Coetzee, in the city from which he had emerged, a city that he’d intermittently written about—without revealing much of it—and then left, in 2002. The 86-year-old author’s legacy, I’d been told, ...

Advocates and community leaders rallied in Rego Park in Queens on Wednesday, pushing state and city officials to prioritize and fund a project known as QueensLink. The concept would transform the long ...