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This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Scarsdale, N.Y., and a six-bedroom in Leonia, N.J.Laurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandLaurel and GrandWestchester | 11 Brookline Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.1932 Colonial-Style House$2.088 millionA five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 2,950-square-foot home from 1932 with hardwood floors and arched doorways; a living room with a wood-burning fireplace and outdoor access, a formal dining room with a large bay window and wainscoting; an eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, an induction cooktop and an island; a family room; an en suite primary bedroom with marble tile, double sinks and an oversized shower; a mudroom, a back staircase; a wine cellar; a covered porch, a patio, and an attached two-car garage, on 0.25 acres. Anne Moretti, William Pitt Julia B Fee Sotheby’s International Realty, 914-815-0057; williampitt.comCostsTaxes: $35,295 a yearProsThe kitchen and bathrooms have been updated. Original brass door hardware adds charming detail.ConsThe kitchen is modest in size and the walk-out basement is unfinished.Jump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualJump VisualBERGEN | 117 LEONIA AVENUE, LEONIA, N.J.Six-Bedroom Dutch Colonial$1.199 millionA six-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, three-story Dutch Colonial built in 1905, with formal dining and living rooms, a wood-burning fireplace, an eat-in kitchen with a butler’s pantry, an office, updated bathrooms, a finished basement with a rec room, basement laundry, a covered front porch, a rear screened porch and a patio, on 0.21 acres. Kim Laakso-Bahr, Sotheby’s International, 201-725-3287, sothebysrealty.comCostsTaxes: $17,087 a yearProsThe house is painted in vibrant colors and has many original features, including a split-front Dutch door, a curved staircase, pine floors, decorative molding, built-in-cabinetry and window seats. It is less than two miles from the George Washington Bridge.ConsThe four bedrooms on the second floor, including the primary bedroom, share one bathroom. There is a wide driveway, but no garage.Given the fast pace of the current market, some properties may no longer be available at the time of publication.For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here. More

This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, on the Upper East Side and in Downtown Brooklyn.Fox ResidentialFox ResidentialFox ResidentialFox ResidentialFox ResidentialFox ResidentialManhattan | 530 East 76th Street, No. 14CUpper East Side Condo$1.25 millionA one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 953-square-foot apartment with a windowed galley kitchen, an open living and dining room, a primary bedroom with a marble en suite bathroom, a den or home office and ample closets, on the 14th floor of a 39-story doorman building from 1987 with a resident manager, a live-in super, a concierge, a gym, a pool, a children’s playroom, a residents’ lounge, a conference room, shared laundry, a public parking garage, storage lockers, a bike room and a roof deck. Karen Gorstayn and Margo Mohr, Fox Residential, 212-639-9739; foxresidential.comCostsCommon charges: $1,909 a monthTaxes: $1,314 a monthOngoing assessment: $353.46 a month for capital improvementsProsThis pretty apartment has expansive river views. Use of the building’s pool and gym are included in the common charges.ConsThe peach color in the bedrooms may not suit all tastes. There are waiting lists for the bike room and basement storage lockers.Arnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyArnaud Montagard for Sotheby’s International RealtyManhattan | 25 Minetta Lane, No. 3JGreenwich Village Co-op$850,000A roughly 550-square-foot studio apartment with a kitchen that has a breakfast bar, a step-up breakfast nook, a decorative fireplace, and a windowed bathroom with a walk-in shower, on the third floor of a six-story prewar co-op building with a live-in super, a virtual intercom, a waiting list for basement storage cages, a bike room, shared laundry and a roof deck. Karin Dauch, Sotheby’s International Realty-East Side Manhattan Brokerage, 917-309-5684; sothebysrealty.comCostsMaintenance: $1,240 a monthProsVintage designer furniture can be included in the sale. Subletting is permitted.ConsIn-unit washer/dryers are allowed only if two or more units are combined. Without an available cage in the basement, storage is lackingColin MillerColin MillerColin MillerColin MillerColin MillerColin MillerBrooklyn | 9 Dekalb Avenue, No. 70FDowntown Brooklyn Condo$1.655 millionA one-bedroom, one-bath, 823-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a marble and granite en suite bathroom with a walk-in shower, 11-foot windows, a washer/dryer and zoned air-conditioning, on the 70th floor of Brooklyn Tower, a new 93-story doorman building with a live-in resident manager, a bike room, basement storage cages and more than 120,000 square feet of amenities including a gym, swimming pool, a roof deck, a resident’s lounge, a basketball court a dog run and a playground. Skyler Rhoten, Douglas Elliman, 347-474-1916; thebrooklyntower.comCostsCommon charges: $529 a monthTaxes: $1,201 a monthProsThe views from the large windows in this high-floor apartment are spectacular.ConsThe kitchen lacks counter space. The windows are not wired for electric shades. The fees for amenities and storage cages in this new tower are not yet finalized.Given the fast pace of the current market, some properties may no longer be available at the time of publication.For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here. More

Dan Schoenholz’s initial idea for his theme was different.Jump to: Today’s Theme | Tricky CluesTHURSDAY PUZZLE — This is the 29th crossword Dan Schoenholz has published in The New York Times. He is currently two days short of “batting for the cycle,” or having at least one puzzle published for each day of the week.I don’t know whether that’s a milestone that Mr. Schoenholz wants to achieve, but he’s just missing puzzles for Friday and Saturday. Maybe his next one will be a themeless toughie.Today’s ThemeWhen solvers *encounter (NEGATIVE) a theme like the one in Mr. Schoenholz’s puzzle, they are often required to *deconstruct (DRUM UP) the clues in order to crack the entries.Not sure what I’m talking about? Do you now suspect that I have finally gone completely off the rails? That’s entirely possible. But what if I told you that solving this puzzle boiled down to nothing more than reading the clues slightly differently from how they are written?The hint I gave in the first sentence of this theme explanation may have spilled the beans, but if you missed it, here’s the David Attenborough version:Here we see a lone Thursday theme clue, perched high atop the clue list, in search of a solver. Its elegant markings — the designation 17A and an asterisk — suggest to all who may encounter it that it is ready to be written in.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

A U.S. official urged judges not to call for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territory, arguing that Israel faced “very real security needs” and that a Palestinian state must be established for a lasting peace.The United States on Wednesday defended Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, arguing at the U.N.’s highest court that Israel faced “very real security needs.”The defense came a day after the United States issued its third veto against a call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza at the United Nations Security Council, a vote that drew an angry response from nations and aid groups that have urged a stop to the fighting to help Gaza’s civilians.The latest show of American support for Israel was at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where Richard C. Visek, the acting legal adviser at the U.S. State Department, urged a 15-judge panel not to call for Israel’s immediate withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territory.The United States urged the International Court of Justice not to call for immediate withdrawal of Israel from Palestinian territories, and to consider the country’s security needs.Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersHe said that only the establishment of an independent Palestinian state “living safely and securely alongside” Israel could bring about lasting peace, repeating a longstanding U.S. position, but the prospect of which appears even more elusive amid the war in Gaza.“This conflict cannot be resolved through violence or unilateral actions,” Mr. Visek said. “Negotiations are the path to a lasting peace.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

The 7-year-old was on vacation with her family from Indiana when she and her brother became trapped in the sand at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, the authorities said.The girl was playing with her brother when the hole they were digging collapsed, trapping the two in the sand.Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel, via Associated PressA 7-year-old girl died on Tuesday after the hole she was digging with her brother at a Florida beach collapsed, burying the pair in sand, the authorities said — one of a few instances in which such an episode turns deadly each year in the United States.The girl, Sloan Mattingly, was on vacation with her family from Indiana in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, a coastal town about 30 miles north of Miami, and was playing in the sand with her 9-year-old brother, Maddox, when they became stuck on Tuesday afternoon, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.In a 911 call released by the Sheriff’s Office, beachgoers can be heard screaming as a breathless woman, who describes herself as a registered nurse, tells the operator that “there’s a little girl buried in the sand.” The girl’s father had yelled for help, and people were trying to dig her out, the woman says. She says she could not see any part of the girl’s body. “Mom’s yelling, ‘My daughter’s in there,’” she says.Footage appeared to show other beachgoers crowded around the sand hole, trying to dig out the girl before rescuers arrived. Other 911 callers sounded distressed as they described the frantic scene.Sandra King, a spokeswoman for Pompano Beach Fire Rescue, said that rescuers had been called to the beach at around 3:15 p.m. and had found several adults frantically trying to dig the two children from the hole, which was about four to five feet deep by four to five feet wide. The boy was buried up to his chest, and the girl was underneath the sand completely, she said. Rescuers secured the edges of the hole to prevent it from collapsing further and managed to extract them both.Rescuers tried to resuscitate the girl, who had no pulse, as they took her to a hospital, where, the sheriff’s office said, she was later pronounced dead. The boy was uninjured, Ms. King said. “The scene was very, very traumatic, and the parents were absolutely hysterical, understandably,” she said. “They’re there to enjoy a day at the beach and this horrible tragedy occurs.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

Newly released documents recorded at least 24 biting episodes before Commander, the president’s German shepherd, was banished from the White House last fall.The Secret Service had to “adjust our operational tactics” to protect President Biden because the first family’s dog kept biting agents, including one who required six stitches and another whose blood spilled onto the floor of the White House, according to newly released internal emails posted online.The agency recorded at least 24 biting episodes between October 2022 and July 2023 involving Commander, a German shepherd who became the terror of the West Wing, Camp David and the president’s homes in Delaware, about half of which required medical attention, according to the documents. Commander was banished from the White House last fall to an undisclosed location.“The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present — please give lots of room (staying a terrain feature away if possible),” an assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protection Division wrote to the team. “We will continue to keep” a protected person whose code name was blacked out in the document but was clearly Mr. Biden “in our sight but must be creative to ensure our own personal safety.” The agent reported that they were seeking “a better solution soon.”The documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by John Greenewald, a longtime California-based researcher who specializes in unearthing government secrets on everything from U.F.O.s to C.I.A. and military activities, and posted on his website, called The Black Vault. The Secret Service confirmed the documents were authentic.The 273 pages of emails and documents, with names redacted, shed new light on a period that generated great stress inside the White House before Commander, then age 2, was removed from the mansion. A previous presidential dog, Major, was moved out of the White House two years earlier for similar reasons.The cache of emails not only documented various episodes in sometimes graphic detail, but also captured the trauma and concern among Secret Service agents and officers, who shared techniques for the best ways to avoid getting hurt. Secret Service personnel were bitten on the wrist, forearm, elbow, waist, chest, thigh and shoulder. One was saved from injury by his ammunition pouch. Among the documents was a photo of a torn shirt.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

The action under consideration could prevent people from making asylum claims during border crossing surges. The White House says it is far from a decision on the matter.President Biden is considering executive action that could prevent people who cross illegally into the United States from claiming asylum, several people with knowledge of the proposal said Wednesday. The move would suspend longtime guarantees that give anyone who steps onto U.S. soil the right to ask for safe haven.The order would put into effect a key policy in a bipartisan bill that Republicans thwarted earlier this month, even though it had some of the most significant border security restrictions Congress has contemplated in years.The bill would have essentially shut down the border to new entrants if more than an average of 5,000 migrants per day tried to cross unlawfully in the course of a week, or more than 8,500 tried to cross in a given day.The action under consideration by the White House would have a similar trigger for blocking asylum to new entrants, the people with knowledge of the proposal say. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.The move, if enacted, would echo a 2018 effort by President Donald J. Trump to block migration, which was assailed by Democrats and blocked by federal courts.Although such an action would undoubtedly face legal challenges, the fact that Mr. Biden is considering it shows just how far he has shifted on immigration since he came into office, promising a more humane system after the Trump years.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida told supporters in a call on Wednesday that he would not want to be Donald J. Trump’s vice president, suggested it would be a “mistake” for Mr. Trump to consider “identity politics” in making his selection for a running mate and left wide open the door to a 2028 presidential run.“I haven’t ruled anything out,” Mr. DeSantis said of a 2028 presidential run, as he outlined plans to stay involved in politics beyond Florida.In a more than 30-minute call held to thank backers who had volunteered to serve as his presidential delegates, the governor was unusually candid in assessing his failed 2024 campaign a month after he dropped out of the race. He also sounded off on conservative news media outlets that he said had backed the former president over him.He also spoke about “all the baggage Trump has” as a concern for Republicans headed into the fall, but said that President Biden was “going to be the gift that keeps on giving.”And he expressed no regrets about his run for the party’s presidential nomination, though he was frustrated that “the race ended up being an incumbent race.”“The dynamics of the race were, he kept getting indicted, and he drew more support out of sympathy for that,” Mr. DeSantis said of Mr. Trump at one point.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More