Al Jazeera English
| Jun 17, 2013
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is blaming New York University for caving in to pressure from the Chinese government to kick him (and his family) out after a year-long fellowship at the school. NYU claims his fellowship simply expired, and the un...
ABC News (Australia)
| Jun 12, 2013
A 17-year-old mom pulled her baby daughter from her mangled stroller beneath a cab after the car careened over lanes to jump a curb and mow down both of them in the Bronx. The child and mom suffered only minor injuries. The accident occurred when ...
Associated Press
| Jun 3, 2013
Want to see how some popular athletes at the top of their game react to a giant crack of thunder? Just like we do. New York Yankees players gathered in the dugout to get out of a downpour in last night's game nearly jump out of their skins when th...
Al Jazeera English
| May 15, 2013
With wrestling facing the axe from the Olympics, Iran, Russia, and the US have formed an unlikely alliance to save it. To help the cause, the top wrestlers from all three countries met for exhibition matches in New Yorkk's Grand Central Station in...
The Wall Street Journal
| Apr 30, 2013
New York City is being sued by some residents made temporarily homeless by superstorm Sandy after officials moved to eject them from hotels where they have been living. The city says it can no longer afford the hotel tab, but residents argue that ...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 3, 2013
At his most recent public event campaigning for gun control, US President Barack Obama chastised those he called "powerful voices on the other side interested in running out the clock... to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all." But ...
Euronews
| Apr 1, 2013
New York City workers are sifting through rubble from the 9/11 attack again beginning today in a bid to identify the remains of more victims. Some 1,600 victims have been identified, but that leaves 1,000 others whose remains have not been found....
IBTimes UK
| Mar 26, 2013
Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York were treated to the sight of Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton sawing some zzzs as she slept in a glass box. Her appearance was part of a performance art piece called "The Maybe." Swinton wil...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Mar 17, 2013
Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed as New York City's annual Saint Patrick's Day parade kicked off Saturday, and people with a fondness for anything Irish began a weekend of festivities from the Louisiana bayou to Dublin.
Associated Press
| Mar 11, 2013
New York City's pound-breaking limit on the size of sugar-laden drinks to help protect New Yorkers' health and waistlines has been struck down by a judge a day before it was to take effect. He said the law, hated by the beverage industry, was ridd...
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...against the Conscription Act passed in March of 1863, which made all single men age 20-45 and married men up to 35 were subject to the draft lot...
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...released this limited edition gift set called NARS Hearts New York City and I want it. NARS Hearts New York City is based on NYC’s top-selling h...
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...always ahead of the curve. *If left unmolested, of course New Yorkers are gonna turn their homes into illegal squat hotels. It’s New York. Anybo...
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2012 population of 8,336,697 distributed over a land area of just 302.64 square miles, New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles, and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.2 million people as of 2011.
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