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Zohran Mamdani is known for working around the clock as mayor of New York City, but last week he and his wife headed “upstate” for vacation and some locals were thrilled to spot them.

DNA analysts at the New York City medical examiner’s office partnered with a squad of local detectives skilled at genealogical research.

Good box-office luck, a friendly stranger with a secret in Murray Hill and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Those who died were all on e-bikes. Seventeen cyclists have been killed so far this year, and advocate groups said the deaths should be a rallying cry for safety improvements.

State officials pledged reviews after The New York Times reported that Jessica Ramos billed her campaign for hotels and train fare while also receiving state travel payments.

Representative Thomas Kean Jr. was joined Friday on the campaign trail by House Speaker Mike Johnson. An aide to Mr. Kean blocked a reporter’s entry. Then the police were called.

A federal judge said that Michael Jeffries had shown “sufficient cognitive functioning.” His lawyers had argued that he could not understand the charges against him because of his mental state.

An awkward policy change casts doubt on how the tennis tournament’s popular free first week will work.

The ruling is a win for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who argued that the case be heard in Manhattan. The lawsuit challenging the rent freeze had been filed in Staten Island.

A woman who had been subject to domestic violence moved from New York to Florida with her children. The authorities continued to monitor her home, which an appeals court found was “a broad overreach.”