Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a dolphin in the Gowanus Canal, the retirement of a Manhattan mail carrier after 45 years on the job, and the reopening of a historic church in the East Village.
This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,†an inside look at the most compelling articles in Sunday’s Times, Sam Roberts will host a tribute to Ed Koch, with The Times’s Joyce Purnick and Clye Haberman. Also, Diane Coffey, Stanley Brezenoff and Neil Barsky. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.
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