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NYC’s One World Trade Center gets its shiny, silver topping: spire installation completes symbolic height of 1,776 feet
The silver spire topping One World Trade Center has been fully installed on the building’s roof, bringing the iconic structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.
The spire’s installation was completed Friday morning, after pieces of it had been transported to the roof of the building last week. Construction workers below applauded the milestone.
The 1,776 feet is symbolic of the year 1776, when the U.S. declared its independence. (Julio Cortez / AP Photo)
Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner could have second political life in bid for New York Mayor
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned over a sexting scandal in 2011, says he’s weighing a run for New York City mayor this year.
The Democrat told The New York Times Magazine in a story posted online Wednesday that “it’s now or maybe never for me” but acknowledged that it’s a long shot because some people “just don’t have room for a second narrative about me.”
Weiner said that his political committee spent more than $100,000 on polling and research by Obama’s longtime pollster, David Binder, but said he doesn’t know when he’ll decide on entering the race.
“It won’t be something as pedestrian as `Do I think I’ll win?’” he said. “It will be something more like `Does it feel like I should be involved in this debate? Someone should be out there saying A, B or C.’”
‘We cast terror into the hearts of unbelievers:’ Extreme anti-Islam posters to cover New York subway stations next week
Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17.
The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
While previous posters, which read “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man,” were vandalized within an hour when they were put up in September, Geller told the New York Observer that she’s now prepared. Geller has made twice as many posters.
“I refuse to abridge my free speech so as to appease savages,” she said.
‘Doomed:’ New York Post faces storm of backlash over cover photo of man about to be killed by subway train
The New York Post is under fire today for publishing a front page photograph of a man seconds away from being crushed to death by an oncoming subway train, also prompting questions about why the tabloid’s photographer did not help the man.
Ki Suk Han, 58, was killed shortly after being pushed on to the subways tracks after a short skirmish with another man, who according to bystanders, was panhandling and cursing at subway riders.
New York Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi happened to be on the platform as the incident occurred and began shooting pictures, saying he was hoping the subway operator would be warned by his flash going off.
‘Secret Santa’ storms through Sandy-battered New York handing $100 bills to strangers
A wealthy Missouri man posing as “Secret Santa” stunned New Yorkers, handing $100 bills to many in Staten Island who had lost everything to Superstorm Sandy.
The Kansas City businessman is giving away $100,000 this holiday season, and spent the day in New Jersey and New York giving away thousands. But he says money is not the issue.
“The money is not the point at all,” said the anonymous benefactor on Thursday as he walked up to surprised Staten Island residents and thrust crisp bills into their hands. “It’s about the random acts of kindness. I’m just setting an example, and if 10 per cent of the people who see me emulate what I’m doing, anybody can be a Secret Santa!” (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC brings festive mood to areas smashed by Superstorm Sandy
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off in New York on Thursday, putting a festive mood in the air in a city still coping with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
The American harvest holiday came as portions of the Northeast still were reeling from Sandy’s havoc, and volunteers planned to serve thousands of turkey dinners to people it left homeless or struggling. (Reuters)
For only $100K a month, rent an 8,000-square-foot apartment in Manhattan. Take a tour of the most outrageously expensive apartments for rent in New York
Living in New York City can be ridiculously expensive. While the average New York apartment goes for $3,400 a month, there are some penthouses and townhouses asking staggering amounts rents equal to some New Yorkers’ annual salaries, if not more.
We rounded up the most expensive luxury real estate rentals we could find in Manhattan. (Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate; Sotheby’s Realty)
Gas rationing in effect in storm-ravaged New York as hundreds of thousands suffer without power
A new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day went into effect in New York Friday morning as a nor’easter that knocked out power anew to hundreds of thousands of customers erased some of the progress made by utility crews.
Police were at gas stations to enforce the new system in New York City and on Long Island. Drivers were out before dawn to line up for their rations.
“This is designed to let everybody have a fair chance, so the lines aren’t too oppressive and that we can get through this,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Anger and violence breaks out at gas stations as fuel shortages hit Sandy recovery
Superstorm Sandy damaged ports that accept fuel tankers and flooded underground equipment that sends fuel through pipelines. Without power, fuel terminals can’t pump gasoline onto tanker trucks, and gas stations can’t pump fuel into customers’ cars.
The Port of New York and New Jersey was slowly starting to accept tankers, but some cargo was being diverted to the Port of Virginia. Federal requirements for low-smog gasoline have been lifted, and fuel trucks are on their way to the area. (Photos: AP Photo; Reuters; AFP/Getty Images)
Political cartoonist Gary Clement on New Yorkers toughing it out through Superstorm Sandy. More coverage
Sandy’s wrath: N.J. flooded, 50 N.Y. houses burn, millions powerless, blizzard strikes
Millions of people in the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to flooded homes, fallen trees and widespread power outages caused by the giant storm Sandy, which swamped New York City’s subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan’s financial district.
• 50 houses burn to ground in NYC neighbourhood
• Three New Jersey towns flood when natural levee broken
• Blizzard hits West Virginia
• NYC’s subways face ‘worst disaster’ in 108 year history
At least 15 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the country, which dropped just below hurricane status before making landfall on Monday night in New Jersey. (Photos: AP Photo; Getty; Reuters)
Hurricane Sandy morphs into winter cyclone as massive storm’s reach spreads
The storm called Sandy messily morphed from hurricane into hybrid storm, losing the hurricane part of its name, but not the weather mayhem surrounding it.
The National Hurricane Center officially pronounced the storm a “post-tropical” cyclone Monday evening, as the centre of Sandy perched 32 miles south of Atlantic City, knocking at the coast’s door. The change is part of a transition into a more diffuse storm that is bigger and sloppier, even as its force weakened.
Sandy continues to merge with what was once two cold weather systems already dumping snow in West Virginia, forming what the hurricane centre calls post-tropical and others call Frankenstorm or Perfect Storm 2. Whatever name it visits as, it isn’t leaving the Eastern U.S. anytime soon.
(Top) A flooded street in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is seen at nightfall on October 29, 2012. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
(Bottom) Rising water, caused by Hurricane Sandy, rushes into a subterranian parking garage on October 29, 2012, in the Financial District of New York. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
World Trade Center’s spire being held for ‘ransom’ in Quebec company’s backyard
The 137-metre-long spire intended to crown the skyscraper replacing the World Trade Center on Manhattan’s skyline sits in the yard of a Quebec company which, a lawsuit claims, is holding the pinnacle for “ransom” and jeopardizing the completion of the tallest building in the Western hemisphere.
“I know I’m not making friends right now but at the end of the day, money is money and business is business,” said Jean Paschini, chairman and chief executive officer of ADF Group Inc. of Terrebonne, Que.
“I’m not holding it hostage, it’s here in my backyard,” he said. He then added: “Pay me and then you get your antenna… Let’s resolve everything, then you get your nice antenna so you can put it up.”
Andy Murray and the U.S. Open trophy took a tour of New York on Tuesday. Here is a brief account of his journey.
From clockwise:
- Andy and the trophy enjoy a laugh at the NBC Today Show
- Andy and the trophy share a romantic glass of wine at the British Consulate
- Andy and the trophy enjoy an intimate moment in the park with 200 of their closest photographer friends
- “Could you BE more excited by your U.S. Open victory?”
- The wire service says this is Andy and “his girlfriend Kim” but her Starbucks cup says “Julie” … And where is the trophy?
With a sense of moving on, 11th anniversary ceremony of Sept. 11 attacks begins at ground zero
Americans paused again Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks with familiar ceremony, but also a sense that it’s time to move forward after a decade of remembrance. (Photos: AP; Getty Images; Reuters)
