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It’s Never Too Late to Follow Your Spiritual Calling
After coming out as a transgender woman more than two years ago, Vica Steel never dreamed of forging a path to church leadership. Until now.
The New York Times
Some Hotels Are Mandating Vaccines. Will Others Follow?
Following the lead of accommodations abroad, some U.S. hotels are starting to require proof of vaccination for guests and staff.
The New York Times
In Vermont, Isolating Inmates Kept Covid at Bay, but at a Price
The state prison system is the only one in the nation where no one has died of Covid-19. But the strict lockdowns and quarantines that slowed the virus created their own problems.
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Incarcerated and Infected: How the Virus Tore Through the U.S. Prison System
Starting in March of last year, New York Times reporters tracked every known coronavirus case in every correctional setting in the United States, including state and federal prisons, immigrant detention centers, juvenile detention facilities, and county and regional jails.
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Covid Outbreaks Devastated Prisons, but State Inmates’ Access to the Vaccine Varies Widely
A state-by-state patchwork of vaccine rules has left prison inmates with different outlooks even as the C.D.C. has recommended prioritizing them.
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In a first, a federal judge orders Oregon state prisons to vaccinate inmates.
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Three News Hubs, 24-Hour Coverage: The Times’s Global Relay
From New York to Hong Kong/Seoul to London, journalists can collaborate around the clock to report on a breaking story.
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Printing History, as It Happens
Working an election carries special significance. Here is how the group that produces the print newspaper has geared up for Tuesday. (And Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.)
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‘If No Tourists Come, I Have No Business’: New York’s Tourism Crisis
International arrivals to New York are down as much as 93 percent, and the people and businesses of the city’s tourism industry are on the brink.
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How a #BlackLivesMatter Leader Spends His Sundays
For Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of a movement in New York, the activism does not let up on the weekend.
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Police, Protests and Violence: How Times Video Experts Examine a Scene
In analyzing footage involving fatalities or accusations of brutality, the Visual Investigations unit pursues the truth, frame by frame.
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Remembering One Tragedy in the Shadow of Another
This year’s 9/11 ceremony captured not just a city still grieving those lost nearly two decades ago, but one enduring a pandemic that has claimed many more lives.
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2 Killed in Jet Ski Crash as Waters Get Crowded During Pandemic
With people who have been cooped up flocking to personal watercraft, the deaths highlight concerns about boating safety.
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‘You Have to Be Willing to Get a Bit Uncomfortable’: How a Reporter Covers a Protest
A lot of thought goes into how best to capture the scene and the individual stories behind it, but in the end, anything can happen.
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Shattered Glass in SoHo as Looters Ransack Lower Manhattan
As the protesters moved north, fringe groups hung back, setting fires, breaking windows and grabbing goods from a string of luxury boutiques.
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Carvel H. Moore, Who Found a Career in Bettering a City, Dies at 90
Ms. Moore, an early proponent of business improvement districts across New York City, died of complications of the coronavirus.
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Ricardo Castaneda, Psychiatrist With Many Talents, Dies at 64
Those We’ve Lost: He was a writer and caricaturist who planned to treat his patients even after he was admitted to the hospital, where he died of the novel coronavirus.
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Stuart Cohen, a Cabdriver Thirsty for Knowledge, Dies at 73
Collecting used books, he read voraciously when not having lively conversations with his passengers. He died in the coronavirus pandemic.
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A Latino Worker, a Risky Construction Site and a Family in Mourning
Construction workers, many of them undocumented, continue to die on the job in New York City, despite safety regulations.
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Fried Fish. Rave Reviews. Then Someone Messed With the Gas Lines.
With its stoves and ovens disabled, Millie Peartree Fish Fry & Soul Food in the Bronx was forced to close.
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Wanted: A Home for Three Million Records
The Archive of Contemporary Music is losing its space in TriBeCa.
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(Some of) the Many Ways Times Journalists Take Notes
Type, scribble, sketch, stash in your memory over ice cream with a source: Different circumstances, and different stories, call for very different methods.
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Why Is New York City’s Skyline Always Lit Up?
The lights are dazzling. But there are several other practical reasons that they stay on all night long.
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Alec Baldwin Gripes About Tour Boat ‘Scam,’ and N.Y.C. Cracks Down
Mr. Baldwin complained that he had been victimized by a company that offered tickets to see the Statue of Liberty.
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Feeling the Weight of a Changing Brooklyn Tradition
A reporter for The Times attended a century-old Italian religious celebration and ended up participating in the festivities.
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The 1977 Blackout in New York City Happened Exactly 42 Years Ago
On the anniversary of the enormous blackout, another one sent parts of Manhattan into darkness.
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A 72-Foot Spire and a 116-Year-Old Tradition in Need of a Few Brooklyn Hipsters
For the first time, a Catholic festival in Williamsburg sought new volunteers outside their church to help in the annual lifting of an iconic pillar.
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‘Gay,’ ‘Femme,’ ‘Nonbinary’: How Identity Shaped the Lives of These 10 New Yorkers
A Portrait Series.
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The Half King Is Dead. Long Live the Half King.
The Half King, a bar favored by war correspondents and conflict photographers, endured all kinds of disasters in its 19 years. Then came the tourists.
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Not ‘My Grandfather’s Boy Scout Troop’: It’s Now for Girls, Too
As of Feb. 1, the Boy Scouts of America began accepting girls into all its ranks for the first time in its 109-year history.
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Stonewall Riot Apology: Police Actions Were ‘Wrong,’ Commissioner Admits
The commissioner, James O’Neill, said he was sorry on behalf of the New York Police Department for officers’ actions during a seminal 1969 clash outside a gay bar.
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New Yorkers Say They Want to Save the Environment (but They Also Love Their Plastic Bags)
The plan was included in the state’s $175 billion budget that was announced early Sunday.
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Here’s What Happens When 2 Sons Buy a Billboard Asking for Birthday Wishes for Their Dad
Don’t try calling. Chris Ferry is getting a new phone line for his 62nd birthday.
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A Glittering Goodbye to Hector Xtravaganza
New Yorkers gathered to memorialize the life of the ballroom scene “grandfather” and L.G.B.T. icon.
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The House of Artisanal Pain
At Behind the Circle in Bushwick, traditional Japanese-style hand-tattooing.
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Hours on the Phone, in Pursuit of a Lifesaving Drug
The Times recounts calling hundreds of city pharmacies that are supposed to provide naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses.
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NYC’s Human-Service Providers Press for Changes in City Funding
There are 200,000 people in New York who work in the human services industry in the city, dealing with everything from elder care to youth employment and from domestic violence to housing needs.
City Limits
What’s Behind the Long Lines and Angry Voices at Many City Post Offices
Across the borough, the post offices with the worst reputations appear to be located in Bushwick, Williamsburg and Flatbush, according to published reports.
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