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It was a highly unusual move by Justice Department leadership to direct a case that appears to involve accusations of lying to Congress to a division that normally focuses on civil rights abuses.

Rebecca Jones Gaston, who oversaw child welfare efforts for President Joseph R. Biden Jr., will lead the Administration for Children’s Services.

A shelter for delivery workers was proposed years ago. Then Mayor Zohran Mamdani decided that it needed to be finished within his first 100 days in office.

The mayor has observed the Passover holiday in several ways in recent days, including a left-wing event on Monday. He planned to hold a Seder for city workers in the evening at Gracie Mansion.

Scientists who recorded whale songs learned that the New York Bight, at the entrance to the harbor, attracts sei whales. Ships pose a risk to them.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been taking steps to try to strengthen his ties with Black voters, is issuing two reports that focus on the ways nonwhite New Yorkers are being left behind.

The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to leave his mark in the face of gentrification, which he says has diluted Harlem’s political power.

Andrew Hevesi, a lifelong Democrat and New York State assemblyman from Queens, was told his voter registration had been changed without his knowledge. He has a culprit in mind.

South Seaside Park on the Jersey Shore has just succeeded in leaving Berkeley Township and joining its neighbor, Seaside Park, but there are still more challenges ahead.

A powerful lawyers’ association is opposing a bill that would cap damages, but the ride-share company has spent millions lobbying state lawmakers to lower rates, some of the highest in the country.

Learning a memory trick at a bus stop, a lost neighborhood recalled and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.