The New York Times

Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to be maintaining a comfortable lead over her Republican challenger, Bruce Blakeman, in her re-election bid in New York.

The chiefs of staff for three deputy mayors were reassigned or dismissed, and the head of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s advance team was also let go.

Prosecutors say they also neglected the girl’s twin brother, who was hospitalized for malnourishment.

Mr. Lander, a Democratic congressional nominee from New York, had been helping Palestinian farmers. He said he was released after about three hours, but that other volunteers were still in custody.

The City Council speaker, Julie Menin, says the city will work to help drivers who will lose their jobs if a ban passes. Some could operate pedicabs in the park, she suggests.

Though the actor has long been a welcome screen presence, this is his first starring role in years. “To carry the whole thing, that’s a big responsibility.”

A collection of pictures depicting a Jewish family’s life before the Holocaust were sent on a wild journey through the Brooklyn Public Library system.

A man was found alone in his car on Tuesday night with a gunshot wound to his head, the police said.

Federal, state and city authorities conducted searches in New York City as the Trump administration investigates allegations at centers in states Democrats control.

A City Council hearing focused on why ambulances are taking far longer to respond than a decade earlier, with fewer hospitals and a shortage of emergency workers partly to blame.

The playwright Lauren Yee paints an amusing portrait of a Chinese American father-daughter relationship before taking audiences on a delightfully wild ride.

In a letter, the former student said she felt “unsupported” after hearing about an exchange between the school president and her sorority sister. Officials disputed her account of the conversation.

The latest weapon is a machine that shoots carbon dioxide into rats’ burrows. “They fall asleep — permanently,” a parks official said.

U.S. airports are required to hold a full-scale disaster drill every three years. Go inside a simulated plane crash at Kennedy Airport last weekend.