Union Square Park in Manhattan erupted in chaos on Friday after a throng of what the police estimated to be several thousand young people descended on the area, drawn by the chance to receive...
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The Polygon and the Avalanche: How the Gilgo Beach Suspect Was Found
They called it the polygon.Using phone records and a sophisticated system that maps the reach of cell towers, a team of investigators had drawn the irregular shape across a map of tree-lined streets in...
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The Gilgo Beach Victims Were Always More Than Escorts
Just as there is no single form of poverty, there also is no distinct set of family patterns or life circumstances that leads to the choices these women made. No formula exists to explain...
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Violent Druggings in Lower Manhattan Left a Trail of Bodies, Police Say
In one robbery, the perpetrators smeared white powder laced with fentanyl under the victim’s nose. In another, they offered someone marijuana laced with the drug and waited for the person to fall unconscious, the...
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The Last-Known ‘Colored’ School in Manhattan Becomes a Landmark
For years, New York City Department of Sanitation workers ate their lunch in a three-story yellow brick building on West 17th Street in Chelsea without knowing its history: It was once a “colored” school...
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With Cheers and Tears, ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Ends Record Broadway Run
“The Phantom of the Opera” concluded the longest run in Broadway history Sunday night with a glittery final performance at which even the production’s signature chandelier, which had just crashed onto the stage of...
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Opinion | What Are America and China Fighting About, Anyway?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — I just returned from visiting China for the first time since Covid struck. Being back in Beijing was a reminder of my first rule of journalism: If you don’t go, you don’t...
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‘It’s Scary’: Gay Men Confront a Health Crisis With Echoes of the Past
It was happy hour at a gay bar in Harlem, 4West Lounge, and the after-work crowd had come to drink rum punch and watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”But instead, perched on stools, the men talked...
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Central Park’s Boathouse Restaurant to Shut Down
The Loeb Boathouse in Central Park, an iconic restaurant and venue that has appeared in a number of film classics and has drawn New York tourists and high society alike for decades, will shut...
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Ivana Trump, Ex-Wife of Donald Trump and Businesswoman, Dies at 73
Ivana Trump, the glamorous Czech American businesswoman whose high-profile marriage to Donald J. Trump in the 1980s established them as one of the era’s quintessential New York power couples, died on Thursday at her...
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