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Today — 7 April 2025Main stream

In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding

The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Some 100,000 New Yorkers currently live in low-lying coastal areas affected by routine flooding. About half of them reside in the neighborhoods surrounding Jamaica Bay.

Man Is Shot by N.Y.P.D. After Attacking 4 Girls With Cleaver

The man may be related to the girls, who all survived, the police said. An 11-year-old called 911, and officers rushed to the house in Brooklyn where the children lived.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Investigators at the scene in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where the police said a man slashed four children before he was shot by officers.

Man Is Shot by N.Y.P.D. After Attacking 4 Girls With Cleaver

The man may be related to the girls, who all survived, the police said. An 11-year-old called 911, and officers rushed to the house in Brooklyn where the children lived.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Investigators at the scene in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where the police said a man slashed four children before he was shot by officers.
Yesterday — 6 April 2025Main stream

A Killer’s Archive Is Offered for $80,000. Who Should Profit?

5 April 2025 at 15:00
Albert Jones’s 11 books describe life in prison. His victims’ relatives say his family should not benefit from a sale of his story.

© Angelina Katsanis for The New York Times

Ben Kinmont, right, in blue shirt, deals mainly in antiquarian volumes, but also modern books concerned with “gastronomy and economic precarity.”
Before yesterdayMain stream

Review: Clooney, Fair and Balanced, in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

4 April 2025 at 22:18
George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.

© Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

George Clooney as the journalist Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night, and Good Luck” at the Winter Garden in Manhattan.

Queens Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Acting as Agent of China

20 March 2025 at 07:10
An Quanzhong, who will spend 13 months behind bars, harassed a resident whom China’s government wanted back home. His conviction was one of several that prosecutors have won against operatives in New York.
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