Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

New York's One World Trade Center spire finally goes up

2013-05-10 14:50:00

New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter. On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall,...

World Trade Center reaches new heights with permanent spire

2013-05-10 12:15:00

A spire set atop One World Trade Center on Friday was greeted with cheers from workers high in the air and spectators from the street below. The 408-foot spire, draped in an American flag, brought the New York City structure to a height of 1,776 feet,...

Air travelers begin feeling the effects of sequestration

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday at Los Angeles...

Tilda Swinton sleeps in a box at MoMA and Twitter is amused

2013-03-25 06:45:00

The tall stalk of pale, Scottish androgyny known as Tilda Swinton has brought her 1995 performance-art piece "The Maybe" to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The piece, which requires the Oscar-winning actress to lie inside a transparent box for hours...

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...

Stranded Carnival cruise ship expected to dock Thursday evening

2013-02-14 11:18:00

MOBILE, Ala. -- A stranded Carnival cruise ship being towed is expected to arrive in Mobile on Thursday evening, and officials said that although unusual, they do not expect delays bringing the ship into port after dark. A Carnival spokesman held a...

New delay possible for Carnival cruise ship as relatives wait

2013-02-14 08:41:00

MOBILE, Ala. -- Relatives descended on the port’s cruise ship terminal here Thursday morning at daybreak, prepared to greet the 4,200 passengers and crew members trapped aboard a Carnival cruise ship being slowly towed to harbor by several tug...

Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension

2012-12-28 10:13:00

The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...

Metrolink hires New York rail director as new chief

2012-09-14 17:32:55

Funding for 9/11 Memorial and Museum faces more questions

2012-06-18 08:00:00

The9/11 Memorial and Museum is facing more funding questions as the governors of New York and New Jersey have called on the federal government to step in and contribute more to the management of the site. The two governers have sent a letter to...

Day of terror in New York: Pages from a reporter's 9/11 journal

2011-08-21 00:00:00

The brown-leather journal is my passport to Sept. 11, 2001. When I hold it in my hands, images and memories are no further away than yesterday. I had no notebook with me when my husband and I dropped our children, 8 and 4, at school that morning. Then...

Monster Mash: National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum; Banksy artwork

2011-12-16 16:33:01

Port Authority and New York police view the damage a day after a truck bomb exploded in the garage of the World Trade Center.

2013-05-14 15:07:11

escuer leave the Riga Port Authority on March 29, 2013 in Riga. Latvian rescue workers and soldiers on Friday airlifted more than 200 people, mostly ice fishermen, from two ice floes adrift in the Gulf of Riga, officials said.

2013-03-29 09:48:00

Photos along the Elizabeth River of the APM Port off loaded importsVirginia Port Authority board meeting where commissioners will voted to abandon the controversial privatization plan today in downtown Norfolk.

2013-03-26 00:00:00