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Traveling from Cleveland by thumb, a wallet surfaces in Brooklyn and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Buffalo’s Arakan Rohingya community was rattled after a disabled man’s death. “Our worry comes from future incidents that may happen,” one resident said.

The artist Emine Yilmaz was shoved into a passing subway car three years ago. Six surgeries later, she’s drawing again.

The old Portal Bridge disrupted rail commutes in New Jersey for decades, frequently getting stuck when it swung to let boat traffic pass. Now a new bridge is open to the public.

Christopher Baldner, then a New York State trooper, rammed a family’s car during a high-speed chase in 2020, killing 11-year-old Monica Goods.

Faycal Manz, a German tourist, claimed that a taco had given him diarrhea, a Walmart store had discriminated against him and that an interaction with the police had given him insomnia.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Love Locks left behind were one thing. But when actual garbage (like tampons and condoms) started appearing, a righteous quest to remove it was born.

Two generations of one family have owned this restaurant in the Bronx, trying to change with the times while staying true to the borough.

Yasiris Ortiz, a 28-year-old star from the Bronx, is helping to bring free table tennis programing to children across the city.

The school also said that it would review policies about philanthropy and donor engagement after new revelations about the disgraced financier were made public.

The videos had been posted on YouTube by groups who were suing to restore grants cut by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The guilty verdicts marked the first time that terrorism charges had been successfully brought against purported members of antifa.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded to Islamophobic comments from Senator Tommy Tuberville and a Texas congressman, saying they were dehumanizing Muslims.

Transit officials said on Friday that the governor’s insurance proposals could save the authority millions of dollars that could be used to improve service.