Carlos Angamarca said he and a friend were attacked in Patchogue by a group of teenagers.

Bolstered in part by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s spending, the average New York City employee cost the city $107,000 a year in the 2008 fiscal year.

Boxes being brought to the offices that Dean G. Skelos occupied as Senate majority leader. The new majority leader, Malcolm A. Smith, will be moving in.

Caroline Kennedy and several others submitted vetting forms to the governor, who insisted he had not made up his mind and that the race was still wide open.

New York police officials are looking at the feasibility of disrupting service after revelations that the Mumbai gunmen received transmissions during their November attack.

A proposed “green MetroCard” program would let riders make donations to help pay for making transit operations more environmentally sustainable.

Father Neuhaus, right, at a 1997 Congressional hearing on religious persecution. To his right were Trent Lott, the Senate Republican leader, center, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Christopher J. Christie won admiration in his seven years as a prosecutor in New Jersey.

Jan. 8, 2009.

Nat Hentoff at 83. He wrote of jazz and civil liberties in The Village Voice, defending free speech and opposing censorship.

Ruth Taube, 85, has been teaching sewing, and self sufficiency, at the Henry Street Settlement for more than 40 years.

Patrice Mbekeli is trying to make a new home in the United States after fleeing Cameroon, where his wife and children still live.