But to kick off 2020, we took a look back at some other examples of our in-depth journalism from the New York region.

Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited 72 years later. He had one question.

David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer were Jewish inmates in Auschwitz. Amid the horrors there, they became lovers. When they reunited in Manhattan, Ms. Spitzer confirmed what Mr. Wisnia long suspected: She was the reason he survived the death camp.

Her “Prince Charming” turned out to be a crazed hit man on the run

Blanche Wright thought he was a lawyer. She became his prisoner. After a drug-fueled killing spree, he was dead and she was sent to prison. It was the first place in her life where Ms. Wright would feel, as strange as it sounds, free.

114,000 students in New York City are homeless. These two let us into their lives.

Darnell is 8 and commutes 15 miles a day to school. Sandivel is 10, and shares a bedroom in Brooklyn with her mother and four brothers. For thousands of homeless students, school is the only stable place they know.