Catched from the NYtimes

The people who know playgrounds best want a pink basketball court, hair-braiding station, and pollinator garden.

Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ordered prosecutors to explain why they moved to drop a bribery case against Gautam Adani, after they said they did not want to “devote further resources.”

Carmella Charrington, elected on Tuesday as a Democratic district leader in Brooklyn, said it was a “mistake” to recirculate a post supporting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Residents in the Caribbean enclave in Brooklyn worried about returning to a crime-ravaged country after President Trump was allowed a path to deport them.

The earthquake that leveled buildings and killed hundreds compounds years of grief for Venezuelans whose country has experienced political and economic collapse.

In a rare interview, Stanley Patz said he hoped that a decision reinstating the conviction of Pedro Hernandez would end the ordeal of going to court and reliving the day of his son’s disappearance.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to freeze rents for rent-stabilized apartments became a centerpiece of his campaign. Six months into his first year, a city panel delivered.

The city had accused Jasmine Ray of fiscal mismanagement. She said that she had been unfairly targeted because of her ties to the former mayor.

The former film producer was convicted on a single count of criminal sexual act against another accuser last year, and is awaiting sentencing in September.

After democratic socialists captured two House primaries and several state legislative contests in New York, the group’s leaders mulled how to use their expanding influence.