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This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Port Washington, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Belle Mead, N.J.Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyDaniel Gale Sotheby’s International RealtyNassau | 21 Revere Road, Port Washington, N.Y.Split-Level House$949,000A three-bedroom, two-bath house built in 1951 with hardwood floors, a living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a formal dining room with sliders to the landscaped backyard, an eat-in kitchen, a laundry room in a partially finished basement, and an attached one-car garage, on 0.14 acres. Beth Catrone, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, 516-647-1729; danielgale.comCostsTaxes: $12,939 a yearProsThe house was recently painted, and its old windows have been replaced. There is a koi pond in the backyard.ConsThe kitchen and bathrooms need updates. There is no central air-conditioning. The primary bedroom closet is missing a door.SOMERSET | 49 MILLSTONE RIVER ROAD, BELLE MEAD, N.J.Midcentury Modern House$1.695 millionA four-bedroom, four-bath house built in 1964 and expanded to 7,227 square feet in 2002, with an updated kitchen, an open living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a large second-story office area with a kitchen, a greenhouse at the center of the home with an indoor pool and hot tub, an attached three-car garage, and numerous patios, balconies and a roof deck facing out to the 2.35-acre property. Lukasz Kukwa, eXp Realty, 908-680-0902, makingnjhome.comCostsTaxes: $13,375 a yearProsThe greenhouse area has a retractable roof, a patio for sitting among tropical plants, and sliding doors to both the interior and the exterior of the house. Artistic outdoor structures and sculptures dot the grassy sloping yard.ConsThe house is in a flood plain, with a cement wall surrounding the exterior to hold back waters that occasionally encroach.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 Lincoln Square, the financial district and Astoria.Carli Biryla PhotographyCarli Biryla PhotographyCarli Biryla PhotographyCarli Biryla PhotographyCarli Biryla PhotographyCarli Biryla PhotographyManhattan | 315 West 70th Street, No. 4ELincoln Square Co-op$675,000A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 750-square-foot apartment with a galley kitchen, an open living/dining area, a walk-in closet and through-the-wall heating and air-conditioning, on the fourth floor of an 18-story doorman building from 1963 with a live-in resident manager, shared laundry, a private parking garage and a bike room. Michael Biryla and Kyle Ramdeen, 914-299-5377, The Agency New York; theagencyre.comCostsMaintenance: $1,617 a monthProsThe apartment is well-maintained and has good closets. Tucked in the back of the building, it’s quiet and has townhouse views through large windows. The maintenance includes all utilities.ConsThere is no private or shared outdoor space, and there is a long waiting list for parking spots in the garage.Evan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephManhattan | 77 Greenwich Street, No. 20DFinancial District Condo$2.195 millionA two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, 1,371-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a kitchen with a vented range and marble countertops, a primary suite with a walk-in closet, a second bedroom with an en suite bath, radiant-heat marble bathroom floors, 11-foot ceilings, a washer/dryer and central air-conditioning, on the 20th floor of a 42-story pet-friendly doorman building completed in 2021 with a concierge, residents manager, a bike room, two floors of amenities, a double-height gym, a roof deck, a dog run and a children’s playroom. Emily Beare and Shaun Osher, 212-726-0786, Core; corenyc.comCostsCommon charges: $1,579 a monthTaxes: $3,210 a monthProsThere are beautiful city and river views through floor-to-ceiling wraparound windows. The primary bathroom is windowed. The building has eco-friendly features and each unit has its own ventilation, heating and cooling systems.ConsThe taxes are high. Basement storage cages cost $30,000 to $55,000.Tina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupTina Gallo for The Corcoran GroupQueens | 69-04 Ditmars BoulevardAstoria Townhouse$2.495 millionA three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 2,900-square-foot semidetached brick house with a living area that opens to the backyard, a wet bar and a full bath on the first level; a 16-foot porcelain island in the kitchen, a full bath and two terraces on the second level; an en suite primary bedroom with a walk-in closet, two more bedrooms, a full bath and a washer/dryer on the third level; plus mini-split heating and air-conditioning, smart-home systems, an electric car charger, an attached garage, an in-ground pool, an outdoor kitchen and a roof deck. Ivan Mijalkovic and Mario Lituma, 347-653-8010, Corcoran Group; corcoran.comCostsTaxes: $14,700 a yearProsThere are ample entertaining spaces and floor-to-ceiling windows. There’s radiant heat throughout, including in the garage, along with electric window shades and a built-in speaker system. The pool can be heated and cooled.ConsThe stone flooring and other modern finishes may not suit everyone’s tastes. The house is close to the Grand Central Parkway, which could be noisy.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

Shares in Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker fell sharply after the company delivered lackluster quarterly results and declined to give full-year guidance.Growth has slowed at Tesla, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker.Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesTesla plunges Elon Musk and Tesla shareholders are at a crossroads.Hit by a bruising price war, intensifying competition in North America, Europe and China, and Musk’s demands for billions in new Tesla shares, the electric vehicle’s stock has plunged this year, lopping roughly $130 billion off its market capitalization.Shares are down roughly 8 percent on Thursday in premarket trading after Wednesday’s lackluster year-end results.But Musk sees reason for optimism. He asked investors to look beyond 2024, predicting a “major growth wave” fueled by a low-cost Tesla model that will be built partly in Austin, Texas, and Mexico.Wall Street doesn’t appear to be buying the message. The latest stock fall comes after Tesla reported that fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled to $7.9 billion — largely thanks to a one-time tax break. The company also declined to give detailed full-year guidance, but said it expected sales growth to be “notably slower.”“Tesla is signaling that the days of 50 percent or even 30 percent to 40 percent growth year-over-year is not going to happen in 2024,” Seth Goldstein, a Morningstar Research analyst, told Bloomberg. “At a certain point, you can’t cut prices anymore.”Musk doubled down on his call for more shares. He stunned investors this month when he said that if the board didn’t increase his stake, to 25 percent from 13 percent, he would consider developing new artificial intelligence products “outside of Tesla.” That spooked even Tesla bulls who feared that granting Musk so many shares would dilute their holdings. Failing to do so could risk Musk hiving off the A.I. work that had driven investor enthusiasm in the stock.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?  More

Newsroom workers at The Daily News Union, which formed in 2021, are in negotiations for their first contract.Journalists at The New York Daily News walked off the job on Thursday for the first time in more than three decades.Newsroom workers at The Daily News Union, which formed in 2021, are in negotiations for their first contract. The union called a one-day work stoppage to protest staffing cuts, as well as a new policy that requires workers to get advance approval for overtime.The Daily News, founded in 1919, was once a formidable city tabloid that raced for scoops against its rival, The New York Post, and was one of the largest newspapers in the country by circulation. But in recent years, the paper has been hollowed out by ownership changes and staffing cuts as it struggled against ever-declining circulation and dwindling revenue.In 2021, its parent company, Tribune Publishing, was purchased by Alden Global Capital, an investment firm that has bought up hundreds of newspapers across the country, acquiring a reputation along the way for making deep cuts to newsrooms.About a third of union members have left The Daily News since spring 2022, with membership now at 54 people, according to the union.“In reality, we’re being crushed for cash,” Michael Gartland, a Daily News reporter and union steward, said in a statement. “As a result, staff is diminished, which means our ability to cover the city is diminished.”A spokeswoman for Alden Global Capital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The last work stoppage at The Daily News was a five-month strike in 1990 and 1991.On Thursday, Daily News journalists plan to picket outside a co-working space that now serves at their temporary office. The Daily News permanently closed its newsroom in Lower Manhattan in 2020. More

Nikki Haley, facing growing doubts and pressure to drop out, has winnowed the race to a one-on-one contest and is looking to make her case in South Carolina.A combative Nikki Haley brought her presidential campaign back to South Carolina on Wednesday after a disappointing defeat the night before in New Hampshire, and told a boisterous crowd in a cavernous ballroom in North Charleston that she would fight Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination.“The political elites in this state and around the country say we just need to let Donald Trump have this,” she told her supporters, who were jeering at the idea. “Listen. We’ve only had two states that have voted. We’ve got 48 more.”Nowhere is more immediately important than South Carolina, where she served two terms as governor before being tapped to serve as Mr. Trump’s first ambassador to the United Nations. But just because it’s her home state does not mean it is friendly territory. As Ms. Haley looked to reinvigorate her campaign here on the ground, Republicans, as varied as local party officials and the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, stepped up the pressure on her to drop out. As she made her case for pressing on, the former president significantly consolidated his support.While she spoke, the Trump campaign blasted out a fresh list of endorsements in South Carolina that now includes the state’s two senators, most of its House members, its governor and lieutenant governor, and much of its State House — more than 150 names in all.“Welcome home to Trump Country, Nikki,” Austin McCubbin, Mr. Trump’s South Carolina director, taunted.Some of Ms. Haley’s closest allies and confidants on Wednesday continued to insist that Ms. Haley had met her own expectations: She had winnowed the field and was now in the two-person contest she wanted, with time enough until the primary on Feb. 24 to spread her message to a broader electorate and draw contrasts between herself and Mr. Trump.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?  More

Employees at its Washington State factory are said to have removed the door plug for further work before the plane was delivered to Alaska Airlines.Nearly three weeks after a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight, terrifying passengers, new details about the jet’s production are intensifying scrutiny of Boeing’s quality-control practices.About a month before the Max 9 was delivered to Alaska Airlines in October, workers at Boeing’s factory in Renton, Wash., opened and later reinstalled the panel that would blow off the plane’s body, according to a person familiar with the matter.The employees opened the panel, known as a door plug, because work needed to be done to its rivets — which are often used to join and secure parts on planes — said the person, who asked for anonymity because the person isn’t authorized to speak publicly while the National Transportation Safety Board conducts an investigation.The request to open the plug came from employees of Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier that makes the body for the 737 Max in Wichita, Kan. After Boeing employees complied, Spirit employees who are based at Boeing’s Renton factory repaired the rivets. Boeing employees then reinstalled the door.An internal system that tracks maintenance work at the facility, which assembles 737s, shows the request for maintenance but does not contain information about whether the door plug was inspected after it was replaced, the person said.The details could begin to answer a crucial question about why the door plug detached from Flight 1282 at 16,000 feet, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport in Oregon minutes after taking off on Jan. 5. The door plug is placed where an emergency exit door would be if a jet had more seats. To stay in place, the plug relies primarily on a pair of bolts at the top and another pair at the bottom, as well as metal pins and pads on the sides.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?  More

Sam Ezersky raises the temperature in his grid.Jump to: Today’s Theme | Tricky CluesTHURSDAY PUZZLE — Sam Ezersky has a reputation for constructing some of the trickiest New York Times Crosswords, but sometimes he can be a softy. Today’s puzzle, for example, is fairly gentle by Thursday trickiness standards.That may disappoint some of the hard-core solverati, but for people who have been reluctant to push past Wednesday solving, this 16×15 grid is a compelling way to get started. It’s not an easy puzzle by any means, but it is a lot of fun.Mr. Ezersky is also a digital puzzle editor and the man behind Spelling Bee (please send all strongly worded correspondence to [email protected]). This puzzle is his 53rd in The New York Times.Today’s ThemeMr. Ezersky offers a theme set in which the four italicized clues hint at the places where one could find “mercury.” Are we supposed to be thinking solely of the element or the planet? Of course not; this is a Thursday puzzle. There are more mercuries than that. You just have to use your imagination.The theme clue at 17A reads “Mercury is in this,” and the answer is GLASS THERMOMETER. This was a no-brainer for me, which I’m frankly surprised still works at full capacity, considering that my mother allowed my sister and me to play with the silvery stuff every time a thermometer broke.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?  More

The F.A.A. approved inspection guidelines for the 737s, one of which lost a body panel in flight. Alaska Airlines planned to start using them again on Friday and United on Sunday.Federal regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to fly again — but also said they would put new limits on production of the troubled planes.The Federal Aviation Administration grounded about 170 Max 9 planes on Jan. 6 after a body panel detached from an Alaska Airlines Max 9 minutes after the flight took off from Portland, Ore., leaving a gaping hole in the side of the jet.On Wednesday, the agency approved a set of inspection and maintenance procedures and said airlines could resume flying the jets once the checks were complete. The process includes requiring airlines to inspect certain bolts and fasteners and to re-torque fasteners on the panel, known as a door plug, which is placed where an emergency exit door would be if a jet had more seats.United Airlines said that it would begin inspecting its 79 Max 9 planes under the new guidelines and that it expected to start using them again on flights on Sunday. Alaska Airlines said on its website that it planned to put a “few planes” back into service on Friday, “with more planes added every day as inspections are completed and each aircraft is deemed airworthy.” The airline said it expected to complete inspections on all 65 of its Max 9 planes over the next week.In a statement on Wednesday, Mike Whitaker, the F.A.A. administrator, said the agency was convinced that, with the necessary checks, the planes were safe.“We grounded the Boeing 737-9 Max within hours of the incident over Portland and made clear this aircraft would not go back into service until it was safe,” he said.But while existing planes could begin flying in a matter of days, the F.A.A. made it clear that Boeing’s troubles were far from over. In its statement, the agency said it would not allow Boeing to expand production of any of the 737 Max planes — not just the Max 9 but also other versions of the plane.“Let me be clear: This won’t be back to business as usual for Boeing,” Mr. Whitaker said in the statement. He said the agency would not approve production increases until it was “satisfied that the quality-control issues uncovered during this process are resolved.”The F.A.A. order is the latest in a series of problems for Boeing, and the 737 Max in particular. The line of fuel-efficient planes was meant to help the company regain ground it had lost to its European competitor, Airbus, and it quickly became the best-selling jet in Boeing’s history. But crashes of a different variant of the plane, the Max 8, in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people and led to the Max’s being grounded worldwide.The near disaster in January led to renewed scrutiny on quality control at Boeing and its contractors, including Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier that makes the body for the 737 Max in Wichita, Kan.The F.A.A. said on Wednesday that it would increase oversight of Boeing and begin an investigation into the company’s practices.“The quality-assurance issues we have seen are unacceptable,” Mr. Whitaker said. “That is why we will have more boots on the ground closely scrutinizing and monitoring production and manufacturing activities.”In a statement after the F.A.A. announcement on Wednesday, Boeing said it would “continue to cooperate fully and transparently” with the agency and follow its direction.“We will also work closely with our airline customers as they complete the required inspection procedures to safely return their 737-9 airplanes to service,” the company said.Sydney Ember More