EditorialRamona Ferreyra, a resident of the Mitchel Houses public housing project in the South Bronx, started her own baby clothing company after an autoimmune disorder prevented her from working in an office. (Carly Zavala/The New York Times)
EditorialA makeshift memorial for 7-year-old Julissia Batties, who was found unconscious with a head injury, in the lobby of where she lived at the Mitchel Houses in the Bronx on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialYolanda Davis, outside the Mitchel Houses in the Bronx, on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, holds a cellphone photograph of her and her granddaughter, Julissia Batties, 7, who was found unconscious and pronounced dead on Tuesday morning. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialDeidra Mitchel, CEO of Waseyabek Development Company, stands for a portrait outside of McKay Tower in Grand Rapids, Mich., May 28, 2021. (Emily Rose Bennett/The New York Times)
EditorialCurtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and a Republican candidate for New York City mayor, checks into the voting site at Frank McCourt High School in Manhattan on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialTwiggy to Go in New York on Feb. 26, 2021. The chef Mitchel London has opened a takeaway spot named for his business partner’s mother, Twiggy. (Colin Clark/The New York Times)
EditorialMelissa Goenaga, an employee of a cleaning company, sanitizes elevator buttons at Mitchel Houses in New York on April 27, 2020. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)