The New Yorkian

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

2 New York City Men Plead Guilty to Trying to Help the Islamic State The men pleaded guilty to charges that they plotted a pressure-cooker bomb attack in the city on behalf of ISIS, officials said. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…

De Blasio and Stringer Trade Barbs Over Police Body Camera Deal On a day when he could have been enjoying the city’s smooth response to the year’s first big snowstorm, Mayor Bill de Blasio instead picked a fight with the…

Rag & Bone Says No to the Runway Show The label celebrates its 15th birthday with an exhibition of portraits shot on a vintage Polaroid, the sitters in the new fall collection. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Bookshelf: Harlem Histories and Boardroom Lessons Two new books discuss the neighborhood’s significance in city history. A third, from a high-profile lawyer, offers 50 years of stories about corporate governance, and suggestions for improvements. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Gators in the Sewer? ‘I Want It to Be True’ Little evidence supports a longstanding legend of alligators living in the New York sewer system, but that doesn’t dissuade Manhattan’s historian. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times