Tag: Manhattan
US lawyers ask 2nd Circuit to nix Trump from defamation suit
NEW YORK (AP) — Justice Department lawyers asked a federal appeals court Friday to replace President Donald Trump with the United States as the...
NY prosecutors interview Michael Cohen about Trump finances
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors conducted an hourslong interview Thursday of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, asking a range...
Appeals court OKs convictions in college basketball scandal
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a...
NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol insurrection
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mayor...
Gothams give virtual start to Oscar season, ‘Nomadland’ wins
NEW YORK (AP) — Streaming from an empty banquet hall and with acceptance speeches made from living rooms, the 30th Gotham Awards gave a...
Saving some favorite NYC places through online campaigns
NEW YORK (AP) — The boarded up windows and For Rent signs are all over the place in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, where restaurants...
Woman in widely seen hotel confrontation charged in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — A 22-year-old California woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him at a New...
Opera and theater’s Prototype Festival pushed mostly online
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s top festivals of contemporary opera and theater has shifted format because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Woman who wrongly accused Black teen is arrested, apologizes
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him while being filmed at a...
Deutsche Bank to pay $130 million to avoid bribery charge
NEW YORK (AP) — Deutsche Bank agreed Friday to pay fines and penalties of about $130 million to avoid a criminal prosecution on charges...
Woman who confronted Black teen arrested in California
NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman seen on video tackling a Black teenager whom she falsely accused of stealing her phone at a...
Russian hacker gets 12 years in massive data theft scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — A prolific Russian hacker who stole data from over a dozen U.S. companies and information about over 100 million U.S....
Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year
NEW YORK (AP) — Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year's Eve, replaced by empty streets and...
Judge: $28.5M bail package for Epstein ex not a close call
NEW YORK (AP) — A $28.5 bail package proposed by lawyers for the late Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend only strengthened the reasoning for keeping her...
After a year like this, expect a strange New Year’s Eve
NEW YORK (AP) — If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it.
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Joe and Jill Biden to appear on ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest will have a special pair of guests alongside the music stars at this year's New Year's Eve celebration...
Judge rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s bail bid
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge rejected a $28.5 million proposed bail package for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Monday, saying her incarceration is necessary...
Workers install 192 crystals on Times Square New Year’s ball
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball Sunday in preparation for a pandemic-limited...
Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war
NEW YORK (AP) — The Girl Scouts are in a “highly damaging” recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core...
Lawyers seek relief for ‘broken’ convicted philanthropist
NEW YORK (AP) — Once worth nearly a billion dollars, opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar is seeking financial relief from what his lawyers describe as...
Coronavirus dampens Christmas joy in Bethlehem and elsewhere
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem on Thursday ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of...
Christmas unites community after fire guts historic church
NEW YORK (AP) — At Christmases past, parishioners at Middle Collegiate in New York City rejoiced over gospel hymns, carols and soul tunes played...
Court extends tenure of top federal prosecutor in Manhattan
NEW YORK (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan will remain in her role until President-elect Joe Biden decides whether to replace her...
Christmas treat: Overnight at FAO Schwarz for one NYC family
NEW YORK (AP) — It's like getting a peek at Santa's workshop.
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‘Unbelievable’ snowfall blankets parts of the Northeast
GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet (1...
NYC cathedral gunman’s note says he planned to take hostages
NEW YORK (AP) — The man killed by police Sunday after he opened fire on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral...
From restaurants to retailers, virus transformed economies
NEW YORK (AP) — It would be just a temporary precaution.
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Fashion mogul Peter Nygard arrested in Canada on sex charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on charges alleging he sexually abused women and girls after luring them into...
Gloria Gaynor to perform at Times Square New Year’s Eve
NEW YORK (AP) — The New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be a celebration of perseverance, honoring essential workers and featuring Gloria...
More US churches are committing to racism-linked reparations
NEW YORK (AP) — The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder. An Episcopal church in New...
Driver arrested after car plows into Manhattan protesters
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who plowed her car into protesters Friday in New York City, injuring six of them, has been arrested...
Fears and tension mount for commuters still heading to work
NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, the fears creep in as Aura Morales rides the bus to her job at CVS in Los...
Fans, Ono, bandmates mark 40 years since John Lennon’s death
NEW YORK (AP) — Fans remembered John Lennon with flowers, candles and songs Tuesday, the 40th anniversary of the former Beatle's death after being...
Lawrence Byrne, NYPD’s policy-shaping legal czar, dies at 61
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawrence Byrne, the New York Police Department’s top lawyer during a fraught period that followed a court ban on officers...
NYC man charged with harboring fugitive in trooper shooting
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Predawn fire guts old church housing New York’s Liberty Bell
NEW YORK (AP) — A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York's Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city's earliest...
Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows
NEW YORK (AP) — There's theater on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights.
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Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention
NEW YORK (AP) — The annual publishing convention and trade show known as BookExpo, a decades-old tradition where guest speakers have ranged from Bill...
Ousted US prosecutor Berman hired by white-shoe NY law firm
NEW YORK (AP) — Geoffrey S. Berman, the ousted federal prosecutor in Manhattan who led several investigations into President Donald Trump's allies, has been...
Virus keeps Black Friday crowds thin, shoppers shift online
NEW YORK (AP) — The raging coronavirus pandemic kept crowds thin at malls and stores across the country on Black Friday, but a surge...
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes flight in virus times
NEW YORK (AP) — The balloons were in the sky and the marching bands took to the streets for the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day...
Rocky the Christmas tree stowaway owl returns to the wild
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild.
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Stephen Bannon switching lawyers in border wall fund case
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent Washington lawyer defending President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist against charges that he cheated donors to a southern...
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to march on despite pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he's been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again...
Manhattan DA appeals Manafort dismissal to NY’s high court
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City prosecutors are seeking to have the state’s highest court revive state mortgage fraud charges against President Donald...
New York City’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93
NEW YORK (AP) — Few American leaders have faced the battery of urban ills that confronted David Dinkins when he became New York City's...
Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working-class writers
LONDON (AP) — Fittingly in this year of work-from-home and lockdowns, Douglas Stuart’s life-changing moment came to him on his sofa.
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Tourists few, NY gift shops struggle but don’t lose (heart)
NEW YORK (AP) — In souvenir shops from Times Square to the World Trade Center, shelves full of T-shirts and trinkets still (heart) New...
Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out...
Owl found in Rockefeller Center tree could take flight soon
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — A tiny owl that was found dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is eating...
Criminal probe, legal fights await Trump after White House
A few miles south of the namesake tower where Donald Trump began his run for president, New York prosecutors are grinding away at an...
NY probes Trump consulting payments that reduced his taxes
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general has sent a subpoena to the Trump Organization for records related to consulting fees paid to...
Hoot, hoot, hoot! Owl in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't quite a partridge in a pear tree, but a worker helping set up the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree...
New York City schools to close again as virus rate rises
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio...
Weinstein accusers endorse Manhattan DA candidate Lucy Lang
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of women who say they were victimized by Harvey Weinstein, including one who testified at his trial, have...
Beloved arts facility Poets House suspends operations
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country's leading literary community and educational centers, Poets House, is suspending operations because of “challenges presented” by...
Suspect arrested in attack on actor Rick Moranis
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man was arrested Saturday in connection with an unprovoked assault against Rick Moranis that occurred as the...
75-foot spruce to be NYC’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
ONEONTA, N.Y. (AP) — The 75-foot (23-meter) Norway spruce that will anchor New York City's holiday festivities as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was...
75-foot spruce to be NYC’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
ONEONTA, N.Y. (AP) — The 75-foot (23-meter) Norway spruce that will anchor New York City's holiday festivities as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was...
Veterans Day in 2020: quiet parades, somber virtual events
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Celebrations marking Veterans Day gave way to somber virtual gatherings Wednesday, with many of the nation’s veterans homes barring visitors...
NYC woman gets ill swan to clinic via foot, car and subway
NEW YORK (AP) — Ariel Cordova-Rojas went to New York's Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last week to celebrate her 30th birthday.
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No. 14 Oklahoma State holds off Kansas State, 20-18
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Oklahoma State was missing so many offensive players to injuries this week that coach Mike Gundy joked he took most...
In NYC, marking 50th anniversary of Pride, no matter what
NEW YORK (AP) — There were protests, rainbow flags and performances — it was LGBTQ Pride, after all.
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Faith groups pray, sing in post-vote ritual in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths prayed and sang together in post-election solidarity Wednesday afternoon in New...
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine’s kidnapper is sentenced to 24 years
NEW YORK (AP) — A man convicted in the kidnapping of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced to 24 years in prison Wednesday by a...
Weinstein accuser who testified at his trial sues him
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who testified against disgraced and imprisoned Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein filed a lawsuit against him on Friday to...
Arrest made in 2008 kidnapping of journalists in Afghanistan
NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a...
Change of plea scheduled in Rudy Giuliani-related case
NEW YORK (AP) — A change-of-plea hearing is set for Thursday for a man charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani, one of...
Daniel Menaker, award-winning author and editor, dead at 79
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Menaker, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House...
Judge: US can’t replace Trump in accuser’s defamation suit
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he...
Dancing through quarantine and Harlem — in a bubble
NEW YORK (AP) — Living and breathing dance is par for the course at the Dance Theater of Harlem. It's just never looked like...
Court won’t revive state fraud charges against Manafort
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York court on Thursday upheld a decision dismissing state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort on double jeopardy...
Santa Claus won’t be coming to Macy’s this year
NEW YORK (AP) — Macy's said Santa Claus won't be greeting kids at its flagship New York store this year due to the coronavirus,...
Wanna go for a walk? Westminster dog show leaves NYC for ’21
NEW YORK (AP) — The Westminster dog show is set to take a long walk.
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Trump rape accuser ‘stunned’ at DOJ no-show at court hearing
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s said she was stunned and speechless...
Judge OKs release of Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts
NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of interviews lawyers conducted with the ex-girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein must be released by...
‘Big pile’ of eels dumped in NYC park; impact not yet known
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Orkin was taking a break from his evening jog to sit by Prospect Park Lake when he turned around...
Ethan Hawke tapes audio edition of acclaimed novel ‘Gilead’
NEW YORK (AP) — When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel “Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson's...
CBS News rebuilds MTV’s old ‘TRL’ studio for election night
NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out for Britney Spears and the Jonas Bros.: CBS News is building a new high-tech election night set in...
White woman charged in racist NYC run-in made a 2nd 911 call
NEW YORK (AP) — Amy Cooper, the white woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a dispute with a...
Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt tax record turnover
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to put on hold an appeals court ruling that Trump's accountant must...
Appeals court: Trump must turn over taxes to prosecutor
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor, an appeals court ruled...
Prosecutors seek secrecy as Jeffrey Epstein probe continues
NEW YORK (AP) — An investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls and women remains active, leading prosecutors Tuesday to try to...
Ump who sued MLB to call Dodgers-Padres NL Division Series
NEW YORK (AP) — Angel Hernández, who has sued Major League Baseball alleging racial discrimination, will umpire the NL Division Series between the Los...
Actor Rick Moranis sucker punched while walking in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Rick Moranis was sucker punched by an unknown assailant while walking Thursday on a sidewalk near New York's Central...
‘Boys in the Band’ movie keeps hurtful language of original
NEW YORK (AP) — Revisiting Mart Crowley’s seminal 1968 play, “The Boys in the Band,” in a new movie adaptation on Netflix privies viewers...
APNewsBreak: Informant in top Venezuela case lied to feds
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A key informant against one of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s closest aides has been accused of lying to his law...
Appeals court hears fight over Trump tax returns — again
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court tested the waters on a potential compromise, but didn't immediately rule Friday after arguments in President...
Trump lawyers: DA’s fight for tax returns built on innuendo
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor engaged in a long-running battle to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns is resorting to “speculation and...
Innocent Madoff investors must pay back profits, court rules
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors who profited from Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme even though they knew nothing of it must still pay back...
Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale
WASHINGTON (AP) — They were two men in Manhattan who craved the same thing: validation. One was a brash, young real estate developer looking...
New Year’s Eve in Times Square incorporates virtual elements
NEW YORK (AP) — New Year's Eve in Times Square will incorporate virtual elements, organizers said Wednesday as they gear up for a celebration...
Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale
WASHINGTON (AP) — They were two men in Manhattan who craved the same thing: validation. One was a brash, young real estate developer looking...
Lennon’s killer says he sought glory, deserved death penalty
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who killed John Lennon in 1980 says he was seeking glory and deserved the death penalty for a...
Judge: Postal Service must process election mail on time
NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in a week, a federal judge said a nationwide order is necessary to ensure mail for...
Bones to pick, for $8M: Stan the T rex goes up for auction
NEW YORK (AP) — He weighed at least 7 tons and had eyes the size of baseballs. His bite could have crushed a car....
Florence Howe, co-founder of Feminist Press, dead at 91
NEW YORK (AP) — Florence Howe, an activist, educator and major contributor to American literature and culture who as co-founder of the Feminist Press...
Gabriela Hearst, Kerby Jean-Raymond win top fashion awards
NEW YORK (AP) — The Council of Fashion Designers of America gave its top fashion awards on Monday to Gabriela Hearst for womenswear and...
Macy’s plans smaller but camera-ready Thanksgiving parade
NEW YORK (AP) — A Macy's Thanksgiving parade reimagined for the coronavirus pandemic will feature floats, performers and giant balloons along a one-block stretch...
US remembers 9/11, with virus altering familiar tributes
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as another national crisis, the coronavirus, reconfigured ceremonies and as a presidential campaign carved a...
