quite.
Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached a $112 billion budget deal that restored some unpopular cuts to key programs.
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and
New Jersey Tells Trump’s Golf Clubs to Show They Deserve Liquor Licenses
The state said that former President Donald J. Trump’s felony convictions may mean he does not have the moral character to serve drinks.
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13-Year-Old Boy Shot and Killed by Police After Chase
Officers in Utica, N.Y., believed the boy had brandished a handgun. The police chief said on Saturday that it was a pellet gun.
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‘He Talked About Wanting to Be a Doctor and Ate His Chopped Cheese’
Stopping for food in the Bronx, a windy day on Third Avenue and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
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Officials did not immediately say what caused the crash, in Deer Park. Nine people were also injured.
By Alyce McFadden
He carved out a niche by singing the music of living composers from his own country. He was praised by critics at home and abroad.
By Adam Nossiter
After seven weeks of trial, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez are expected to begin calling witnesses on Monday to rebut the government’s case.
By Benjamin Weiser and Tracey Tully
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to call witnesses who will describe his childhood and the rocky start to his relationship with his wife.
By Tracey Tully and Benjamin Weiser
The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.
By Sarah Bahr
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
By Zachary Small
The number of people older than 65 who are living in shelters is growing quickly, in an unheralded sign of New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
By Andy Newman
While his peers were building Modernist towers, the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi devoted his life to restoring beautiful old buildings.
By William Falk
The authorities were searching for the detainee, a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness, after he eluded two guards at Bellevue Hospital Center.
By Jan Ransom and William K. Rashbaum
The watch, which was stolen in 1987, was returned Thursday to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site on Long Island.
By Christopher Maag
The City Council successfully pushed to reverse budget cuts that Mayor Eric Adams had proposed to libraries, cultural institutions and composting.
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.
By Clay Risen
Officials of the two transit agencies met in an impromptu meeting on Thursday called by New Jersey’s governor, Philip D. Murphy.
By Patrick McGeehan
A scramble for the Infowars host’s meager assets pits Sandy Hook victims’ families against one another in court.
By Elizabeth Williamson
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The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.
By Michael Paulson
“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.
By Michael Paulson
Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.
By Eric Umansky
This week’s properties are in NoMad, the East Village and Park Slope.
By Heather Senison
This week’s properties are waterfront homes in Massapequa, N.Y., and Margate, N.J.
By Jill P. Capuzzo and Claudia Gryvatz Copquin
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt the toll program could result in billions of dollars of cuts to planned subway improvements and the loss of over 100,000 jobs, according to new estimates.
By James Barron
New census numbers show the steepest drop in the city’s youngest age group in at least a decade as many families have left to live elsewhere.
By Winnie Hu and Troy Closson
Court papers said the “youth development specialists” took more than $50,000 in bribes to allow in items like razor blades, marijuana, alcohol and prescription pills.
By Karen Zraick
Juan Orlando Hernández connived with traffickers as his country became a base of operations for cocaine shipments to the United States.
By Colin Moynihan
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it is making drastic cuts to the transit system’s capital plan after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s halted the tolling program.
By Ana Ley
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Hitting New York’s East Village with Sabrina Fuentes, the 24-year-old frontwoman of the band Pretty Sick.
By John Ortved
Mr. Bowman’s win in 2020 seemed to herald an ascendant progressive movement. In 2024, the center is regaining power.
By Jesse McKinley and Nicholas Fandos
The man who walked a high wire between the World Trade Center towers is now 75.
By James Barron
Thousands of high-paying jobs in the state could be at risk if the funding that had been expected from congestion pricing is not restored, a new report says.
By Stefanos Chen
Michael Wilson, who writes about crime for the Metro desk, reported on a fire at a Manhattan cafe that could have been ruinous — had it not been for a passerby in a recycling truck.
By Michael Wilson
The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, like similar institutions across the city, was consumed by strife over how to manage education about the conflict.
By Katherine Rosman
While many contested races had moderate and left-leaning Democrats squaring off, the deciding factor seemed to be the power of incumbency.
By Jeffery C. Mays
The congressman, who lost to George Latimer, was the first “squad” member to fall, in a painful defeat for the Democratic left.
By Nicholas Fandos
John Mannion will challenge Representative Brandon Williams in what is considered one of the Democrats’ best hopes in the nation to flip a congressional seat.
By Grace Ashford
Mr. Avlon, an author and former CNN personality, defeated Nancy Goroff, a retired chemistry professor, in a race in eastern Long Island.
By Claire Fahy
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Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a member of the House’s left-wing “squad,” was defeated by George Latimer in a race that exposed Democratic fissures.
By Nicholas Fandos
Austin Amos assaulted a taxi driver in 2022 after he and a group of friends refused to pay the fare on a ride from Manhattan to Far Rockaway, Queens. Mr. Amos was 20 at the time.
By Alyce McFadden
The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
The judge who oversaw Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial loosened the rules governing what Mr. Trump can say about it, and said his gag order would be lifted after his July 11 sentencing.
By Ben Protess
The play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.
By Michael Paulson
District 15 dropped selective admissions for middle schools, and the schools are now more integrated than they were.
By James Barron
Representative Jamaal Bowman faces George Latimer in the state’s most-watched race, a costly contest that may speak to the Democratic Party’s direction.
By Claire Fahy
The health care system has stockpiles of medicine and has worked out “a lot of the kinks” since the Covid pandemic. But experts still have some concerns about a bird flu outbreak.
By Joseph Goldstein
Tyrese Haspil, 25, was convicted of murdering his former boss, the entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, and dismembering his body in 2020.
By Maia Coleman
An aide to Senator Robert Menendez testified that she had been asked to consult with an Egyptian intelligence officer who had befriended Nadine Menendez.
By Tracey Tully and Benjamin Weiser
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Rush-hour commuters at Penn Station faced a shutdown of close to an hour, followed by extensive delays, after Amtrak investigated a report of a problem with overhead wires.
By Shayla Colon and Hank Sanders
The majority-Republican Nassau County Legislature approved a bill that bars transgender athletes from playing at county-owned facilities on teams that match their gender identity.
By Claire Fahy
Yvonne Wu was waiting inside her ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Brooklyn when she came home with a friend. Ms. Wu turned her service gun on the two women.
By Maia Coleman
About 100 Israelis sued the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, saying it pays local employees in dollars that buoy the terrorist group. But the case faces high legal hurdles.
By Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman
Stefan Alexandru Barabas, 38, pleaded guilty to extortion after threatening a multimillionaire in her Connecticut home in 2007.
By Amanda Holpuch
As the city budget deadline looms, the targets of Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts are rallying their bases.
By James Barron
Mr. Bowman faces George Latimer in a House primary in New York that will test the party’s views on Israel and the strength of its left-wing faction.
By Claire Fahy
Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses to rebut the government’s bribery case as early as Wednesday.
By Tracey Tully and Benjamin Weiser
Standup scooters, electric unicycles, homemade contraptions of all sorts. New Yorkers have plenty of ways to get around.
By Christopher Maag
Dao Yin, a candidate for the New York State Assembly, turned in donor cards that were missing phone numbers and email addresses. Some had forged signatures.
By Jay Root and Bianca Pallaro
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The 30-year-old man, Alejandro Piedra, is accused of attacking a woman and two men, one of whom died.
By Chelsia Rose Marcius and Bernard Mokam
The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited a lack of evidence in deciding not to prosecute 31 of the 46 people charged in the takeover of Hamilton Hall.
By Chelsia Rose Marcius
More than eight million people in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont were under a tornado watch that expired on Sunday evening.
By Johnny Diaz
Birders and tourists flock to see a lone flamingo among the swans.
By Jacob Bernstein
Several State Assembly contests have become contentious as the June 25 primary nears, with the party grappling between moderate and progressive forces.
By Grace Ashford and Jeffery C. Mays
Turning to a local institution in a pinch, a tip about Beethoven and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.
By Sean Piccoli
Da Silvano was a celebrity hangout, drawing boldface names like Madonna, Barry Diller and Yoko Ono. It was often referred to as the downtown Elaine’s.
By Alex Vadukul
Leaked images showed the trio sharing disparaging text messages during an alumni group discussion last month about Jewish life on campus.
By Hurubie Meko
As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.
By Clay Risen
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders rallied with Jamaal Bowman on Saturday, three days before the primary on Tuesday.
By Nicholas Fandos and Claire Fahy
Alejandro Ramirez was one of two men killed in Upper Manhattan on Father’s Day. A 16-year-old has been charged in the deaths.
By Shayla Colon
Conflicts over the war have played out in protests, social media battles and a fight over flags on Fire Island during a time usually reserved for solidarity and celebration.
By Liam Stack
Lynn Bodnar Kelly, executive director of Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project, e-bikes through Brooklyn and roller skates to the beat of Beyoncé.
By Alix Strauss
Authorities suspended their search Saturday for the boys, 16 and 17, who were last seen on Friday being overtaken by a large wave in the waters off Jacob Riis Park.
By Victoria Kim and Alyce McFadden
The killing occurred during a dispute between two men just before 6 p.m. Friday at the West 175th Street A train station.
By Ed Shanahan and Shayla Colon
A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.
By Annie Aguiar
A shifting weather front and climate change temporarily turned the temperate state subtropical.
By Hilary Howard
Donald J. Trump claims the order has unfairly restricted his free speech rights ahead of his sentencing on 34 felony counts. He has nonetheless attacked the judge, prosecutor and justice system.
By Jesse McKinley and Kate Christobek
The annual Mermaid Parade in Brooklyn is a tacky yet spectacular extravaganza.
By James Barron
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An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.
By Michael Kimmelman
The city’s budget is being finalized, and arts institutions, from the big to the small, are fearing the worst.
By Ginia Bellafante
Global warming has led to more extreme weather earlier and later in the year, causing New Yorkers to rethink their relationship to the seasonal calendar.
By Hilary Howard
Nico Nuño-Kelley, 17, fell six stories from the roof of his Manhattan apartment building after vaping marijuana. His anguished family wants answers.
By Maria Cramer
The three cases are among several filed by opponents of the tolling program, which was halted by Gov. Kathy Hochul this month.
By Winnie Hu and Ana Ley
In June of last year, only 13 percent of ShotSpotter alerts were confirmed shootings, according to Comptroller Brad Lander.
By Alyce McFadden
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