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Yesterday — 8 October 2025Main stream

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

7 October 2025 at 23:58
He led his parents’ appetizing store, Zabar’s, for more than 70 years, turning it into an institution synonymous with New York.

© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Saul Zabar in 2014. He intended to become a doctor, but left college after his father died to help out with the family business. He never left.
Before yesterdayMain stream

What to Know About Carney and Trump’s White House Meeting

7 October 2025 at 17:02
President Trump on Tuesday is hosting Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who is seeking relief from U.S. tariffs. Few people expect any major concessions.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada during a meeting with President Trump at the White House in May.

Retrial in 1993 Buffalo Murder Case Ends With a Deadlocked Jury

7 October 2025 at 02:33
Brian Scott Lorenz’s conviction in the strangling of Deborah Meindl in a Buffalo suburb was set aside in 2023. A jury failed to reach a verdict in his retrial.

© Libby March for The New York Times

Brian Scott Lorenz in 1993, left, and in 2020. He has been facing retrial in a notorious murder.

In Ashes of Amazon Fight, Tensions Emerge in Huge Bet on N.Y.C. Housing

6 October 2025 at 21:34
Years ago, progressives defeated a plan to build headquarters for Amazon in Queens. Now a new kind of development is gaining their support.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

The Hunters Point section of Long Island City, Queens, would transition from warehouses and parking lots to more housing and green space under a proposed rezoning effort.
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