The Times assigned reporters to observe seven public school districts and the different ways they’re reaching students.
For this newspaper, the extraordinary events of the past few months have demanded headlines that take up space.
Instead of its traditional list of destinations, the Travel desk asked readers about locales with special meaning to them.
The influenza outbreak killed more than 20,000 New Yorkers and 675,000 Americans. It might have dominated the news, if not for World War I.
In March, a Metro desk editor began logging daily plans and ideas for covering the pandemic in New York. Looking back through those early notes now brings a mix of pride and pain.
These are the stories about birds, bugs, fish and mammals that surprised and delighted readers the most this year.
The Year in Pictures project is an annual celebration of photojournalism. In 2020, photographers were living what they captured.
What kind of spending have you prioritized and what’s no longer important? The New York Times would like to hear from you.
How our day at the food pantry hit close to home. Plus, your questions about vaccine distribution, answered.
Few places have been hit by the coronavirus the way a stretch of Queens was last spring. A group of Times journalists built something to help us remember that.