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Experts: NYC sea barrier could have stopped surge
The vast destruction wreaked by the storm surge in New York could have been prevented with a sea barrier of the type that protects major cities in ...
Storm spins death and 'a lot of tears' along path
Death blew in on the superstorm's wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking ...
A slowed, darkened NYC begins to stir to life
Two days after superstorm Sandy brought New York to a standstill, residents itching to get back to work and their old lives noticed small signs that ...
In darkened NYC, safety of concerns
Faced with the prospect of days without power and swaths of the city plunged into darkness at night, police brought in banks of lights and boosted ...
A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city
Stripped of its bustle and mostly cut off from the world, New York was left wondering Tuesday when its particular way of life — carried by subway, lit ...
Crippled NYC subways could hamper storm recovery
The floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural ...
Tiny NYC beachfront burns in floodwaters
A tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner ...
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation's largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running ...
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's ...
Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness
Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and ...
Hurricane Sandy grounds air travel in Northeast
Hurricane Sandy brought air travel to a halt in the Northeast Monday, grounding thousands of flights and upending travel plans across the globe.
NYC officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot
A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up ...
2nd arrest in case linked to NY policeman's death
A man was arrested on charges he assisted a suspect in the shooting deaths of a New York police officer and a carjacking victim, prosecutors said ...
NHL's Islanders moving to Brooklyn in 2015
Mike Bossy's fondest memories of the New York Islanders will always have Nassau Coliseum as the cherished backdrop, no matter where the team calls ...
NY cop killing suspect transferred from hospital
An ex-convict suspected of gunning down a police officer near the Belmont Park racetrack and then shooting to death a carjacking victim was ...
Brooklyn ice: NHL's Islanders to Barclays in 2015
The New York Islanders finally have a new home and it's in Brooklyn, the borough that is suddenly a hot bed of pro sports 54 years after baseball's ...
Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims
A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived ...
Waldorf Astoria collects stolen hotel property
Three small, silver spoons elegantly engraved with the words "Waldorf Astoria" have come full circle: Stolen eight decades ago by an employee of the ...
Man held in NYC plot to blow up Federal Reserve
A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake ...
Djokovic, Murray meet in Monday final at US Open
Born only a week apart and brought up as tennis prodigies who later turned into stars, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have been crisscrossing the ...
Jones gets farewell from Mets fans, Braves win
Mets fans cheered the loudest for Chipper Jones once he was out of their ballpark for good. When he took the lineup card to home plate before his last ...
Images, not frequency, make NYC twisters notable
Most people wouldn't say New York and tornado in the same breath. But two twisters that touched down in the nation's biggest city on Saturday are the ...
NYC cleans up from 2 twisters after Eastern storms
Damaging storms that spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England ...
A look at tornadoes that have hit major cities
Two tornadoes touched down at the edge of New York City on Saturday. No serious injuries were reported. Once exceedingly rare in New York, tornadoes ...