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Matthew Mahrer as a boy wrote a 25-page book about his grandfather’s experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi internment camp. Christopher Brown did favors for the Orthodox rabbi across the street, who needed someone to turn on electrical devices during the Sabbath or Jewish holidays. In November 2022, they were both in free fall. … Read more

Tortoiseshell Comb Dear Diary: I was on a bus going up Madison Avenue on a very slow weekday afternoon. We were averaging about a block per red light, and I had nothing to do but study the other passengers. One thing that caught my eye was the back of the head of a woman sitting … Read more

In the crowded race for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has become a magnet for attention, ascending in the polls and raising money through a mix of social media savvy and a plain-spoken, everyman approach. He has paid house visits to some of his thousands of small donors and taken a New Year’s … Read more

Fire crews in New Jersey were working overnight to contain a wildfire that was reported in a state park on Saturday and quickly grew to 1,000 acres, officials said. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service reported the blaze, known as the California Branch Wildfire, in Wharton State Forest on Saturday afternoon. Two campgrounds were evacuated, … Read more

The coach of a high school women’s basketball team from a community in New York’s Adirondacks was fired after he pulled a player’s ponytail at the end of a state championship game on Friday, the school district confirmed. Videos on social media and local television news show an older man yanking a distraught player’s hair, … Read more

Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university. Columbia University’s concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely … Read more

A man accused of stealing power tools from a hardware store died in a holding cell at a Brooklyn courthouse just before his scheduled arraignment on Friday, according to court records and the police. The man, identified as Soso Ramishvili, 32, was being held in police custody at the Kings County Criminal Courts Building in … Read more

The police in Las Cruces, N.M., said they were investigating a shooting at a park that left several people wounded. The Las Cruces Police Department would not confirm the number of injured or killed, but a journalist for The New York Times who was at the scene saw what appeared to be two bodies on … Read more

Printemps, a French department store that just opened its first American outpost in Lower Manhattan, is aiming to do what few stores of its ilk have lately done in that area: stay in business. The store at 1 Wall Street, about a five-minute walk from The New York Stock Exchange, is in a part of … Read more

Varun Kataria wore many hats before he became a nightclub owner. “I took a vow of unemployment at the age of 23,” Mr. Kataria, 41, said. “So I never had, like, a proper job since then.” He once owned a music studio in Minneapolis, where he was born and raised. He has taken travelers on … Read more