David Waldstein

6 days ago | nytimes.com | David Waldstein

Few experts gave the Knicks a chance to beat the champion Boston Celtics - except for the devoted fans who packed the street outside Madison Square Garden. A woman dragging a roller suitcase across Seventh Avenue in Manhattan stopped in front of a wild sight Wednesday night: hundreds of people, jumping up and down, shouting and cheering in unison. She asked a group of police officers what was going on. "The Knicks," one of the officers said.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | David Waldstein

William J. Fitzpatrick, the district attorney for Onondaga County, had given the players 48 hours to surrender and turn in the gun or face criminal kidnapping charges. He called the episode “hazing on steroids,” and said the students would be charged with unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor. “I cannot adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and lack of judgment involved in this case,” Fitzpatrick said at a news conference Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | David Waldstein

Eleven high school lacrosse players in Syracuse, N.Y., turned themselves in to the authorities on Wednesday in a hazing incident involving younger teammates that the district attorney said included a gun and a knife. William J. Fitzpatrick, the district attorney for Onondaga County, had given the players 48 hours to surrender and turn in the gun or face criminal kidnapping charges.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | David Waldstein

Bally's Corporation will buy Preston High School's buildings and lease them back to the Catholic school, a victory for foes of a plan to close the Bronx institution. Less than a month ago, Preston High School in the Bronx seemed destined for an all-too- familiar fate: another urban Catholic school being forced to close because of financial distress and shrinking enrollment. But to students, staff members and a large network of alumni, the closing did not make sense.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | David Waldstein

The religious order that owns Preston High School says it can no longer operate it. Supporters are appealing to the New York attorney general for help. When Preston High School in the Bronx announced in February that it was closing, it seemed to many that it was just another in a long list of urban Catholic schools that lacked the money and enrollment to survive.