The New York Times

The U.S. Park Police put up a fence that a parks advocate says blocks the view of the Statue of Liberty. The agency says it’s needed for security.

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.

The city thinks four developments in Chelsea are too run-down to be saved, and wants to rebuild them, adding mixed-income housing. Some residents are opposed.

A Black woman is pushing for changes in the hair industry after claiming in a lawsuit that she and her 7-year-old were turned away from an Ulta Beauty salon in Manhattan because of their hair texture.

A man was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and assault in connection to a shooting on Wednesday that killed an infant.

A 43-year-old man was accused of abusing “multiple” children over a period of 11 years in South Jersey, and prosecutors fear there could be more victims, given his employment.

The plan faces significant local political opposition and the dilapidated state of the site poses considerable logistical challenges.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker, Julie Menin, both live on the Upper East Side. They are sparring over different approaches to balancing a $5.4 billion deficit.

Representative LaMonica McIver is facing crushing legal fees and prison time as she seeks to get the Justice Department assault case against her dismissed, citing her legislative prerogatives.

A Connecticut high school said that it was aware of the Instagram posts and that antisemitism is “repugnant and antithetical to our values as a school.”