The Atlantic is announcing the first slate of speakers who will take part in The Atlantic Festival, its flagship event.

“We now have in New York something much more like a tropical-rainfall pattern,” Rohit Aggarwala, New York City’s environmental-protection commissioner, said yesterday at The Atlantic Festival.

More than a network of railway tracks connecting four of the five boroughs, some may consider it a city of its ... studio session with Atlantic Records. The three New York-based finalists running ...