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It’s Monday. New York City is entering Phase 2 of reopening, which allows thousands of offices to welcome back employees for the first time since March.
Weather: Mostly sunny and hot, reaching into the high 80s, then turning cloudy tonight.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through Sunday.
You’d be forgiven for forgetting, but New York’s primary elections are on Tuesday.
The pandemic and the recent weeks of protests have all but overshadowed the contests, which include competitive congressional and state legislative primaries, and some special elections.
But dozen of races — between incumbents and challengers, and establishment candidates and left-wing insurgents — will finally come to a head. In many of the primary races, the victors are all but assured to win in the general election in November.
Here are some of the races we’re watching:
Bronx/Westchester County: Representative Eliot L. Engel, a 31-year incumbent, is being challenged by Jamaal Bowman, a middle school teacher.
The race has attracted national attention: Mr. Bowman was endorsed by Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Mr. Engel has been endorsed by most of the Democratic establishment, including Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Bronx: Representative Jose E. Serrano, the longest-tenured Hispanic congressman, is retiring. Twelve Democrats are running to replace him, including:
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Councilman Rubén Díaz Sr., a socially conservative Pentecostal minister;
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Councilman Ritchie J. Torres, who became the first openly gay elected official in the Bronx;
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Assemblyman Michael Blake, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee;
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Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who ran unsuccessfully for public advocate last year; and
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Melissa Mark-Viverito, the former City Council speaker.
Buffalo/Rochester: A special election will fill the House seat formerly held by Chris Collins, a Republican who resigned in the fall before pleading guilty to federal insider trading charges.
Jay Jacobs, a Republican, is running against Nate McMurray, a Democrat, and Duane Whitmer, a libertarian, to serve out the remainder of Mr. Collins’s term. Regardless of the outcome, both Mr. Jacobs and Mr. McMurray have vowed to run until November, when another election will determine who will serve a full two years in the House.
Rockland/Westchester: The race to replace Representative Nita Lowey, a Democrat who is retiring after more than three decades, is a seven-way free-for-all.
The candidates include: Adam Schleifer, a former federal prosecutor and a son of a billionaire, who has spent more than $4 million on the race; Mondaire Jones, a former lawyer and progressive upstart; Evelyn Farkas, a former member of the Obama administration; and David Carlucci, a state senator.
Brooklyn: Representative Yvette Clarke, a Democrat, narrowly fended off a challenge in 2018 from a first-time candidate, Adem Bunkeddeko.
He is again running for that seat, along with Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who has avoided the public spotlight and opportunities to meet voters throughout most of the district; and Alex Hubbard and Isiah James, rivals whose campaign offices are in the same building.
[‘This is a change election’: Will two entrenched House members fall?]
Queens: Five candidates are running for borough president in a special election: Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Donovan Richards; Elizabeth Crowley, a former councilwoman; Anthony Miranda, a retired police sergeant; and Dao Yin, an activist and former businessman.
From The Times
After Video Shows Apparent Chokehold, N.Y.P.D. Suspends Officer
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N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing. It’s Off to a Slow Start.
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History
Want more news? Check out our full coverage.
The Mini Crossword: Here is today’s puzzle.
What we’re reading
A group of Long Island residents is calling for the removal of a Robert Moses statue. [Gothamist]
Eight people were shot, one fatally, in the city across nine hours starting on Saturday night, the police said. [New York Post]
Everything you wondered about the 111 Cuomo briefings. [Intelligencer]
And finally: As people stay home, a puzzle maker fits right in
John D. Tulenko writes:
The change was as sudden as it was baffling. For some reason, Par Puzzles, an 88-year-old boutique operation on Long Island that sells handcrafted jigsaw puzzles for as much as $4,500, was doing big business.
The company’s owners — John Madden, a retired wallpaper hanger, and his 38-year-old son, Justin — quickly realized that the coronavirus pandemic had given them a rare opportunity.
It was a quirk of the lockdown that, after years of mild interest, the public was hungry for puzzles. And with inventory on Amazon low and big puzzle makers forced to halt their operations, determined shoppers found Par and put in their orders.
It was a lot of work for such a small business. “Off the charts,” John Madden said.
Justin Madden, who splits the handiwork with his father, described a chaotic April and May.
“Hustling, day and night, seven days a week,” he said. “It meant hands and fingers that were literally worn down to the nub.”
The Maddens make jigsaw puzzles the old-fashioned way: by cutting pieces from slabs of wood “free-form,” without drawing any shapes in advance. An 800-piece puzzle can take four days to make using one of the 1930s-era scroll saws in the Maddens’ workshop.
[Learn more about the history of the company, which was founded in 1932.]
“Our creations are a one of a kind,” Justin Madden said. “I can never cut, and he can never cut, the same puzzle twice.”
Par’s orders tripled this spring to 35, a result of these extraordinary times.
“We had a chance to show people what Par Puzzles are like,” Justin Madden said. “If I could do this full time, forever, I would love to do that.”
It’s Monday — summer is officially here.
Metropolitan Diary: Friends forever
Dear Diary:
We were besties at an upstate New York summer camp, two inseparable girls who lived five hours away from each other the rest of the year. For teenagers who didn’t drive, it might as well have been opposite sides of the country.
The camp would frequently bring us into Manhattan for field trips, setting us loose on our own in the belief that we would be safe and would return to the bus on time. My friend and I always made a bee line for Washington Square Park.
As our last summer at camp came to an end, we promised that if we didn’t see each other during our college years, we would meet five years to the day of our last trip to Washington Square Park. We picked a specific time and vowed to wait a couple of hours in case either of us was running late.
We stayed in touch for a time through letters and phone calls, but those eventually faded. Still, we were both the type to keep our promises.
I was an art history major, and I arranged for some research to bring me into the city on the date of our planned reunion. I went to the park. She didn’t show up. I was sad, but I understood. People move on.
I still visit New York on occasion, though rarely in August. Whenever I do, I take a trip to Washington Square Park.
“I never forgot you,” I say in my mind to my friend when I am there. “I hope life has been treating you well.”
— Deborah Malick
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