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Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at how the spring-forward time change this weekend happens with some of New York’s most famous clocks. We’ll also get details on a filing due today in Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case. There are places in New York where the spring-forward time change this weekend will be noticeable … Read more

Among the close-knit Muslim community of Yonkers, Mr. Rajpoot was not known to be devout, according to Shabbir Gul, a community activist who also belongs to the Andalusia mosque; for years, he recalled, he saw him only infrequently at Friday prayers, dressed in jeans and with a clean-shaven face. But about two years ago, Mr. … Read more

In November 2022, Justin Brannan, a city councilman who represents a big patch of South Brooklyn, was worrying about a woman who had been living in the same spot on the street in his district for so long — at least since he took office in 2018 — that she had been immortalized on Google … Read more

Prosecutors in western New York on Wednesday provided disturbing new details about the killing of a 24-year-old transgender man, Sam Nordquist, who they said was sexually assaulted and tortured for several weeks earlier this year in a motel room in Canandaigua, N.Y. In an 11-count indictment accusing seven people of first-degree murder and a battery … Read more

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City insists that he is running for re-election. But if actions speak louder than words, evidence would strongly suggest otherwise. The mayor has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers in the June 24 primary, less than … Read more

Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more

A 4-year-old boy died on Tuesday after he was found near fentanyl in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, according to a senior law enforcement official. The police responded to a 911 call on Tuesday morning at the shelter where the boy was found, on Glenwood Road in the East Flatbush neighborhood, the official said. Emergency medical … Read more

For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recusing itself from investigating the death of a prisoner whom other inmates said was brutally beaten by guards. As occurred in the case of the earlier death, a special prosecutor will take over the inquiry into … Read more