EditorialThe audience gathers on both sides of the rocky shore before a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialThe audience gathers on both sides of the rocky shore before a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialThe audience gathers on both sides of the rocky shore before a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialThe audience gathers on both sides of the rocky shore before a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialThe audience gathers on both sides of the rocky shore before a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialA map with color-coded pins marking the type of watercraft and where distress calls occurred in 2021 at the U.S. Coast Guard station in Sausalito, Calif., June 29, 2022. (Nina Riggio/The New York Times)
EditorialA string quartet plays Vivaldi?s ?Four Seasons from atop artist Livio De Marchi?s conception, an enormous motorized watercraft called Noah?s Violin, as it floats along the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy, with an escort of gondolas, Sept. 18, 2021. (Susan Wright/The New York Times)
EditorialA string quartet plays Vivaldi?s ?Four Seasons from atop artist Livio De Marchi?s conception, an enormous motorized watercraft called Noah?s Violin, as it floats along the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy, with an escort of gondolas, Sept. 18, 2021. (Susan Wright/The New York Times)