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Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about what happened to a 7,500-pound chunk of a wall with a Banksy installation from 2013. We’ll also get details on a request from Mayor Eric Adams’s lawyer for a federal judge to hurry a decision on whether to drop corruption charges against the mayor. A dark-colored … Read more

In the middle of the night on Dec. 5, a woman in a Brooklyn apartment heard troubling sounds a few doors away: a boy wailing, a man shouting, women screaming and what seemed to be a hand striking bare skin. She texted 911. “They are beating a child,” she wrote to the dispatcher. “You can … Read more

In New York, playing to voters’ concerns about crime has become a popular strategy, successful enough that even left-leaning Democrats have embraced calls for more police officers. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist rising in the polls in the New York City mayor’s race, has chosen a different approach. His 18-page public safety plan, which will … Read more

Tension had been building at Princeton University as pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a white-columned, Greek Revival-style building at the center of campus and the police moved in. An angry crowd had surrounded a bus where two demonstrators were being held after officers led them out of the building. “It was a tense time as there were … Read more

As New York City voters tilt slightly toward the center, the left-leaning Working Families Party hopes that a slate of four mayoral candidates will be better than the one moderate rival currently leading the polls, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. The party on Saturday voted to endorse Zohran Mamdani, an assemblyman from Queens; Brad Lander, … Read more

The Trump administration has granted itself the authority to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of a violent street gang on the basis of little more than whether they have tattoos or have worn clothing associated with the criminal organization, new court papers show. The papers suggest that the administration has set a … Read more

A driver was charged with manslaughter in the deaths of a woman and two of her children in Brooklyn after slamming into another car and veering into a crosswalk, the police said. The driver, Miriam Yarimi, 32, was charged on Saturday evening with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless driving, speeding, failure to yield … Read more

An official in charge of helping people start cannabis businesses in New York City resigned abruptly last week as her agency was investigating an accusation that she tried to pressure another woman into a polyamorous relationship in exchange for a city contract. The official, Dasheeda Dawson, who stepped down last Tuesday from a program called … Read more

A lawyer for Mayor Eric Adams of New York urged a Manhattan judge on Monday to promptly rule on a pending motion from the Justice Department to dismiss federal corruption charges against the mayor. The lawyer, Alex Spiro, cited a Thursday deadline for Mr. Adams to file required petitions to appear on the mayoral primary … Read more

Domingo Tapia and Gary Anderson crossed paths for no more than a second, two lives colliding in a moment of grainy surveillance footage. Mr. Tapia, a 38-year-old Mexican immigrant who worked as a fruit vendor, had met his brother for a few beers on a summer evening in 2017. They had passed the time and … Read more