Small businesses outside Manhattan helped fuel the city’s recovery from the pandemic. Their rents have soared, and people of color are bearing the brunt of the increases.
YiJie Ye, who was killed, had worked his way up from collecting cans to bringing New Yorkers food. A man faces a second-degree murder charge in his death.
Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement.