New York Today: New York Today: The State of Our City Monday: Mayor de Blasio’s annual address, immigration arrests, and the state of your block. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
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For Top Pinball Competitors, Jitters Only Help Coupling twitching fingers with strategy, pinball experts faced off in the New York State championship for the right to play at nationals next month. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Immigration Agents Arrest 600 People Across U.S. in One Week The raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement contributed to confusion over whether enforcement is escalating under President Trump. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Police Chiefs Say Trump’s Law Enforcement Priorities Are Out of Step Police chiefs and prosecutors fear reliance on punitive tactics will erode trust and cause more problems than they solve. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Metropolitan Diary: Two Toasts From a Dusty Bottle Two items uncovered while cleaning out a home summon memories of a birthday, a bar mitzvah and Eisenhower’s second inauguration. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Off the Runway: New York Fashion Week Day 4 Moments from the shows of TOME, Marcel Ostertag and Chloe Gosselin on the fourth day of New York Fashion Week. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Grace Notes: 9 Million Desserts, for Gabriel, Michael, Alessandra and More Chuck Piekarski has been the pastry chef for God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that prepares meals for people who are too sick to shop or cook, for over…
Harvey Lichtenstein, Who Led Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rebirth, Dies at 87 Serving 32 years as its president and executive producer, Mr. Lichtenstein reorganized BAM, and gave it a renewed purpose as a center for the performing arts. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician, Dies at 97 Whether it was in books or in conversation, Mr. Smullyan had a knack for adding a dash of whimsy to the logic puzzles he devised. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
F.Y.I.: Long Before a Harlem Deer’s Reprieve, Clemency for a Cat A cat named Tammany was living happily at New York City Hall in the 1930s. Then came talk of eviction proceedings. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Graduation Rate in New York State Hits a New High: 79.4% Officials cheered the rising rate, but changes to graduation requirements in 2016 made it hard to know whether schools were improving or if students were simply clearing a lower…
Conflicting Views on a Wider Police Use of DNA At a public meeting, experts shared their views on whether investigators should be able to study the DNA of relatives of crime suspects. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Knicks Invent New Type of Loss as Owner Banishes Charles Oakley James L. Dolan made the announcement on Friday on ESPN Radio after the former Knicks star was forcibly removed from the arena on Wednesday night. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Sports of The Times: James Dolan’s Garden Is Falling. Run. The Knicks’ handling of the Charles Oakley episode and the owner James L. Dolan’s comments, on top of everything else, have been stunning. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Former A.I.G. Executives Reach Settlement in Accounting Fraud Case Maurice Greenberg fought New York’s attorney general for over a decade, but he and another A.I.G. executive have settled the case for almost $10 million. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times