New York City

NEW YORK A helicopter crashed into a building on 7th Avenue, halting traffic on nearby streets in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, the city Fire Department said Monday.  Photos on social media showed a major fire and police response to the area near Times Squ…

Uber's aerial commuter goals are landing at a helipad in New York this summer. Remember when Uber offered helicopter rides for a brief period in Brazil? It was three years ago, and only for a trial period, but UberCoper was briefly a thing. Now it's back, wi…

(NEW YORK) — New York City’s police commissioner has apologized for the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn that catalyzed the modern LGBT rights movement. Commissioner James O’Neill said Thursday that “the actions taken by the NYPD were wrong” at the gay …

There are graveyards of mangled bicycles sitting in vacant lots throughout villages and major cities in China. Local governments have long struggled with what to do with the millions of abandoned bicyclesthe result of an initial oversupply to support the coun…

Pretty much everyone in the UK knows who Boris Johnson is.  But perhaps folks in the U.S. have only really started to wonder recently, since he's a clear frontrunner to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, and has been compared to Donald Trump. So, on The Da…

While operating an ice cream truck in less urban areas may simply mean pulling up to a park, ball field or schoolyard, in Midtown Manhattan it means contending with some of the tightest parking regulations around, an area the legal complaint calls the most de…

Heat waves kill more Americans than any other weather event.  The torrid episodes are especially problematic in cities, where the concrete and asphalt sprawl traps heat, amplifying already unusually hot temperatures by some 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit.  Yet, …

Tracy Morgan’s $2-million Bugatti Veyron was hit by a Honda CR-V at a ritzy intersection in New York City just an hour after he purchased the vehicle. The comedian’s new buy was of a used vehicle technically, but, unfortunately for the Honda driver, it wasn’…

(NEW YORK) — New York prosecutors have asked federal prison officials to transfer Paul Manafort to New York City so he can be arraigned on state fraud charges. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is currently serving a 7 1/2-year sentence for b…

June is Pride Month, and this year New York City is hosting the first WorldPride on US soil in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. With over four million people expected to attend the annual LGBT Pride March on Sunday, June 30, finding a …