A selection of writing by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who died on Thursday, as chosen by his New York Times colleagues.

Article describes harrowing escape of Jan Demczur and five others, who were trapped in an elevator inside 1 World Trade Center (M)

The last words of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.

The Yankees’ raging and winning owner championed ordinary New Yorkers, and took them for every penny.

Rory Staunton, 12, went to the emergency room with a sick stomach and fever one day in March; he was sent home, and three days later, he died of septic shock.

Michelle and Curtis Urbina frantically traveled Friday from different directions to reunite with their daughter, a student at Sandy Hook Elementary.

No one could pull out a cellphone to make a video of Clifford Glover, a black 10-year-old who was fatally shot by a white officer while running away on a spring morning.

A columnist’s run-in with Donald J. Trump nearly 18 years ago reveals something about how the presidential candidate has always acted.

With the future of the E.P.A. now in doubt, it’s worth recalling what New York City was like before the agency and the movement it represented.

The pope made public appearances and shared private moments among the people and the powerful in Washington.

An old woman leaves a pot of food on a rock outside her daughter’s house. A century later, others roll trays of meals to people with Covid-19.

“When They See Us” revisits the case of the wrongfully convicted teenage boys. A writer who covered the original trial looks back on a warped time, and the warping of truth.

A selection of writing by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who died on Thursday, as chosen by his New York Times colleagues.

Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.