EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialAnna Wetzel, center, helps set up for 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)
EditorialRaft-like platforms that float on the surface of Ago Bay, above thousands of oysters held in nets to create pearls that are sold around the world, at the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in Shima, Japan, April 27, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
EditorialSulekha Abdullahi, second from left in the back row, with her six children at the detention center in Izmir, Turkey, April 20, 2023. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
EditorialSulekha Abdullahi, second from left in the back row, with her six children at the detention center in Izmir, Turkey, April 20, 2023. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)