Battery Park

Ada Louise Huxtable memorial explores architecture critic's legacy

2013-06-05 11:29:00

NEW YORK -- On Tuesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum in New York the architecture world, or what felt like a pretty substantial cross-section of it, gathered to remember the pioneering New York Times and Wall Street Journal architecture critic...

PASSINGS: Jim Sweeney, Ira Rubin, Guy Tozzoli

2013-02-10 09:49:00

Jim Sweeney Coach transformed Fresno State football Jim Sweeney, 83, who called Fresno State "a sleeping giant" when he arrived as its football coach in 1976 and then awakened the university — and the region — with 19 years of...

World Trade Center, July 1986

2012-07-19 04:34:27

Jog your way around New York

2011-07-10 00:00:00

New Yorkers are always on the run. Bankers rush from Wall Street to Midtown; harried shoppers tear through the narrow streets of NoLita and SoHo. Travelers may find it hard to keep up with the pace — unless they bring their running shoes and join...

Occupy Wall Street, angry over eviction, occupies a new corner

2011-11-15 16:36:36

Bill Murray's poetry parade

2010-06-07 16:34:18

Writers bring their drama to Wall Street

2007-11-14 00:00:00

Striking TV and movie writers chose Wall Street as a symbolic backdrop Tuesday for their demand for a bigger slice of the new-media pie. Their argument in a nutshell: Entertainment companies brag to the investment community that the Internet is a growing...

They rose like a rocket and crashed with a boom

2007-01-21 00:00:00

AS the rambunctious entertainers of the Internet make their plays for the showbiz big leagues, these overnight superstars are enjoying the standard introduction to Hollywood. Which means not just glad-handing agents and Kafkaesque "lunch meetings" but...

To New York and back with $19 to spare

2004-10-24 00:00:00

Fly back with me to the year 2000. The average hotel rate in New York is $237 plus tax, or about $270. Three nights' lodging, two plane tickets from L.A., museum admissions, modest meals, cabs — suddenly a long weekend is $1,500. And you haven't...

Guidebook: At Ground Zero

2002-03-17 00:00:00

Getting there: American, United and Delta airlines fly nonstop from LAX to New York's JFK airport; restricted round-trip fares begin at $298. American, Continental and United fly nonstop to Newark, N.J.; fares begin at $278. Northwest, American Trans...

Ground Zero

2002-03-17 00:00:00

One of the first things you see when you approach the viewing platform that overlooks ground zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood, are the thousands of messages written on flags, bedsheets, planks, teddy bears, T-shirts, hats--anything...

Mixup of IDs Multiplies Heartbreak in N.Y.

2001-11-29 00:00:00

Three months after the World Trade Center tragedy, mistakes in the tallying and even burial of the enormous number of dead are starting to emerge. This week officials of the city medical examiner paid quiet, rueful visits to the homes of two...

Pedestrians cross Lexington Avenue during a nor'easter in New York. The storm will bring heavy winds, rain and sleet, and could reflood Battery Park and downtown Manhattan, areas that were affected by Superstorm Sandy.

2012-11-07 16:15:00

New Yorkers are seen around the flooded Battery Park underpass after Hurricane Sandy.

2012-10-31 17:54:00

New York's Battery Park underpass, completely flooded by Hurricane Sandy.

2012-10-31 13:39:00