Judging by the results of the SuperNationals tournament last weekend, New York has a lot of competition in the chess universe, at least when it comes to scholastic chess.

A laid-off worker’s idea for a weekly gathering in Hoboken, N.J., has become part therapy, part exercise and part networking.

Mr. Stern chronicled war, crime and intrigue, and was a driving force behind efforts to save the aircraft carrier Intrepid and to raise money for medical research.

New York City officials are working hard to prevent the usual undercount of residents, a result that translates into fewer federal dollars coming to the city.

The producers of the modeling reality show restaged an audition that was disrupted last month by a melee, with about 1,200 contestants arriving in Midtown Manhattan.

Several videos were made of arrests being made at the Manhattan university, but they all seem to tell a different story.

Work associated with the new baseball stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets was performed by companies that the city avoids doing business with because of prior allegations of corruption and links to organized crime.

After the police arrested demonstrators in a New School building, protesters rallied in Union Square and called for Bob Kerrey, the school’s embattled president, to resign.

About 200 protesters rallied at 10 p.m. in Union Square against Bob Kerrey’s leadership of the school and marched south toward Mr. Kerrey’s house.

Prices that seem a relic of a bygone era are re-emerging in Manhattan, even in doorman buildings and neighborhoods once considered expensive.