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Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, has criticized the N.Y.P.D.’s surveillance tactics. He reappointed the police commissioner who helped create a ubiquitous web of monitoring.

Discovering a restaurant host’s daring back story, a Brooklyn feud and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.

Sidney, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains, hoped to attract job-creating businesses. But there was some unease when the recreational cannabis company Stiiizy moved in.

Ms. Rooks, a sports journalist, starts her day with matcha and ends with W.W.E. In between? A little glam and fitness.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a vital New York City artery. But for years now it’s been crumbling, and there is no consensus about how to fix it. Our reporter Winnie Hu goes to the B.Q.E. to unpack things.

The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the governor has yet to enact them.

Robert Menendez, a former Democratic senator, has been in prison since June. He hasn’t seen his wife, who is set to begin serving her sentence next summer.

At New York City Ballet, two boys from the School of American Ballet get to play a coveted role: Fritz, a terror of a little brother.

Crowds in New York City bundled up to take in the latest version of a tradition that has run for nearly a century.