The Week in Pictures for Nov. 4

Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a very early snowfall, a statue that moved to the finish line of the marathon and a junkyard soccer game in Queens.

This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,” an inside look at the most compelling articles in Sunday’s Times, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times’s Nate Silver, Michael Powell, Arthur Brisbane and the obituary editor William McDonald. Also appearing, Bruce Jay Friedman.

Tune in at 10 p.m. on Saturday or 10 a.m. on Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

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