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What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days
It had been a quiet April afternoon until about a dozen teenagers began running up Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville, yelling…
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How a Neurodiverse Musical Theater Artist Spends Sundays
Sarah Kaufman writes, acts, sings and makes podcasts and TikToks — and not to mention works a day job.
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‘I Whisked Myself Down to the Street in Search of a Guy With a Clipboard’
Seeking a crucial hour of quiet, observations while on the D and more reader tales of New York City in…
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Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.
The Latest: About 10 percent of offers to New York City’s most elite public high schools went to Black and…
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She Attacked Israel and the N.Y.P.D. It Made Her Law School a Target.
A student gave a commencement address at the famously progressive CUNY law school. Two weeks later, she was attacked by…
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Can New Jersey’s New Festival Top Coachella or SXSW? It Thinks So.
A new arts festival featuring local and marquee-name talent is coming to the Garden State.
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Tiananmen Exhibit Is ‘a Symbol of Defiance’
A new display on the 1989 massacre is set to open in Manhattan, two years after a Tiananmen museum closed…
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3rd Man Is Charged With Murder in Killing of Jam Master Jay
Jay Bryant is accused along with two other men of fatally shooting the pioneering D.J. of the rap group Run-DMC…
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Teenagers Resent Social Media. They Also Resent Efforts to Take It Away.
After the surgeon general warned that social media harms young people, young New Yorkers agreed. Some also said that the…
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It’s Millionaire vs. Billionaire in the Battle of the SoHo Pergola
Millions of Americans embarked on home-improvement projects during the pandemic. Many of those projects annoyed their neighbors. But in SoHo,…