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American college students plan demonstrations in solidarity with pro-Palestinian Columbia University protesters arrested in New York City earlier this week.
2024-04-20

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that a complete shutdown of the 14th Street Tunnel in New York City, proposed to allow for subway repairs caused by damage from Hurricane Sandy, has been halted. Cuomo says that engineers will use a new technology from Europe to make critical repairs to the tunnel without having to close it entirely. The complete shutdown would have closed the tunnel, which is used by nearly 225,000 people each weekday, for an expected 15 months.
2019-01-3

Westfield World Trade Center opens on schedule, part of the World Trade Center Ground Zero redevelopment in New York City.
2016-08-16

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is running for Secretary-General of the United Nations, to succeed Ban Ki-moon whose second term expires at the end of this year. Clark, who is the first non-European and fourth woman among the eight announced candidates, was prime minister for nine years (1999–2008) and has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme since April 2009. The United Nations Trusteeship Council will begin preliminary meetings with candidates next week in New York City.
2016-04-4

Sony cancels the New York City sneak preview of the upcoming 2014 film "The Interview", originally scheduled for December 18, due to threatening messages by hackers.
2014-12-17

An agreement is reached allowing the completion of the US National September 11 Memorial & Museum on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2012-09-10

In the United States, the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from New York to other major cities.
2011-10-7

The Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg orders the mandatory evacuation of some low-lying parts of the city, and the shutdown of the subway.
2011-08-26

The United States Census Bureau confirms that New York City is the largest city in the US with 8,175,133 residents at the time of the 2010 United States Census on April 1.
2011-03-24

Mark Madoff, the 46-year-old son of convicted American fraudster Bernard Madoff is located hanging dead at an apartment in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
2010-12-11