Richard Brodsky, a 14-term Democratic assemblyman from Westchester, representing the Lower Hudson Valley from 1983 to 2010, died April 8, at his home in Greenburgh, NY. He was 73.

Mr. Brodsky was a champion of the environment, a critic of safety precautions at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and a supporter of universal Internet access. As chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, he established an independent authorities budget office, which required greater transparency of agencies that had been operating largely independent of state government, such as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the New York State Thruway Authority, the Long Island Power Authority, and other agencies, and subjected them to greater oversight. “This is the most fundamental reform of state government in decades, and it’s a blueprint for further reform of state government,” he told The New York Times.

Mr. Brodsky ran for state attorney General in 2006, but abandoned his campaign to donate a kidney to one of his daughters. In 2010, he gave up his Assembly seat to seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Andrew M. Cuomo as attorney general, but lost the primary to Eric Schneiderman.

Wolf Kahn, a landscape painter who applied a vibrant, adventurous palette to studies of tangled forests and fog-shrouded mornings, quiet brooks and solitary barns, died March 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.

Hans Wolfgang Kahn was born in 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. The family was well off, and Mr. Kahn spent his childhood in a house filled with art. But his father was Jewish, and the rise of Hitler put the family in jeopardy. In 1939, his grandmother arranged for him to be sent to England in the Kindertransport program, which spirited thousands of children out of Germany.

Mr. Kahn studied with the influential artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. At his first solo show, he made a strong impression. “The paint spills and runs,” the New York Times wrote. “Color crackles with vivacity, brush might as well have been guided by a tornado as by hand.”

Mr. Kahn’s paintings didn’t often include figures. In an interview with the gallerist Jerald Melberg in 2011, he described working on a painting in Italy in 1963. “I kept moving the figure,” Mr. Kahn said. “First it was here. Then it was there. And then finally I put it over here. Then finally I painted it out altogether. As soon as I painted the figure out, I was happy.”

Rabbi Josef Neumann, 72, who was gravely injured in a Hanukkah assault in Monsey, NY, when he and a few dozen others had gathered in the home of a Hasidic rabbi. Around 10 p.m., a man barged into the home with a machete and began attacking people. Five were hospitalized with serious injuries; four quickly recovered, but Rabbi Neumann was in a coma after the attack. He died on March 29 at the Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, NY.

Grafton Thomas, 37, had been charged with attempted murder. Westchester County Police said the charge could be upped to murder.

Adam Schlesinger, an acclaimed singer-songwriter for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, who had an award-winning second career writing songs for film, theater and television, died April 1 in Poughkeepsie, NY. He was 52. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, his family said.

In the Fountains of Wayne, started in 1995, Mr. Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood perfected a novelistic form of hummable pop-rock. The group became a cult favorite.

Mr. Schlesinger found success in other media as well. He wrote the Beatlesesque theme song to “That Thing You Do!,” a 1996 film directed by Tom Hanks about an also-ran 1960s rock band. It had a catchy melody and a twisting chord progression that caught on immediately. The movie brought Mr. Schlesinger nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He also won three Emmys for his songs on the 2010s TV show, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”

He received two Grammy nominations with Fountains of Wayne, and a solo trophy for Stephen Colbert’s “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!,” for best comedy album.

Elinor Ross, born Elinor Marilyn Rosenthal, a soprano who made a dramatic Metropolitan Opera debut in 1970 as a last-minute replacement in the title role of “Turandot,” died March 6 in Manhattan. She was 93.

After a performance of “Aida,” she awoke the next day with a condition called Bell’s Palsy — a paralysis of the muscles in the face — which curtailed her career. After her illness struck, Ms. Ross had surgery and eventually was able to give occasional concerts.

Alan Turner, who drew on Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in acclaimed paintings and drawings that could be humorous, disturbing or poignant, died Feb. 8 at his loft in Lower Manhattan. He was 76.

Mr. Turner’s art was widely exhibited and wide ranging. In the late 1970s, he produced mesmerizing paintings of trees. Then came works featuring humanoid figures and faces, with body parts distorted or bizarrely placed. In recent years, spurred by cardboard shelters in the homeless encampments along the Tiber River that he saw on his frequent trips to Rome, he developed a series, mostly in graphite, that explored boxes that harbor people, pets or even memories.

In an interview with Dan Nadel, who curated a Parker Gallery show of his works and interviewed him for the catalogue in 2017, Mr. Turner said that unconscious and barely conscious influences went into creating his art, and into appreciating it.

Eva Szekely, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who later became an Olympics multiple award-winning swimmer, died Feb. 29. She was 92.

Fascist militants in Hungary took her away at age 17 and put her into a labor camp. She escaped by jumping onto a passing streetcar during a forced march through the city. She returned to her family, who were living in a two-room safe house, where she remained until liberated.

Throughout her career Szekely broke six world records, won 44 national titles, took home a gold in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, and earned a silver in the same race at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.

In 2004, Szekely was named one of Hungary’s “Athletes of the Nation.”