Other places of interest are Rockefeller Center; Battery Park City; Greenwich Village, with its cafés and restaurants; and Times Square, with its lights and theaters. Of historic interest are Fraunces Tavern (built 1719), where Washington said farewell to his officers after the American Revolution...
she drove from Tennessee to Harlem a few times to meet and eventually study with David Murray. “We were playing really high together and just screaming on the horn in class, and he said, 'Come on, give me moreâ€â„...
Known for his explosive athleticism and exceptional pick-and-roll skills, Stoudemire earned an All-NBA Second Team selection in 2011 and was named an All-Star three times with the Knicks. Although injuries ultimately limited his time on the court, Stoudemire's impact during his tenure remains a...
Sean Penn won Oscars for "Mystic River" and for "Milk." One of his early roles was in the teen movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" in 1982. Along with acting in "The Falcon and the Snowman," "Carlito's Way," and "Dead Man Walking," Penn directed "The Crossing Guard" and "Int...
TheTimes Unionreports Albany and Rensselaer counties were hit hard by high winds and thunderstorms that dumped as much as two inches of rain within a 30-minute period, causing flash flooding in the city of Albany and downed trees and thousands of power outages in Troy and other parts of Rens...
factsheets: laws Chevron broke; chart of sites that failed inspection;graph showing you can pollute 100 times more in Ecuador Chevron's top ten lies 1) No harm to the environment; 2) scientific evidence proves no harm; 3) we followed the industry standard; ...
Cardinal Dolan told Fox News he is currently reading a book on Winston Churchill and former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, saying that the two leaders were "mired in the realism, and at times, desperation, getting through war." "They never stopped dreaming of how to rebuild and reunite,...
One of these fast-moving streams can carry about 25 times the volume of water that's in the Mississippi, reported National Geographic. "In a way, they're actually the biggest rivers on earth," Marty Ralph, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., told...
The port’s incoming cargo of oil, tropical products, raw materials, and industrial products is three times greater than its outgoing shipments of industrial goods and foodstuffs. Most transatlantic air routes pass through New York. The city has three airports, the largest of which is the John ...