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Oscar Belgal arrived in the city from the Dominican Republic in 2022. Chaos appeared to follow, ending in a fateful encounter with immigration agents.

Getting the hang of things uptown, pausing for a praying mantis and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Over two nights at Saint Vitus, the newly reopened venue, generations of metalheads made their pilgrimage.

A new documentary on Edward Said, the Palestinian American literary critic and activist who taught for decades at Columbia, brought New Yorkers together in a fraught political moment.

While the powerful board appeared to back campus administration, some students protested against the backdrop of homecoming weekend.

After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.

The Off Broadway shows “A Ghost in Your Ear” and “The 4th Witch” use aural and visual tricks to give you the seasonal spooks.

The cultural historian Joseph Sciorra, who has died, helped bring “a fieldworker’s eye and an archivist’s discipline” to his studies of Italian American culture.

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble at the Joyce Theater and Sreelakshmy Govardhanan at Danspace exemplified clear storytelling in two forms of Indian dance.

The student was a woman at the Fashion Institute of Technology, when a man, according to prosecutors, provided her and her roommate with fentanyl in a dorm room.

It was not clear what happened at the home of the girl, Fabiana Cabello, but a relative said she was a friendly child who helped her great-grandmother and hugged strangers.

This new musical aims to tell a sexy story about perversions and pleasures but ends up blandly nodding at eroticism.

On Open House weekend, the hundreds of attractions around the city include the Paradise Theater, second only to Radio City Music Hall in size and splendor.

Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across New York City in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.