Battery Park City

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...

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

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...

Coastal cities and climate change: You're going to get wet

2013-06-19 00:00:00

BEFORE Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale’s concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida’s coastal highway. A month later another series of...

Levees, removable walls in plan to protect NYC

2013-06-11 11:18:00

�� NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing removable flood walls for much of lower Manhattan, a permanent 15-to-20-foot levee in part of Staten Island and a system of gates and levees at a Brooklyn creek as part of a nearly $20 billion...

NYC waters rise to Irene levels before superstorm

2012-10-29 09:00:00

NEW YORK (AP) — Waves splashed over the sea walls at the southern tip of Manhattan, already at Hurricane Irene levels Monday hours before the worst of a mammoth storm was to hit the nation's largest city with a wall of water that could reach 11...

After Sandy, NYC eyes moving power gear higher

2012-12-12 14:27:00

NEW YORK (AP) — A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring into low-lying substations and skyscraper basements and plunged half of Manhattan into...

Sandy's Wrath: Much of Manhattan is in the Dark and Subway Tunnels Are Filled With Water Amid Historic Flooding. The Big Question: How Bad is the Damage From Epic Storm?

2012-10-29 21:45:00

Historic Hurricane Sandy slammed the tri-state area Monday, leaving millions without power in the region, the lower Manhattan skyline darkened, sea water rushing into subway and car tunnels, and Hudson River water spilling deep into Manhattan streets. It...

MTA to Begin Shutdown of Mass Transit at 7 p.m. as Mandatory Evacuations Ordered for Low-Lying Areas

2012-10-28 14:08:00

With potentially historic Hurricane Sandy barreling toward the tri-state area, the MTA will begin to shut down the region's mass-transportation system at 7 p.m. Sunday and city officials have enacted mandatory evacuation for the more than a quarter-of-a-...

Welcome Home: Shuttle Enterprise Wows NYC

2012-04-27 15:43:00

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...

Prosecutors Won't Charge Greg Kelly In Rape Case

2012-02-07 16:33:00

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...

George Hendricks, who has lived in Manhattan for 50 years, watches the storm surge in Battery Park City.

2012-10-30 07:55:00

Women are reflected in the mirrored walls at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan 's Battery Park City .

2011-02-24 00:00:00

The US Airways Airbus 320 is towed and secured after it went down in the Hudson River.

2009-01-16 00:00:00