New York City

Rockaway Beach around 75th Street is the closest spot to keep your fun in the sun going after your lesson. Lifeguards are on duty daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. See these nearby spots on our Google Map. P.S. Theres much more to see and do in the neighborhood.…

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The U.S. Womens Soccer team has broken records and captured our hearts in its run up to Sundays World Cup Finals victory; in return, we owe them a good old fashioned ticker tape parade. New York City is hosting the USWNT today starting at 9:30 a.m. (ET) wit…

World Cup soccer champs to get hero's welcome in NYC The United States women's national team will get a ticker-tape parade up lower Manhattan on Wednesday in honor of their record-breaking World Cup win. It's the city's first ticker-tape parade since the wom…

Dear Diary: I grew up in a small town in Kentucky in the 1950s. My parents knew nothing about classical music, but they thought they should offer it to their children. They acquired a long-playing record for that purpose, to no avail. At college, in Virginia…

The United States women’s national team will be honored Wednesday with a parade in New York City. The Americans won their second straight World Cup title on Sunday, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday in Lyon, France. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ann…

Pop quiz: Which is greater on graduation day in New York: the number of graduates or the number of emotions? In late June, the city is filled with students deep in their feels. A…

Jilly Edgar, 20, a New York University student and member of the Sunrise Movement, which advocates for Green New Deal policies, said she struggled to think of the future. That should be a time, she said, when the world is becoming my own, and moving forward i…

(CNN)A Virgin Atlantic flight headed to London from New York City was diverted to Boston after a small fire broke out in the first class cabin Thursday night, a passenger said. The flight's 217 passengers were safely evacuated after the emergency landing, th…