New York Headlines

• 5 Excerpts From JD Vance’s Emails to a Transgender Classmate

  (by The New York Times for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  A former Yale Law School classmate shared with The Times about 90 emails and text messages with Mr. Vance. Here are some of the most revealing moments in their correspondence.
  
  

• JD Vance, an Unlikely Friendship and Why It Ended

  (by Stephanie Saul for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  His political views differed from a transgender classmate’s, but they forged a bond that lasted a decade — until Mr. Vance seemed to pivot, politically and personally.
  
  

• 85 year-old man punched in the head in random Hell’s Kitchen attack

  (by Patrick Reilly for The New York Post 7 hours ago)
  The elderly victim was assaulted on a sidewalk at the intersection of West 43rd Street and Ninth Avenue around 4:45 p.m., according to police.
  
  
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• Boy, 15, killed in possible subway surfing tragedy in Queens

  (by Katherine Donlevy for The New York Post 9 hours ago)
  The 15-year-old boy was found just before 5:30 p.m. on the train bed of the Beach 90th Street Station's elevated tracks in Rockaway.
  
  

• Silent No More, Harris Seeks Her Own Voice Without Breaking With Biden

  (by Peter Baker for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  The vice president’s expressions of concern for Palestinian suffering marked a shift in emphasis from the president’s statements as she moved to establish herself as the leader of her party.
  
  

• A Weapons Scanner Arrives in the Subway. Adams Says It Isn’t Optional.

  (by Emma G. Fitzsimmons for The New York Times 12 hours ago)
  Mayor Eric Adams announced that a new scanner would search for guns on the subway. Riders who refuse to be scanned, he said, will not be allowed to enter the system.
  
  

• Top staffers flee NY cannabis regulator after Gov. Kathy Hochul dumps agency’s head

  (by Vaughn Golden, Carl Campanile for The New York Post 12 hours ago)
  Several high-level staffers at New York's cannabis regulator are calling it quits -- after Gov. Kathy Hochul axed the agency's head and blasted it as a “disaster."
  
  

• New York to Replace Student MetroCards With Less Restrictive OMNY Cards

  (by Claire Fahy for The New York Times 13 hours ago)
  New OMNY transit cards for public school students, rolling out in September, will be usable 24 hours a day throughout the calendar year.
  
  

• New York Will Allow Mount Sinai to Close Beth Israel Hospital

  (by Joseph Goldstein for The New York Times 21 hours ago)
  The health facility’s potential closure had been contentious following the shuttering of other hospitals serving Lower Manhattan.