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    Messy Snowstorm Hits the East Coast

    At a critical moment in the pandemic, a major storm brought heavy snow, freezing rain and fierce winds from the Mid-Atlantic to New England.

  4. New York Today

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    What New Yorkers Need to Know About the Snowstorm

    The National Weather Service suggested that snow accumulations in New York City could end up on the low end of the initial forecasts of eight to 12 inches.

  1. New York Today

    The Biggest Snowstorm in Years Blanketed New York

    Some pockets of New York City saw nearly a foot of snow. Upstate, some towns saw more than three feet of snowfall.

    By Juliana Kim

  2. Holiday Lights Go Big This Year

    In this upended holiday season, Americans are decorating their rooflines and yards with gusto as a way to demand some cheer from a gloomy year.

    By Ronda Kaysen

  3. How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month

    When a single case of smallpox arrived in Manhattan in 1947, a severe outbreak was possible. A decisive civil servant made a bold decision.

    By John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro

  4. Sheltering

    Tips for Hanging Outdoor Holiday Lights

    Make a plan and be safe.

    By Ronda Kaysen

  5. From Mod-Chic Chairs to Virus Barriers

    What Plexi-Craft — an upscale furniture factory in the Bronx — has, the city wants: Acrylic resin skills.

    By Hillary Chura

  6. How a Sous Chef Turned Fried Chicken Master Spends His Sundays

    Eric Huang preps and delivers about 50 meals a day from his uncle’s shuttered restaurant in Queens.

    By Sasha von Oldershausen

  7. 5 Takeaways From the First Week of Vaccines in New York

    The mass vaccination program is off to an encouraging, if slow, start.

    By Joseph Goldstein

  8. BIG CITY

    Should Ivy League Schools Randomly Select Students (At Least for a Little While)?

    College admissions have favored the well-off for ages, and the pandemic has only made things worse. Now is now the time to change the process.

    By Ginia Bellafante

  9. Inside One N.Y.C. School That Reopened During the Pandemic

    By Juliane Dressner and Alexandra Garcia

  10. TimesVideo

    Reopening a New York City School: ‘It’s Been a Tough Start’

    This fall New York City’s public schools faced perhaps their biggest challenge in memory: Could they resume in person safely? And for how long? We filmed in one school for 33 days to chronicle every step of the reopening.

    By Juliane Dressner, Alexandra Garcia, Ben Laffin and Caroline Kim