EditorialCurtis Sliwa, left, the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, holds a rescue kitten, Gizmo, as he joins his wife, Nancy Sliwa, center, a Republican candidate for New York City Council District 6, and Carmen Quinones, center left, a candidate for New York City Council District 7, as they check in at a polling station inside Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School in Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, the first day of early voting. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialJose Rivera, left, and Steven Quinones distance chairs more than 6 feet apart at The Shed in New York, April 21, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialDanifer Quinones, from Fort Myers, Fla., picks up her swans to take home, in Lakeland, Fla. on Oct. 15, 2020. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times)
EditorialDiego Gerena-Quinones, with the nonprofit Transfernation, cycles through Manhattan to deliver excess food from a private equity firm to a soup kitchen, in New York, Feb. 18, 2020. (Cristina Baussan/The New York Times)