New York Today: A Drone Invasion and other top stories.

• New York Today: A Drone Invasion

  

  Photo Not a bird, not a plane. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Updated, 8:48 a.m.Good morning on this heavenly Thursday.Swarms of them are descending on New York.Not birds. Not U.F.O.s. Not mosquitoes.Drones.Starting Friday on Governors Island, more than 100 drones will zip across the sky, some as fast as 60 miles per hour, at the second annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships.To fly them, nearly 150 pilots — selected from more than 1,000 who tried out a..

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• London Falls Behind New York and Hong Kong in Most Expensive ...

  

  Aug. 4, 2016 8:16 a.m. ET London has been knocked from its perch as the world’s most expensive city to live and work in after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. The U.K. capital is now third behind New York and Hong Kong, according to research on global cities from property broker Savills. SVS 0.81 % The research examines the costs for an employee to live in rented housing and work in an office for a year. London had spent the last 2½ years at the top. But it fel..

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• Jogger Karina Vetrano's death prompts New York police to offer ...

  

  NEW YORK -- A $2,500 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest in the killing of a 30-year-old jogger in New York City, CBS New York reports.Police said Karina Vetrano was found strangled to death and possibly sexually assaulted on Tuesday. Her body was discovered by her father in a grassy area in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens.On Wednesday night, grief-stricken loved ones and neighborhood residents held a vigil for Vetrano. All were shaken and outraged by her murder."Thi..

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• Want to Relax in a New York City Park? Join the Crowd

  

  Of course, the city’s prime recreational areas have long been crowded, especially the beaches that have been a release for generations of apartment dwellers. Look no further than the photographer Weegee’s classic 1940 black-and-white shot of the beach in Coney Island with bathers covering nearly every speck of sand.But at a time when tourism is soaring and the city’s population, 8.5 million, is larger than ever, the sprawling public park system — 2,000 parks, 55 outdoor pools and eight beaches ..

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• DraftKings and FanDuel are now legal again in New York state

  

  Daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel are now legal again in New York state. The websites are at the center of an ongoing tussle on whether or not betting on the fortunes of hand-picked imaginary sports teams constitutes gambling. On Wednesday, New York's governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation saying it's all, officially, a bit of fun: these are "games of skill." This means the sites now come under the jurisdiction of the New York State Gaming Commission, which will introduce regu..

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• Jonah Hill Is No Joke

  

  You can tell a lot about a person by watching him lose. I did not suggest Ping-Pong specifically because I thought Jonah Hill would lose at it, but rather because his initial suggestion for an interview activity — tennis — presented logistical complications: specifically, the problem of trying to talk with someone from 70 feet away across a net on a loud city court. So Hill agreed to Ping-Pong. “Doesn’t Susan Sarandon have a Ping-Pong place in New York?” he mused while forming a plan. “I’ve hea..

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• Tightrope Walk Awaits New York's New Police Commissioner, and ...

  

  The mayor met with them outside of city buildings so as not to arouse suspicion, Mr. Shorris said. A second and final interview for both men took place on Saturday at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence, Eric F. Phillips, the mayor’s press secretary, said. Mr. de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, attended those sessions. Mr. O’Neill was offered the job 16 hours before it was publicly announced on Tuesday.“I don’t think there’s a better-tested guy for this job,” Mr. Shorris said. “I can tell you..

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• The Innovation Campus: Building Better Ideas

  

  Cornell Tech: Creative CollisionsThe first three buildings on Cornell Tech’s 12-acre campus on Roosevelt Island won’t open until next year, but their structure is already becoming visible. A transparent masters studio for collaborative study will be the first thing visitors see as they stroll from the subway or tram along Tech Walk, the central avenue of a project with an estimated completion date of 2043.The studio is in the Bloomberg Center, named to acknowledge a $100 million gift from Bloom..

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• Voices From Donald Trump's Rallies, Uncensored

  

  “Kill her.”“Trump that bitch!”“Build a wall — kill them all.”New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump’s rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing: A sharp sting that quickly dulls from repetition.But what struck us was the frequency with which some Trump supporters use coarse, vitriolic, even violent language — in the epithets they shout and chant, the signs they carry, the T-shirts they w..

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• The Sociopath's Diary

  

  Photo Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” — Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” speaking to Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.You know who I am. I don’t need to tell you. That’s the point. Everyone knows. That schmuck Schwartz, I made him a pile of money, didn’t have a cent before, and he thinks he w..

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