Battery Park

New York and New Jersey saw a spectacle in the sky that easily rivaled the Fourth of July fireworks, in part because it was a far more rare sight to behold. The space shuttle Enterprise flew piggyback over the most iconic landmarks in the city as part...

Manhattan prosecutors will not charge Fox anchor Greg Kelly with rape, District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced Tuesday. Kelly, host of 'Good Day New York' and son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, was accused of date rape after a night of drinking in a...

Audiovisual and lighting crews are in the plaza in front of City Hall preparing for a pep rally in which Mayor Bloomberg will present the world champion New York Giants with keys to the city early Tuesday afternoon. In the hours before that will be the...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did not waste anytime in shutting down reporters' request for comment on the rape allegations billowing around his son. "I'm not answering anything related to that matter," he told reporters at a NYPD promotion ceremony at...

His eulogy and obituary read like a love letter to the productivity of The Empire State and New York City. Thanks in no small way to Hugh Carey's efforts, six of the ten wealthiest zip codes in the wealthiest nation on Earth are in New York City,...

Free Wi-Fi will soon be available at 20 New York City parks, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday. The Wi-Fi roll out is part of a new five-year initiative unveiled by Bloomberg and CEO of AT&T Randall Stephenson. Wireless internet is already...

The proposed price of admission to the World Trade Center Memorial Museum is going to be a substantial $25, leaving some New Yorkers outraged. Angela Acevedo of the Upper West Side said, "Oh, really?! That's a lot of money." Rocky Claxton of Queens...

Mayor Bloomberg and former MTA chairman Jay Walder addressed the city Thursday evening, emphasizing that New Yorkers need to brace themselves for a storm that could cause widespread flooding, the cancellation of MTA service, structural damage to buildings...

As Hurricane Irene starts barreling herself towards the Outer Banks, five states declared a State of Emergency Thursday ahead of what will most certainly be a messy and wet weekend. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, New Jersey Gov....

Some say it is the price to pay for protection. Starting as soon as Friday night, there will be frozen zones near Ground Zero as the city remembers 9/11. If you live in Lower Manhattan, prepare for too many road closures to count. The City is not even...

More than 300 people turned out Saturday for the dedication of the 9/11 Responders Remembered Memorial Park in Nesconset, Long Island. The ceremony featured the unveiling of a 60-foot black granite wall . The names of about a thousand first responders...

A day after closing the chapter on ten years of mourning, New York City awakened to new life. Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials gathered at Battery Park City to plant a tree, as a symbol for the new chapter that is already being written. "If we're...