New York

A mobster was shot to death in the Bronx, while waiting for a coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru. It was the latest of attempts to either rough up or kill Sylvester Zottola, a mobster with links to the Bonanno crime family, the New York Post reported. In September 2017, Zottola was clubbed over the head […]

Seventeen commuters were trapped in a subway station elevator in Brookyn, New York, for about an hour before first responders arrived to help them climb out. Talia Kovacs told the New York Post that after the button to call for help was pushed, the group was not told how long help would take to arrive. […]

NEW YORK—Marcus Soutra vividly remembers reading the popular adventure novel “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson with his father when he was 8 years old—and continuously getting stuck on the same word. His teachers began to notice something too; he was identified as dyslexic and diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when he was in the […]

NEW YORK—A crowd of Falun Dafa practitioners from across the greater New York area gathered outside the headquarters of the United Nations on Sept. 25, to seek an end to the barbaric persecution of adherents taking place in China. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commencing an unprecedented campaign […]

NEW YORK—How could it be possible to convey the poetry, the depth, the sweat, the soulful interpretation of life in the watercolor paintings by Mario Andres Robinson? The essence they emanate can only be fully appreciated in person, because they are the results of countless moments transformed into multiple thin layers of paint. The washes and glazes he applies to render a beautiful luminosity is a testament to the love of the people and places he has immortalized on paper made of cotton rag and linters.

Four men who were sexually abused as children by a former religious teacher at a Roman Catholic church reached a $27.5 million settlement with the Diocese of Brooklyn, the latest update in a wide-reaching scandal that has shaken houses of prayer across the nation. The deal reached on Sept. 18 is broadly believed to be one […]

Naima Green's photo series "Jewels from the Hinterland," challenges how black and brown people are viewed in dense urban cities like New York.

A survivor of 9/11 describes her descent and escape from Tower One, and the collapse of the twin towers. Wendy Lanski describes herself as a wife, daughter, friend, a senior manager, a music lover and, after 9/11, she can, unfortunately, add terrorism survivor to the labels that identify her. Humanity: I know its hard, but can you […]

Elinda Kiss was sitting at a breakfast meeting in the Ball Room of World Trade Center 3 when the first plane struck. She was a newly elected board member of NABE (National Association for Business Economics.) She and the others heard a loud “boom” and saw the chandelier shake. The person sitting next to her remarked, […]

Stephen Carlile is an actor most famous for portraying Scar in various stage productions of “The Lion King,” but acting isn’t his only passion. Carlile has always loved dogs even though, for most of his life, he wasn’t allowed to have one. “My parents all said, ‘You can’t have a dog, you’re an actor!’” he […]

It’s a museum where seeing is not the same as believing. The Museum of Illusions is set to open in New York City. Filled with confusing mirrors, mind-bending geometric patterns, and trippy colors and light, each optical illusion challenges your brain to reconcile what is seen by your eyes. The museum is part science and […]

A six-alarm fire tore through a parking garage in Brooklyn’s Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Sept. 17, according to reports. A number of vehicles were burned, and more than a dozen people were injured, NBC New York reported. AmNY later reported that 17 people, including 15 firefighters, were injured. A call about the fire came […]

For Bill McGinly from Virginia, 7 and 11 are poignant numbers. “Seventeen years ago [last] Friday, I was here in town on business, and Mark and I had lunch together,” he said referring to his son who was living in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Then I gave him a hug, I got in the cab, […]

NEW YORK—The Table of Silence Project, is a multi-cultural prayer and dance ceremony for peace commemorating those affected by the devastating terror attack of Sept. 11, 2001. This was the eighth year the performance held at Lincoln Center on the anniversary of 9/11. Among the participants of the tribute, Richard Daniels, a dancer, explained the […]

NEW YORK—Vatchpol Srinuan has been attending the Ground Zero memorial service almost every year for the past 17 years to honor his younger sister, Saranya or “Suzie.” Born and raised in New York, his sister was 23-years-old when she perished in the North Tower. She was working on the 103rd floor at Cantor Fitzgerald, and […]

NEW YORK—Rachel Donelson from Charleston, South Carolina visited Ground Zero for the first time on the seventeenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The 33-year-old mother of two says she remembers the attacks like it was yesterday. “When it happened, I was in school,” she said. “They just dismissed us, no one knew why.” Returning […]

NEW YORK—Retired New York police officer Kieran Breen is still full of emotion when he talks about the tragedy of 9/11—the deadliest attack on American soil since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in World War II. Nearly 3,000 people died when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. […]

NEW YORK—Firefighter Kevin Kelly was rushing to the North Tower just before it started to tumble. His chief had not realized the South Tower had already collapsed. “We dropped everything we had [and] took off,” Kelly said. “First I got behind a car and somebody running behind me said, ‘Brother, you better run further than […]

The subway station that was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has reopened for the first time since the attacks. The World Trade Center (WTC) Cortlandt reopened on Saturday, Sept. 8. The old station was buried under rubble from the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. “The opening of WTC Cortlandt […]

A big part of American history is on a small island off the shore of New York City. The Statue of Liberty Museum shows Lady Liberty’s history from a different view. The 26,000-square foot museum is scheduled to open in May 2019. According to the Liberty Ellis Foundation website, approximately 4 million people visit Liberty […]