Images and videos of the Manhattan building analyzed by The Times show that the structural columns buckled directly beneath where the recent addition was built.
A series of unlucky factors — two earthquakes in rapid succession, a fault that ruptured toward Caracas, soft ground and the shallow depth of the earthquake — combined to make the Venezuela earthquakes unusually deadly.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to connect the plaza to Prospect Park would expand pedestrian spaces, add bike lanes and reroute cars to improve traffic flow in the area.
Flight data, video of the crash and imagery of the aftermath reveal how an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck, killing two people and injuring dozens.
Times analysis of air traffic recordings and flight data shows that outage-related problems persisted far longer than what the officials have acknowledged.