
John Leland
Metro Reporter at The New York Times
Reporter in the Metro section of the New York Times. Author of Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year among the Oldest Old.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | John Leland
He ran a successful political campaign, sometimes from a psych ward, sometimes living on the street. He has found a way to thrive. In a psychiatric ward in Upper Manhattan, Arvind Sooknanan made a plan for his life. He would drop out of high school, take the G.E.D. test and go on to college, be the first in his family to get a degree.
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2 months ago |
spokesman.com | Alyce McFadden |John Leland
A small twin-engine plane crashed in a muddy field Saturday near the town of Copake, New York, killing all six people on board — two surgeons, two of their children and the children’s partners, according to a family member of the victims. The plane, a Mitsubishi MU-2B bound for Columbia County Airport near Hudson, New York, was carrying the three couples en route to a 25th birthday celebration and Passover Seder, according to a statement from a family member.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
nytimes.com | John Leland
Fury at Elon Musk emerges as vandalism, protest and buyer's remorse. On the Lower East Side of Manhattan this month, two men spray-painted a red swastika on a parked Tesla Cybertruck. In the borough's meatpacking district, six people sat on the floor of a Tesla showroom and refused to leave, chanting "Elon Musk is unelected, democracy must be protected" before being arrested. In Albany, lawmakers called for New York State's pension fund to unload its 3.5 million shares of Tesla stock.
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Mar 23, 2025 |
nytimes.com | John Leland
Matthew Mahrer as a boy wrote a 25-page book about his grandfather's experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi internment camp. Christopher Brown did favors for the Orthodox rabbi across the street, who needed someone to turn on electrical devices during the Sabbath or Jewish holidays. In November 2022, they were both in free fall. Christopher Brown, then 21, posted on Twitter that he wanted to "shoot up a synagogue and die."Matthew Mahrer helped him get the gun.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
nytimes.com | John Leland
The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island's north shore, re-elected its mayor on Tuesday. For the normally placid small town, the election capped eight turbulent days and seemingly ended a quixotic write-in campaign by a brash snack-food mogul. But elections these days don't always end when they're over.
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