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The Week in Pictures for Dec. 21

Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include the shootings in Newtown, Conn.; the plight of an apartment complex after Hurricane Sandy; and a program that matches nurses with low-income mothers.

This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,” an inside look at the most compelling articles in Sunday's Times, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times's William McDonald, obituary editor, and Seth Kugel, who writes the Frugal Traveler series. Also appearing, Joseph J. Lhota and Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

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