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The Week in Pictures for Jan. 18

Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a chess club in Harlem, the city’s school bus drivers’ strike, and the continuing struggle of businesses in Red Hook.

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 Bill Keller, David W. Chen, Eleanor Randolph and Clyde Haberman. Also appearing, he New York State comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, and Ayana Mathis. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

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