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The crew of a Boeing 737 arriving from Florida on Friday reported a drone in the airspace as the plane approached Newark Airport. The plane landed safely.The F.A.A. said it received more than 100 reports of drone sightings near airports every month.

Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez is back in New York City and working at City Hall after his release. Immigration officials have appealed his asylum.The detention of Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez caused outrage among elected officials in New York City.

An era comes to an end, as New York City’s last remaining racetrack takes a final lap.Frank Lettieri is one of the dwindling regulars at Aqueduct Racetrack, which will host its final live races this weekend.

The people who know playgrounds best want a pink basketball court, hair-braiding station, and pollinator garden.

Carmella Charrington, elected on Tuesday as a Democratic district leader in Brooklyn, said it was a “mistake” to recirculate a post supporting antisemitic conspiracy theories.Carmella Charrington, an advocate for victims of deed theft, suggested that old tropes of Jewish people controlling business and the media were “the truth.”