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• New York Today: Your Local Glacier

  

  Photo A dangerous climb to the top of Slush Mountain. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Updated 9:18 a.m. Good morning on this puddle-filled Tuesday.In New York, come rain, shine, sleet or snow, we walk.Except when we can’t.The weekend snowstorm dropped 105 billion pounds of snow on the city.By now, snow plows have cleared most streets (with some notable exceptions), and shovelers have taken care of their stoops and sidewalks (or risked the long arm of the law..

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• New York City's Pension System in Danger of 'Operational Failure ...

  

  Photo When Scott M. Stringer, the New York City comptroller, took office in early 2014, he said it was apparent then that aspects of the retirement system were “hanging by a thread.” Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times New York City’s pension system, which encompasses $160 billion in retirement funds, is rife with problems that leave it vulnerable to an “operational failure,” according to an independent report commissioned by the city comptroller’s office. The r..

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• Panel Calls for Depression Screenings During and After Pregnancy

  

  Photo Melissa Mead and her sons Brady, center, and Emmett, left, in The Dalles, Ore. Ms. Mead was not screened for depression before or after she gave birth to Brady and said she experienced postpartum depression, anxiety and O.C.D. Credit Leah Nash for The New York Times Women should be screened for depression during pregnancy and after giving birth, an influential government-appointed health panel said Tuesday, the first time it has recommended screening for materna..

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• Airbnb removes New York igloo charging $200 a night

  

  New York City is an expensive place to stay — even its igloos charge $200 a night. Patrick Horton, an enterprising advertising art director who lives in Brooklyn, took advantage of the heavy snowfall last weekend to build a snow structure, before listing it on Airbnb. Horton advertised his creation as a "Boutique Winter Igloo for 2," calling it the "snowpocalypse of 2016's most desirable getaway." The small snow house was "hand-crafted, and built using only natural elements." Namely, frozen wat..

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• How to Build Affordable Housing in New York City

  

  Photo Arverne View, the former Ocean Village in the Rockaways. L&M, a developer of subsidized housing, poured $60 million into a renovation. Credit L&M Development Partners Hurricane Sandy was the last straw for many residents of Ocean Village, a housing project in the Rockaways. Heralded as state of the art when it opened in 1972, this beachside campus of high-rises and four-story townhouses had, over the years, taken a nose dive, the victim of bad management, crime ..

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• Serena Williams Rolls Past Maria Sharapova at Australian Open

  

  Continue reading the main story Video Serena Williams Tops Sharapova 18th Time Serena Williams, the No. 1 player in women’s tennis, logged her 18th win against No. 5 Maria Sharapova on Tuesday in straight sets: 6-4, 6-1. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date January 26, 2016. Photo by Vincent Thian/Associated Press. ..

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• Midday Report: Wall St. Rises on Energy Companies

  

  United States markets were climbing on Tuesday as higher oil prices and some positive earnings news helped to bolster indexes. Consumer stocks got a lift from strong fourth-quarter results from companies like Procter & Gamble and the handbag maker Coach. Bank stocks also rose. KEEPING SCORE Near midday, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.7 percent and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index gained 1.3 percent. The Nasdaq composite index rose 1 percent.ENERGY RISES Energy stocks made early g..

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• New York Weddings Blanketed in White

  

  Photo “It was more intimate than expected, and it made it even more special,” said Stephanie Schneider of her wedding to Matthew Schwartz during the storm on Saturday. Credit Sasithon Pooviriyakul When Stephanie Schneider of Brooklyn began planning her wedding eight months ago, she knew that a January event presented the risk of inclement weather. But it never occurred to her that she’d be married in the middle of a blizzard — what Mayor Bill de Blasio called “one of ..

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• From Bhutan to New York's Dairy Heartland

  

  WARSAW, N.Y. — Purna Gurung and Hem Gurung stood in dung-slopped boots and rubber gloves, the heady perfume of wet cow, raw milk and manure permeating the room. They washed down the dirty stalls in the rotary milking parlor at Noblehurst Farms in western New York, some 7,500 miles from their birthplace in Bhutan. “Everything here looks good to me,” Purna Gurung, 52, said in Nepali, through an interpreter. “It’s hard work here, but I am more happy than being in the refugee camp. Now I have ever..

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• Your Tuesday Briefing: Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Novak ...

  

  Photo A Hillary Clinton campaign event in Iowa on Monday. The candidate has opened up about her faith. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• Grand jury clears Planned Parenthood.A Houston grand jury investigating accusations that Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue for profit has cleared the group of wrongdoing.Instead, jurors indicted two opponents of abortion who m..

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After East Coast Blizzard, the Cleanup and the Workweek Begin .	Battered by East Coast Snowstorm, Cities Face Digging Out .
Heavy Snows Bring East Coast to Near-Standstill .	Blizzard Forecast Prompts Warnings From East Coast Officials .