New York Today: The Real Dog Moms of New York City

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The Real Dog Moms of New York City The first-ever Miss Dog Mom USA pageant was held recently in Brooklyn. By RACHEL SYME AND AMY LOMBARD Inside the chaos, glitter and absolute furry cuteness of a puppy pageant.

Gabby Jones for The New York Times How Middle Schoolers Built 'Pizza Sail' (Hint: Without Their Phones) An after-school program invites students to build small sailboats from scratch, then test them out on the water. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times This Empty Lot Is Worth Millions. It's Also an African-American Burial Ground. By KAYA LATERMAN The owner of a plot of land in Queens wants to sell it or develop it. Others want to memorialize one of the city's first communities for former and freed slaves.

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Big City The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream By GINIA BELLAFANTE For generations, owning a small business has been a path upward for immigrants. That path is getting harder and harder to forge. Sunday Routine How Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka Spend Their Sundays By SHIVANI VORA 'There is no consistency to our routine except that we're together and spending quality time with the kids.' Album Bringing Up Robot Baby, a Teenage Rite of Passage By JULIANA SOHN AND JOHN LELAND Students around the country take home the infant simulators, with little evidence that they reduce pregnancy.

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