USS New York Commissioning Today: Watch Live on the Web

The USS New York commissioning is happening today and it is open to VIP ticket holders, but for those of you who are not ticket holders the event is set to be streamed live on Navy.mil. The ceremony starts at 11am...

Empire State Building Color Scheme for Fall: Schedule

New York's Empire State Building has a new color scheme for fall, now that its mainly white phase of summer is over. The top three tiers of the building are lit in different colors to mark a new event throughout the...

'Spiderman' Alain Robert Climbs Cheung Kong Center in Hong Kong

Alain Robert, a French daredevil known as 'Spiderman,' has completed another death defying climb of a major skyscraper, this time in Hong Kong.  Robert scaled the outside of the Cheung Kong Center, an imposing...

Happy Ox-picious Lunar New Year - Chuc Mung Tet 2009

The Empire State Building is lit up in red and yellow to usher in the Year of the Ox, the lunar new year that is celebrated by Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean people around the world.  The special lighting...

Suicide at Empire State Building

A sad story from New York, where a middle-aged woman is reported to have committed suicide by jumping out of a window on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. " The 54-year-old Manhattan woman, whose name was witheld pending family notification, was working at North...

Daily News Steals the Empire State Building

It only took an hour and a half to steal the Empire State Building. By filing fake paperwork that nobody bothered to verify, the Daily News shed some light on a rather alarming loophole in New York's real-estate...

School violence hot line saves lives

"A national hot line that urges students to call in tips about weapons and school violence has gotten 198 calls about possible dangers in North Jersey since starting five years ago.In January, a caller told the...

48 Hours in New York

New York, New York - If you had 48 hours for a family weekend in New York City what would be your top five places to visit?Before giving the specifics about where we went during our 48 hours, I want to state that...

New York dims lights as heat strains power grid

 "Trying to forestall the crippling — and potentially hazardous — effects of the fiercest heat wave of the summer, New York City undertook a range of preventive measures yesterday, from shutting off the...

NYT MONDAY: CHEMICAL PLANT IN SHADOW OF NYC 'LOOSELY GUARDED'; EDITORS ARGUE ...

Editors at the NEW YORK TIMES are debating the merits of splashing a Monday scare story that will name "the most dangerous two miles in America" vulnerable to a possible terrorist strike. NYT reporter...

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