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A chartered boat capsizes in the Hudson River in New York City, killing two people and injuring three others. Twelve others are rescued alive from the water.
2022-07-12

A fire partially destroys the Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, United States.
2020-12-5

New York City begins the 50th Annual World Pride festival, expecting to draw four million people over six days.
2019-06-26

A helicopter with only the pilot onboard crashes into the Hudson River shortly after taking off from the West 30th Street Heliport in New York City injuring the pilot and the dockworker on the ground.
2019-05-15

New York police arrest members of Jewish group IfNotNow during a protest against Israeli actions. IfNotNow members were blockading a local politician, and have previously chained themselves to the Israeli consulate.
2018-04-10

A car crashes into pedestrians in New York City's Times Square, killing one person and injuring several others. Police are investigating the incident as an accident.
2017-05-18

The New York City Metropolitan Opera cancels its Saturday performances as a man, during an afternoon intermission, sprinkled an unidentified powder, suspected to be cremated ashes, into the orchestra pit. One person was exposed and requested medical attention.
2016-10-29

Two people are killed and 35 injured when a United States Amtrak passenger train on the Palmetto route traveling from New York City to Savannah, Georgia, with 341 passengers and seven crew on board, derails in Chester, Pennsylvania, after striking a backhoe that was on the track. Local media reports the deceased are veteran Amtrak workers. Area hospitals are treating the injured; none in life-threatening condition.
2016-04-3

Demonstrations continue for a third day in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Miami, and Washington, D.C. where protesters perform "die-ins" over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
2014-12-6

Pakistan arrests a suspect with connections to a Pakistani group who said he acted as an accomplice to the man accused of trying to bomb Times Square in New York.
2010-05-14