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An unorthodox table-tennis tournament played against the Bank of America building in Manhattan on Friday was part of a project by the artist Zefrey Throwell.

Even Arthur Miller himself changed his view of his character’s religion and ethnicity over the years.

When elderly New Yorkers with dementia wander away from their homes, the police issue a bulletin called a silver alert.

The former wrestling executive Linda E. McMahon garnered more than half of the delegates who voted during the party’s convention, but her main rival secured a spot on the primary ballot.

Aspiring writers, encouraged by the NY Writers Coalition, put pen to paper during a 75-minute ride on the No. 7 train.

The federal government paid New York State $700 million more in 2009 than the state needed to care for residents with developmental disabilities who lived in its institutions, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Officials in Palisades Park, N.J., have refused to remove a plaque in memory of sexual slavery during World War II, and the episode has irritated South Korea-Japan relations.

An auditor reportedly found several serious violations with the administration of an SAT exam at a Brooklyn school, where the scores of 199 students were invalidated this week.

The district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, is setting up a task force to combat the community pressure faced by the families of child sexual abuse victims who report the crime to law enforcement.

The brother of Mary Richardson Kennedy, who killed herself this week in Westchester County, went to court to challenge her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over control of her body.

The long-closed High Bridge, for which the Highbridge section of the Bronx is named, is to be restored, and some residents hope it will lead to a little more community pride.

Unused snow days will give many students days off at the end of the school year, but they will have to return midweek for the originally scheduled last day of class.

The winning lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for May 18, 2012.

The Drama Book Shop is a Tony Award winner that is perhaps the city’s best source for theatrical works.

Yoga enthusiasts seeking social outlets without smoke, drugs and (sometimes) alcohol are turning to parties that combine live music, raw food and chants.

Ms. D’Arcy was an interior decorator whose eclectic sense of style helped change Americans’ taste in home furnishings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when she worked at Bloomingdale’s.

The investor Howard Marks and his wife bought a 30-room duplex at 740 Park. The seller was Courtney Sale Ross, the widow of the Time Warner executive Steven J. Ross.

The city can start hiring new teachers and administrators to fill positions at 24 schools that will be closed and reopened by September, under a deal reached with the teachers' and principals' unions and announced late Friday. An arbitrator, meanwhile, will work quickly to decide whether the city's shuffling of staff violates the unions' contract. If the city loses the arbitration, its new hiring can be reversed.

Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week. Subjects include the space shuttle Enterprise, falling tree limbs and a subway portrait artist.

Should the New York Public Library go forward with its plan to consolidate two branches into a renovated version of its main building?