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The Week in Pictures for May 3

Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a five-alarm fire in the Bronx, a motorcycle club in Queens and the cherry blossoms blooming in Brooklyn.

This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,” an inside look at the most compelling articles in the Sunday newspaper, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times’s Wendell Jamieson, Michael Grynbaum, Patrick Healy and Clyde Haberman. Also, David Rohde, an author.

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