Sources: BBC
Civil unrest and rioting occur in Manhattan, New York City, United States, after Twitch streamer and YouTuber Kai Cenat announces a gift card and PlayStation 5 video game console giveaway in Union Square. 2023-08-4
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that the city will end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses on November 1. 2022-09-20
At a hearing in New York City, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two associates of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who aided him with a search in Ukraine for detrimental information on President Trump's political opponents, plead not guilty to charges that they funneled $350,000 in illegal donations to a pro-Trump political committee and another $20,000 to former Republican Congressman Pete Sessions while acting on behalf of at least one Ukrainian government official. 2019-10-23
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
The cold snap continues in the northeastern United States with record lows forecast in major cities like New York City and Philadelphia. 2016-02-14
The flag of the State of Palestine is raised above the grounds of the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the first time. 2015-09-30
His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan, the immediate past Archbishop-Emeritus of New York, dies in New York City at the age of 82. 2015-03-5
Musicians and entertainers including the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen perform a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 2012-12-12
Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is denied parole by the New York State Division of Parole in the U.S.. 2010-09-7
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchange criticism of each other’s countries nuclear policies at the opening of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 2010-05-3