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Thomas SchiavoniT. SchiavoniSchiavoni Democrat 56%
Stephen KielyS. KielyKiely Republican 44%
Jodi GiglioJ. GiglioGiglio*incumbent Republican 65%
Tricia ChiaramonteT. ChiaramonteChiaramonte Democrat 35%
Joseph De StefanoJ. De StefanoDe Stefano*incumbent Republican 61%
Trina MilesT. MilesMiles Democrat 39%
Rebecca KassayR. KassayKassay Democrat 50.4%
Edward FloodE. FloodFlood*incumbent Republican 49.6%
Douglas SmithD. SmithSmith*incumbent Republican 65%
Michael ReynoldsM. ReynoldsReynolds Democrat 35%
Philip RamosP. RamosRamos*incumbent Democrat 65%
Daniel MitolaD. MitolaMitola Republican 35%
Jarett GandolfoJ. GandolfoGandolfo*incumbent Republican 63%
Garrett PetersenG. PetersenPetersen Democrat 37%
Michael FitzpatrickM. FitzpatrickFitzpatrick*incumbent Republican 66%
Steven BasileoS. BasileoBasileo Democrat 34%
Michael DursoM. DursoDurso*incumbent Republican 66%
Steven DellaVecchiaS. DellaVecchiaDellaVecchia Democrat 34%
Steve SternS. SternStern*incumbent Democrat 56%
Aamir SultanA. SultanSultan Republican 44%
Kwani O’PharrowK. O’PharrowO’Pharrow Democrat 50.2%
Joseph CardinaleJ. CardinaleCardinale Republican 49.8%
Keith BrownK. BrownBrown*incumbent Republican 57%
Thomas CoxT. CoxCox Democrat 43%
Charles LavineC. LavineLavine*incumbent Democrat 57%
Ruka AnzaiR. AnzaiAnzai Republican 43%
David McDonoughD. McDonoughMcDonough*incumbent Republican 60%
Ellen Lederer DeFrancescoE. Lederer DeFrancescoLederer DeFrancesco Democrat 40%
Jake BlumencranzJ. BlumencranzBlumencranz*incumbent Republican 55%
William MurphyW. MurphyMurphy Democrat 45%
Gina SillittiG. SillittiSillitti*incumbent Democrat 51%
Daniel NorberD. NorberNorber Republican 49%
John MikulinJ. MikulinMikulin*incumbent Republican 62%
Harpreet ToorH. ToorToor Democrat 38%
Noah BurroughsN. BurroughsBurroughs Democrat 85%
Danielle SmikleD. SmikleSmikle Republican 15%
Edward RaE. RaRa*incumbent Republican 64%
Sanjeev JindalS. JindalJindal Democrat 36%
Eric BrownE. BrownBrown*incumbent Republican 63%
Tina PosterliT. PosterliPosterli Democrat 37%
Judy GriffinJ. GriffinGriffin Democrat 55%
Brian CurranB. CurranCurran*incumbent Republican 45%
Michaelle SolagesM. SolagesSolages*incumbent Democrat 64%
Ian BergstromI. BergstromBergstrom Republican 36%
Stacey Pheffer AmatoS. Pheffer AmatoPheffer Amato*incumbent Democrat 51%
Thomas SullivanT. SullivanSullivan Republican 49%
David WeprinD. WeprinWeprin*incumbent Democrat 61%
Ruben CruzR. CruzCruz Republican 36%
Nily RozicN. RozicRozic*incumbent Democrat 53%
Kenneth PaekK. PaekPaek Republican 47%
Edward BraunsteinE. BraunsteinBraunstein*incumbent Democrat 68%
Robert SperanzaR. SperanzaSperanza Conservative 32%
Sam BergerS. BergerBerger*incumbent Democrat 57%
Angelo KingA. KingKing Republican 43%
Andrew HevesiA. HevesiHevesi*incumbent Democrat 58%
Jonathan RinaldiJ. RinaldiRinaldi Republican 42%
Alicia HyndmanA. HyndmanHyndman*incumbent Democrat 86%
Dwayne MooreD. MooreMoore Republican 14%
Steven RagaS. RagaRaga*incumbent Democrat 60%
Brandon CastroB. CastroCastro Republican 40%
Khaleel AndersonK. AndersonAnderson*incumbent Democrat
Vivian CookV. CookCook*incumbent Democrat
Clyde VanelC. VanelVanel*incumbent Democrat
Jessica Gonzalez-RojasJ. Gonzalez-RojasGonzalez-Rojas*incumbent Democrat
Larinda HooksL. HooksHooks Democrat
Zohran MamdaniZ. MamdaniMamdani*incumbent Democrat
Claire ValdezC. ValdezValdez Democrat
Jenifer RajkumarJ. RajkumarRajkumar*incumbent Democrat
Catalina CruzC. CruzCruz*incumbent Democrat
Ron KimR. KimKim*incumbent Democrat 55%
Philip WangP. WangWang Republican 45%
Kalman YegerK. YegerYeger Democrat
Rodneyse BichotteR. BichotteBichotte*incumbent Democrat
Brian CunninghamB. CunninghamCunningham*incumbent Democrat
Robert CarrollR. CarrollCarroll*incumbent Democrat 85%
John BennettJ. BennettBennett Republican 15%
Michael NovakhovM. NovakhovNovakhov*incumbent Republican 50.5%
Joey Cohen-SabanJ. Cohen-SabanCohen-Saban Democrat 49.5%
Alec Brook-KrasnyA. Brook-KrasnyBrook-Krasny*incumbent Republican 53%
Chris McCreightC. McCreightMcCreight Democrat 47%
William ColtonW. ColtonColton*incumbent Democrat 61%
David SepiashviliD. SepiashviliSepiashvili Republican 39%
Simcha EichensteinS. EichensteinEichenstein*incumbent Democrat
Lester ChangL. ChangChang*incumbent Republican
Emily GallagherE. GallagherGallagher*incumbent Democrat
Marcela MitaynesM. MitaynesMitaynes*incumbent Democrat 77%
Erik FrankelE. FrankelFrankel Republican 23%
Jo Anne SimonJ. SimonSimon*incumbent Democrat 94%
Brett WynkoopB. WynkoopWynkoop Conservative 6%
Maritza DavilaM. DavilaDavila*incumbent Democrat
Erik DilanE. DilanDilan*incumbent Democrat
Latrice WalkerL. WalkerWalker*incumbent Democrat 92%
Berneda JacksonB. JacksonJackson Republican 8%
Stefani ZinermanS. ZinermanZinerman*incumbent Democrat
Phara ForrestP. ForrestForrest*incumbent Democrat
Monique Chandler-WatermanM. Chandler-WatermanChandler-Waterman*incumbent Democrat
Jaime WilliamsJ. WilliamsWilliams*incumbent Democrat
Nikki LucasN. LucasLucas*incumbent Democrat
Charles FallC. FallFall*incumbent Democrat
Michael ReillyM. ReillyReilly*incumbent Republican
Sam PirozzoloS. PirozzoloPirozzolo*incumbent Republican 58%
Matthew MobiliaM. MobiliaMobilia Democrat 42%
Michael TannousisM. TannousisTannousis*incumbent Republican
Grace LeeG. LeeLee*incumbent Democrat
Deborah GlickD. GlickGlick*incumbent Democrat
Linda RosenthalL. RosenthalRosenthal*incumbent Democrat
Edward GibbsE. GibbsGibbs*incumbent Democrat
Micah LasherM. LasherLasher Democrat
Jordan WrightJ. WrightWright Democrat 91%
Seson AdamsS. AdamsAdams Republican 9%
Al TaylorA. TaylorTaylor*incumbent Democrat 87%
Joziel AndujarJ. AndujarAndujar Republican 13%
Manny De Los SantosM. De Los SantosDe Los Santos*incumbent Democrat
Alex BoresA. BoresBores*incumbent Democrat 74%
Awadhesh GuptaA. GuptaGupta Republican 26%
Harvey EpsteinH. EpsteinEpstein*incumbent Democrat
Tony SimoneT. SimoneSimone*incumbent Democrat
Rebecca SeawrightR. SeawrightSeawright*incumbent Democrat
Landon DaisL. DaisDais*incumbent Democrat 75%
Norman Sobe McGillN. McGillMcGill Republican 21%
George AlvarezG. AlvarezAlvarez*incumbent Democrat 74%
John SantiagoJ. SantiagoSantiago Republican 26%
Chantel JacksonC. JacksonJackson*incumbent Democrat 80%
Sharon DarbyS. DarbyDarby Republican 16%
John ZaccaroJ. ZaccaroZaccaro*incumbent Democrat 68%
Nicholas MarriccoN. MarriccoMarricco Republican 27%
Jeffrey DinowitzJ. DinowitzDinowitz*incumbent Democrat 77%
Kevin PazminoK. PazminoPazmino Republican 23%
Michael BenedettoM. BenedettoBenedetto*incumbent Democrat 69%
Juan De la CruzJ. De la CruzDe la Cruz Republican 31%
Carl HeastieC. HeastieHeastie*incumbent Democrat 89%
Stephanie LiggioS. LiggioLiggio Republican 11%
Amanda SeptimoA. SeptimoSeptimo*incumbent Democrat 77%
Rosaline NievesR. NievesNieves Republican 20%
Emerita TorresE. TorresTorres Democrat 79%
Kelly AtkinsonK. AtkinsonAtkinson Republican 18%
Yudelka TapiaY. TapiaTapia*incumbent Democrat 75%
Woodrow Hines, Jr.W. Hines, Jr.Hines, Jr. Republican 23%
Karines ReyesK. ReyesReyes*incumbent Democrat
Amy PaulinA. PaulinPaulin*incumbent Democrat 61%
Thomas FixT. FixFix Republican 39%
Gary PretlowG. PretlowPretlow*incumbent Democrat
Nader SayeghN. SayeghSayegh*incumbent Democrat 55%
John IsaacJ. IsaacIsaac Republican 45%
Steven OtisS. OtisOtis*incumbent Democrat 62%
Katie MangerK. MangerManger Republican 38%
MaryJane ShimskyM. ShimskyShimsky*incumbent Democrat 59%
Alessandro CroccoA. CroccoCrocco Republican 41%
Chris BurdickC. BurdickBurdick*incumbent Democrat
Matthew SlaterM. SlaterSlater*incumbent Republican 64%
Zachary CouzensZ. CouzensCouzens Democrat 36%
Dana LevenbergD. LevenbergLevenberg*incumbent Democrat 60%
Michael CapalboM. CapalboCapalbo Republican 40%
Patrick CarrollP. CarrollCarroll Democrat 58%
Ronald DizR. DizDiz Republican 42%
John McGowanJ. McGowanMcGowan*incumbent Republican 50%
Aron WiederA. WiederWieder Democrat 46%
Karl BrabenecK. BrabenecBrabenec*incumbent Republican
Christopher EachusC. EachusEachus*incumbent Democrat 51%
Tom LapollaT. LapollaLapolla Republican 49%
Paula KayP. KayKay Democrat 52%
Louis IngrassiaL. IngrassiaIngrassia Republican 48%
Brian MaherB. MaherMaher*incumbent Republican
Christopher TagueC. TagueTague*incumbent Republican 64%
Janet Tweed TweedJ. TweedTweed Democrat 36%
Sarahana ShresthaS. ShresthaShrestha*incumbent Democrat 64%
Jack HayesJ. HayesHayes Republican 36%
Jonathan JacobsonJ. JacobsonJacobson*incumbent Democrat
Anil BeephanA. BeephanBeephan*incumbent Republican
Didi BarrettD. BarrettBarrett*incumbent Democrat 58%
Stephan KrakowerS. KrakowerKrakower Republican 42%
Chloe PierceC. PiercePierce Democrat 55%
Scott BendettS. BendettBendett*incumbent Republican 45%
John McDonaldJ. McDonaldMcDonald*incumbent Democrat
Gabriella RomeroG. RomeroRomero Democrat 72%
Alicia PurdyA. PurdyPurdy Republican 28%
Phillip SteckP. SteckSteck*incumbent Democrat 58%
Jeff MaddenJ. MaddenMadden Republican 42%
Angelo SantabarbaraA. SantabarbaraSantabarbara*incumbent Democrat 62%
Joseph MastroianniJ. MastroianniMastroianni Republican 38%
Mary Beth WalshM. WalshWalsh*incumbent Republican 61%
Joe SeemanJ. SeemanSeeman Democrat 39%
Carrie WoernerC. WoernerWoerner*incumbent Democrat 56%
Jeremy MessinaJ. MessinaMessina Republican 44%
Matthew SimpsonM. SimpsonSimpson*incumbent Republican
Billy JonesB. JonesJones*incumbent Democrat
Scott GrayS. GrayGray*incumbent Republican
Kenneth BlankenbushK. BlankenbushBlankenbush*incumbent Republican
Robert SmullenR. SmullenSmullen*incumbent Republican
Marianne ButtenschonM. ButtenschonButtenschon*incumbent Democrat 50.5%
Christine EspositoC. EspositoEsposito Republican 49.5%
William BarclayW. BarclayBarclay*incumbent Republican
Joe AngelinoJ. AngelinoAngelino*incumbent Republican 66%
Vicki DavisV. DavisDavis Democrat 34%
Brian MillerB. MillerMiller*incumbent Republican 63%
Adrienne MartiniA. MartiniMartini Democrat 37%
Donna LupardoD. LupardoLupardo*incumbent Democrat 59%
Lisa OKeefeL. OKeefeOKeefe Republican 41%
Christopher FriendC. FriendFriend*incumbent Republican
Anna KellesA. KellesKelles*incumbent Democrat
John LemondesJ. LemondesLemondes*incumbent Republican 54%
Ian PhillipsI. PhillipsPhillips Democrat 46%
Albert StirpeA. StirpeStirpe*incumbent Democrat 58%
Timothy KellyT. KellyKelly Republican 42%
Pamela HunterP. HunterHunter*incumbent Democrat 62%
Daniel CiciarelliD. CiciarelliCiciarelli Republican 38%
William MagnarelliW. MagnarelliMagnarelli*incumbent Democrat
Brian ManktelowB. ManktelowManktelow*incumbent Republican 54%
James SchulerJ. SchulerSchuler Democrat 46%
Jeff GallahanJ. GallahanGallahan*incumbent Republican
Philip PalmesanoP. PalmesanoPalmesano*incumbent Republican
Andrea BaileyA. BaileyBailey Republican 65%
Colleen Walsh-WilliamsC. Walsh-WilliamsWalsh-Williams Democrat 35%
Josh JensenJ. JensenJensen*incumbent Republican
Jen LunsfordJ. LunsfordLunsford*incumbent Democrat 60%
Kimberly DeRosaK. DeRosaDeRosa Republican 40%
Sarah ClarkS. ClarkClark*incumbent Democrat 69%
Orlando RiveraO. RiveraRivera Republican 31%
Demond MeeksD. MeeksMeeks*incumbent Democrat 72%
Marcus WilliamsM. WilliamsWilliams Republican 28%
Harry BronsonH. BronsonBronson*incumbent Democrat 62%
Tracy DiFlorioT. DiFlorioDiFlorio Republican 38%
Stephen HawleyS. HawleyHawley*incumbent Republican
William ConradW. ConradConrad*incumbent Democrat
Crystal PeoplesC. PeoplesPeoples*incumbent Democrat
Patrick BurkeP. BurkeBurke*incumbent Democrat 50.7%
Marc PrioreM. PriorePriore Republican 49.3%
Patrick ChludzinskiP. ChludzinskiChludzinski Republican 52%
Monica Piga WallaceM. Piga WallacePiga Wallace*incumbent Democrat 48%
Paul BolognaP. BolognaBologna Republican 62%
Michelle RomanM. RomanRoman Democrat 38%
Angelo MorinelloA. MorinelloMorinello*incumbent Republican 61%
Jeff ElderJ. ElderElder Democrat 39%
Karen McMahonK. McMahonMcMahon*incumbent Democrat 60%
Deborah KilbournD. KilbournKilbourn Republican 40%
David DiPietroD. DiPietroDiPietro*incumbent Republican 68%
Darci CramerD. CramerCramer Democrat 32%
Joseph SempolinskiJ. SempolinskiSempolinski Republican 64%
Daniel BrownD. BrownBrown Democrat 36%
Jonathan RiveraJ. RiveraRivera*incumbent Democrat
Andrew MolitorA. MolitorMolitor Republican 63%
Mike BobseineM. BobseineBobseine Democrat 37%
This summer’s World Cup will bring millions of soccer lovers to stadiums across North America. But whether it lives up to organizers’ lofty expectations could come down to fans like Brett Shields and John Milce of New South Wales, Australia.
Both men are longtime supporters of the Socceroos, their country’s men’s national soccer team, and both have traveled to the World Cup before. But only one is planning to go to this year’s tournament, which runs from June 11 to July 19 in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Mr. Shields, 59, is coming. He already has the proper travel authorization from past visits to see his daughter, who lives in San Francisco. He plans to stay with her and attend Socceroos matches there and in Seattle.
Mr. Milce, 76, who has been to six World Cups since 1966, is staying home. He said he had made comments online about President Trump’s policies and feared that he could be denied entry at the border because of the administration’s proposed social media checks and broader immigration crackdown.
“I’m not a poor man, but with the costs involved, it was too much to risk,” Mr. Milce said.
With the first kickoff less than 60 days away, tourism and hospitality leaders in the 11 U.S. host cities are watching international fans closely. The United States was the only major nation to register a decline in international tourism in 2025, and hints of lackluster demand have anxiety running high.
The research firm Tourism Economics projects that more than 1.2 million international visitors will travel to the United States for the World Cup. That includes nearly 750,000 who would not have otherwise come, amounting to a roughly 1.1 percentage point increase in international arrivals.
Still, the firm this month revised down its forecast for the rate of recovery from last year’s drop in tourists. Visa restrictions, fears of immigration agents (including at World Cup matches), an increase in phone searches at borders and, for fans, the exorbitant costs of match tickets and transportation are just some of the barriers keeping people away.
Mr. Shields said that if he didn’t already have his travel authorization and a free place to stay, “I doubt whether I’d probably travel over to the World Cup in the current climate.”
Safety Concerns and Travel Bans
The World Cup, which drew 3.4 million spectators in Qatar in 2022, is a blockbuster pretty much by definition, and organizers expect a large share of bookings, both domestic and international, to come in the final two months.
The U.S. Travel Association said this month that the World Cup has “extraordinary potential to deliver major economic gains” across the United States, but added that “safety concerns, policy perceptions and entry barriers could limit America’s ability to fully capitalize on the opportunity.”
In Seattle, the number of expected domestic World Cup visitors has grown by 30 percent since 2024, said Michael Woody, the chief engagement officer for Visit Seattle. At the same time, the expected number of international visitors has fallen by 17 percent, driven by a particularly sharp drop-off in Canadians.
Fans coming from countries like Haiti and Iran, on a list of 19 countries whose citizens Mr. Trump has barred from entering the United States, won’t be able to attend their national teams’ group stage matches at all. Supporters of soccer powerhouses like Ivory Coast and Senegal, among the 14 African nations whose citizens face tight visa restrictions, could be forced to post bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the country.
Adem Asha, 32, a Turkish citizen who lives in Slovakia, obtained a U.S. visa last year in order to watch Lionel Messi, of Argentina, and Cristiano Ronaldo, of Portugal, in what could be their last World Cup. But Mr. Asha, who was born in Syria, worried he could still be targeted by immigration agents. He decided this spring to call off his trip, a conclusion that left him “disappointed but also relieved.”
“I really don’t feel like going there, or spending that much money to go there, and then being denied at the port of entry,” said Mr. Asha, who said he did not consider going to Canada or Mexico because the matches he wanted to see, and the other sites he hoped to visit, were all in the United States.
Banking on Late Bookings
U.S. host cities are pinning their hopes on last-minute travelers. Zane Harrington, a spokesman for Visit Dallas, said he expected “a majority” of fans heading to the city to book their stays in the two months remaining before kickoff — or even during the tournament as teams advance out of the group stage.
Martha Sheridan, the chief executive of Meet Boston, the city’s marketing and tourism organization, said ticket sales for Gillette Stadium’s seven matches were “robust,” and that they were split roughly in thirds among New Englanders, domestic visitors from the rest of the country and international travelers.
Demand for hotels in Boston in June is up about 11 percent compared with the same period last year, she said. That increase was smaller than what her team had expected to see by this point when it began planning in 2024, she added, but she felt “very optimistic” that bookings would continue to rise in the coming weeks.
FIFA in recent weeks released blocks of thousands of hotel rooms across the three host countries, while local host committees downsized fan festivals in locations including New Jersey, San Francisco and Seattle, fueling discussion over whether demand was falling short of expectations.
But Jamie Lane, the chief economist and senior vice president for analytics at AirDNA, a company that collects and analyzes short-term-rental data, said it was common practice for major event hosts to scale back their room blocks as they make final preparations for staffing and sponsorships, and that the changes were not a sign of sluggish demand.
A spokesman for FIFA said the changes to fan festivals were not made in response to demand, noting that some of the events will now take place in several neighborhoods rather than in a large central location.
A Bigger, Less Predictable Event
Data published this month by AirDNA shows a rise in short-term-rental bookings, to varying degrees, in every host city. Bookings on group stage game days were up the most in Monterrey, Mexico, rising 564 percent, on average, compared with the same dates last year.
Bookings were up 209 percent in Mexico City, 171 percent in Kansas City, 152 percent in Miami and 52 percent in Toronto, according to AirDNA.
A range of factors, including which teams are competing and to what extent cities regulate short-term rentals, influence those figures. In San Francisco, where short-term-rental bookings were up 28 percent on group stage game days, Anna Marie Presutti, the chief executive of the San Francisco Travel Association, said she thought demand didn’t rise to its full potential because the war in Iran is complicating travel for fans from Jordan and Qatar, two teams that are playing there.
In New York, where short-term rentals are tightly restricted, hotel bookings during the World Cup period are “more or less the same” compared with the same period last year, said Vijay Dandapani, the chief executive of the Hotel Association of New York City.
International travelers generally stay longer and spend more money than Americans, giving them an outsize economic impact. An analysis published by Airbnb in February found that non-Americans coming to the United States for the World Cup planned to visit more destinations and travel three nights longer, on average, than Americans.
Sylvia Weiler, the president of global destinations at the travel marketing and data company Sojern, said the revamped structure of this World Cup — spread across three countries and featuring a record 48 teams — made it hard to project how travel patterns would play out as the tournament approached.
“We talk about what was expected,” Ms. Weiler said. “I would always put a slight caveat, because we did not know what to expect.”
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A 76-year-old man died on Friday after being shoved down the stairs at the 18th Street subway station in Manhattan, and the police arrested a suspect who had been arrested multiple times in recent months and had been discharged from Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward just hours before.
The victim, Ross Falzone, landed on his head at the bottom of the stairs and suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured spine and a fractured rib after a stranger rushed forward and pushed him, the police said.
Mr. Falzone had been walking north on Seventh Avenue toward the subway station in the Chelsea neighborhood on Thursday evening, said Brad Weekes, assistant commissioner of public information for the Police Department. Walking about 30 yards behind him was the stranger, according to surveillance footage from the scene, Mr. Weekes said. As Mr. Falzone reached the station, the man rushed forward and pushed him down the stairs. He was taken to Bellevue where he died shortly before 3 a.m. on Friday.
The death sparked outrage at City Hall. Mayor Zohran Mamdani quickly called for an investigation into how Bellevue handled the discharge of the suspect and suggested that institutional problems at the hospital might have led to the random attack.
“I am horrified by the killing of Ross Falzone and the circumstances that led to it,” Mr. Mamdani said in a news release on Friday, in which he ordered “an immediate investigation on what steps should have been taken to prevent this tragedy.”
Police identified the suspect as Rhamell Burke, 32.
In the three months preceding the attack, Mr. Burke was arrested four times, Mr. Weekes said, including an arrest on Feb. 2 in connection with an assault on a Port Authority police officer.
Mr. Burke’s most recent interaction with the police began at around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, when he approached a group of N.Y.P.D. officers outside the 17th Precinct station house on East 51st Street, Mr. Weekes said. He grabbed a stick from a pile of garbage on the street and approached the officers, who told him to drop the stick. When he did, officers placed Mr. Burke in a police vehicle and drove him to Bellevue, where he was admitted to the emergency room at around 3:40 p.m., Mr. Weekes said. Mr. Burke was taken to the hospital’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program for evaluation and treatment, Mr. Weekes said, and was released from the hospital one hour later.
He was just a mile and a half from the hospital when he encountered Mr. Falzone at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday afternoon, police officers found Mr. Burke in Penn Station, where they arrested him. He was in custody on Friday evening. It was unclear Friday if Mr. Burke had a lawyer.
The mayor said he had requested help from the New York State Department of Health, which will investigate the decision to release Mr. Burke from Bellevue and conduct a review of similar cases at the hospital. The state agency also will investigate psychiatric evaluation and discharge procedures across NYC Health and Hospitals, the city’s public hospital system, according to the news release.
Mr. Falzone was a retired high school teacher who lived alone for many years in an apartment building on the Upper West Side. His friends were in shock on Friday about his death. They shared memories of an affable but private man who rarely spoke about his family or personal life.
Mr. Falzone had been recovering from a recent surgery and seemed more mobile and happy, said Marc Stager, 78, Mr. Falzone’s next-door neighbor on a tree-lined block of West 85th Street. He was known as a cheerful “yapper,” said Briel Waxman, a neighbor. He was the kind of New Yorker who enjoyed chatting with neighbors about historical details of his building and seeing performances at Lincoln Center with friends.
“He was always out and about,” said Ms. Waxman, 35, who often returned to her apartment at midnight or 1 a.m. to find Mr. Falzone arriving home at the same time. “I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m proud of you or embarrassed of myself,’” she remembered telling him.
Mr. Falzone had wide taste in music — opera, classical, jazz, pop — and neighbors could tell he was home when they heard notes escaping from under his apartment door, Mr. Stager said.
He was “a helpless old guy,” said Mr. Stager, who added that he was “disappointed and shocked, frankly, that somebody could do such a thing” as shove such a defenseless person down the stairs.
When Ms. Waxman moved into the building five years ago, Mr. Falzone was among the first people to welcome her, she said. He once brought a package to her door that had been delivered to the wrong unit and shared that what is now a blank wall in her apartment had once been a fireplace.
Ms. Waxman sat in her living room on Friday and cried as she talked, dabbing her eyes with a tissue. She remembered Mr. Falzone as “just overall, nice, talkative, genuine human.”
A suicide note purported to be written by the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein while he was in jail in 2019 uses language that in some cases echoes his past writings to friends and family.
One phrase found in the apparent suicide note — “No Fun” — also appears on a handwritten page found in Mr. Epstein’s jail cell at the time of his death, as well as in emails he sent over the years.
And another saying in the suicide note — “watcha want me to do — bust out cryin!!” — appears in emails that Mr. Epstein had written to people close to him.
A cellmate claimed that Mr. Epstein left the suicide note before he was found unresponsive in their cell weeks before his death. The New York Times reported on the note last week and successfully asked a federal judge to unseal it.
If authentic, the note gives a view into Mr. Epstein’s mind-set before he was found dead at age 66 in August 2019. The New York City medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
‘NO FUN’
A different handwritten note was found in Mr. Epstein’s cell when he died, and investigators believed it was written by him. In that document, Mr. Epstein complained about jail conditions — burned food, giant bugs and being kept in a locked shower. He concluded it with the underlined phrase, “NO FUN!!”
Mr. Epstein also used the phrase in emails when describing things he was unhappy about, or situations that had not gone his way.
‘watcha want me to do — bust out cryin’
Mr. Epstein used the phrase “watcha want me to do — bust out cryin” with friends, and in messages to his brother, Mark Epstein.
Like the note released by the judge, Mr. Epstein’s emails were often short, with staccato phrases and erratic punctuation. The emails were contained in millions of pages of documents the Justice Department released in response to a law passed last year requiring disclosure of records pertaining to Mr. Epstein.
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