Mr. Traum was a guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped carry the spirit of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene to Woodstock, N.Y.

A substantial increase in fares and tolls is planned to help close a widening budget gap of nearly $900 million.

A group of visitors traveled from Japan to Brooklyn to pay homage to Townsend Harris, who helped spell the end of more than two centuries of their country’s self-imposed isolation.

Serbia’s foreign minister says it will not extradite a Serbian student wanted in New York on assault charges because it is against Serbian law to extradite its citizens.

An autopsy performed on the body of the man who died during the New York City Triathlon on Sunday was inconclusive, city officials said on Monday.

A 24 percent spike in delays systemwide was among the raft of dismal numbers in a report to the M.T.A.’s board.

Jellyfish have been even more of an annoyance than usual in the region this summer, arriving early and perplexing fishermen and beachgoers.

The workers had not received time and a half for the overtime they had worked while renovating a dozen apartment buildings, the state attorney general said.

A substantial increase in transit fares and bridge and tunnel tolls is planned to help close a widening budget gap of nearly $900 million.

A 24 percent spike in the number of delays systemwide was among the raft of dismal performance numbers included in a report to the board of the M.T.A.