New York Headlines

• Squatters take over NoHo Starbucks

  (by Griffin Kelly for The New York Post 26 minutes ago)
  Customers have complained about the storefront's rank smell and crowded seats.
  
  

• 75-year-old library book returned in NJ

  (by Angela Barbuti for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Bob Jablonski, who grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey checked out “Hitler,” by Oden Rudolph at his high school library in 1947, at age 14.
  
  

• Overnight shootings in NYC leave one dead, 4 injured

  (by Dean Balsamini for The New York Post an hour ago)
  One Bronx man shot his wife and then himself.
  
  
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• First Catholic church in Brooklyn celebrates 200th anniversary

  (by Leonard Greene for The Daily News an hour ago)
  There were no bridges connecting the two shores of the East River. Brooklyn was just a village, still municipally part of Long Island, which had no established Catholic church to call its own.
  
  

• Will Abortion Issue Sway Voters’ Choices? N.Y. House Race Poses Test.

  (by Grace Ashford for The New York Times an hour ago)
  An Aug. 23 special election to replace a Democrat, Antonio Delgado, could help answer one of the biggest questions of the midterms.
  
  

• Takeaways From the Unsealed Warrant for the Search of Trump’s Home

  (by Glenn Thrush for The New York Times an hour ago)
  The Justice Department’s warrant and two critical supporting memos shed considerable light on the investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of official documents.
  
  

• Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned

  (by Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  The lawyer signed a statement in June that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar-a-Lago had been given back. The search at the former president’s home on Monday turned up more.
  
  

• Ten tasty-looking Restaurant Week specials worth trying during its 30th year

  (by Theresa Braine for The Daily News 2 hours ago)
  Restaurant Week’s summer 2022 incarnation is lasting 30 days to commemorate 30 years. With more than 600 restaurants participating in all five boroughs, it’s impossible to try them all. A quick, unscientific scan of the Restaurant Week site yielded this sampling of enticing eateries and mouthwatering morsels.
  
  

• Jose Rodriguez came to America looking for a brighter future. He ended up a casualty in the political battle over immigration between Texas and New York

  (by Josephine Stratman for The Daily News 3 hours ago)
  A 38-year-old from Venezuela with a family of four children he had to leave behind, Jose Rodriguez arrived in New York with the same dream that has driven immigrants for centuries — the hope of a brighter future. But so far he, like many of the others on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s buses, has found himself caught in the middle ...
  
  

• Salman Rushdie is attacked onstage in Western New York.

  (by Jay Root, David Gelles, Elizabeth A. Harris and Julia Jacobs for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  The author was set to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution when an assailant rushed at him.
  
  

• As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence

  (by Alan Feuer for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language.
  
  

• What to Know About New York’s 2nd Round of Primary Elections

  (by Jeffery C. Mays for The New York Times 9 hours ago)
  The state’s redistricting woes have created a rare August primary for New York’s congressional and State Senate seats, raising concerns of low voter turnout.