Many Haitians in the region see the disaster as an opening to talk about the direction of their community.

Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Harold E. Ford Jr. are wooing and pressuring titans of finance to pick sides.

At Little Branch, Cervantes Medina adds an egg to a Bermuda Sour. After the Department of Health cited Manhattan’s Pegu Club for serving a cocktail that contained raw egg, some mixologists are thinking twice before cracking a shell.

Maura Keaney’s appointment to an Education Department job is a bracing moment, even for people who have already seen the mayor stashing his former campaign workers on the city payroll.

A federal investigation found that contradictory information fed to a computer system helped lead to a crash last February that killed 50 people.

Gov. David A. Paterson said the measure was insufficient to clean up “Planet Albany.” Chances of an override by the Legislature seemed uncertain.

The Rev. Floyd H. Flake met with Gov. David A. Paterson after his group received a casino contract. Mr. Flake said there was no quid pro quo.

The ACE Theatrical Group has agreed to restore the once-majestic Loew’s Kings Theater in Brooklyn, which opened in 1929.

The police said Daniel Ignacio confessed to arson at the Bensonhurt building where he had lived for seven months.

Though it is still performed, debarking, a procedure to quiet noisy dogs, is falling out of favor with younger veterinarians and proponents of animal rights.