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Ancestry’s clarification of a policy has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records.

Rescued from the Jamaica Bay mud, what a camera sees overnight and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

The man who was charged was the father of the 2-year-old, whose body was found near her mother’s, the authorities said. The case did not appear to be linked to the Long Island serial killings.

Dan Perlman, a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Bublé. And yet, for some reason, he was hired to impersonate the crooner at a birthday party.

Mr. Ramos, Lincoln Center’s artist in residence, makes breakfast for his daughter before heading to the Metropolitan Opera House and a photo shoot — and his own birthday celebration.

Winning the right to host the world’s most popular sporting event took years of planning, countless Zoom calls and a bit of luck with a broken-down bus.

The victim was sleeping on a train at Penn Station in Manhattan around 3 a.m. Monday when an 18-year-old man set him on fire, the police said.

The tolling program, decades in the making, has shown signs of being effective after a rocky rollout.

The rapper, who was sentenced to two years in prison after testifying for the government at a gang trial, was ordered incarcerated for probation violations.

Chi Ossé had hoped to ride the momentum of Zohran Mamdani to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, but he failed to secure the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America.

He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role of Bill and Hillary Clinton in a failed development venture.

The secretary of education is barnstorming the country, talking to schoolchildren about civics and promoting patriotism. Critics claim the lessons have been crafted by partisan and religious groups.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has turned to crypto kings, movie stars and an oil heir, among others, to help reach his $4 million goal to fund his transition and Jan. 1 inauguration.

This production, which retains many of the charms of its 2019 Broadway staging, has lost some of its necessary darkness.