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Today was the big parade on 5th Avenue - Representatives of the parties were at the events of the Hellenism of New York for the anniversary of the National Regency

NEW YORK - Rabbi Aliza Erber, 80, stood at the edge of a pier in lower Manhattan and told those around her to draw closer - and to look out toward the Brooklyn Bridge.

A few seconds later, there it was: a portrait of her face projected onto the bridge, against the backdrop of the Brooklyn skyline, along with her own words. "It was not okay then, it's not okay now."

Actor Alec Baldwin announced on June 27 he will chat live on Instagram with disgraced comedian and movie director Woody Allen.

"I have zero interest in anyone's judgments and sanctimonious posts here," said Baldwin, himself at the center of a scandal after a cinematographer was shot dead last year on a film set by a gun Baldwin was holding.

Police have closed the street in front of the Türkevi Center in Manhattan to all traffic after a suspicious package was discovered in front of the building on Oct. 22.

Bomb disposal teams were sent to the scene along First Avenue between 45th and 46th streets. The package with red roses was found in front of the Türkevi Center building.

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The shutdown on Broadway has been extended again — until at least early September.

Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Sept. 6.

New York's celebrated Broadway theaters have been shuttered since March 12 and may well not reopen before September. The very real fear is that with no public funding to help them weather the crisis, some shows may never reopen.     

A helicopter crash-landed on top of a high-rise in midtown Manhattan on June 10, starting a fire and leaving one person dead as the entire building shook from the impact.

The management of Diamond S Shipping celebrated the compamy's listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) by ringing the opening bell at the start of trading on 5 April, 2019.

Google's parent company Alphabet on Monday said it was investing more than $1 billion to set up a new campus in New York City, reports AFP. 

In a blog post, Alphabet and Google CFO Ruth Porat said it would lease large office buildings in Manhattan's West Village neighbourhood which will become the centerpiece of a campus of more than 1.7 million square-feet (160,000 square metres).

The Statue of Liberty's original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it in the 1980s, was moved across Liberty Island on Thursday to its new home in a museum that will open next year, according to kfdm.com