Crews install spire atop One World Trade Center in New York City
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Construction workers bolted a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, symbolically capping New York's comeback after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.The spire brings the iconic building to a height of 1,776 feet -- an allusion to the year the United States declared its independence.The pieces to be installed Friday morning were hoisted to a temporary platform atop the building last week.The spire contains 18 steel sections and three communication rings.
New York officials to seek human remains at 9/11 plane part site
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City officials on Monday were preparing the site where a part believed to be from one of the 9/11 airliners was found so that they can begin the search for human remains, according to the New York Police Department.Staff from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will start sifting through soil for human remains on Tuesday, police said.A Boeing Company technician confirmed that the piece, discovered Wednesday, is a support structure from a trailing edge flap found on the wing of a Boeing 767 like the ones that were flown into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.It could not be determined from which of the two planes the part came, police said Monday.
1 World Trade Center to become tallest building in hemisphere
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Construction crews at the 16-acre World Trade Center site will raise the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One World Trade Center on Monday morning, making the building the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the site's management.
New York lawmakers considering raising age to purchase cigarettes
NEW YORK (WITI) -- New York lawmakers are considering whether to raise the age of when someone can legally smoke.A proposal would increase the minimum age on tobacco purchases from 18 to 21.The idea was presented Monday, April 22nd by the New York City Council Speaker along with the city's Health Commissioner.Recently, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed stores keeping cigarettes out of public sight, to avoid children seeing the products.New York has a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and other indoor establishments.
Port Washington H.S. singing group headed for New York City
PORT WASHINGTON (WITI) -- A group of Port Washington High School students are headed for New York!The students are taking part in a national a cappella singing competition.The group "Limited Edition" is made up of 14 Port Washington High School students.
NYC to sift new WTC material for human remains
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City will begin sifting April 1 through 590 cubic yards of material from the World Trade Center site in search of human remains, the city announced Friday.The city expanded its search for human remains at the site in October 2006, when potential human remains were found in manhole on the site, the city said in a release.
What caused mystery circles on frozen New York pond?
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The appearance of mysterious giant circles on an ice-covered pond has some upstate New York residents wondering if they've been visited by beings from another realm.During an unseasonable spring snow storm last Friday, Peggy Gervase of Eden was stunned to see the strange pattern that had formed on the pond she built 10 years ago behind her home.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg hasn't given up on assault weapons ban
(CNN) -- A national ban on assault weapons may have met all-but-certain death in the Senate this week, but one of the measure's proponents - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg - said Sunday his fight wasn't over."I don't think there's ever been an issue where the public has spoken so clearly, where Congress hasn't eventually understood and done the right thing," Bloomberg said on NBC's "Meet the Press."Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid left off the ban on assault weapons when he introduced gun control legislation in the upper chamber.
Statue of Liberty to reopen by July Fourth
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Statue of Liberty is expected to reopen by July Fourth, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Tuesday.The iconic landmark has been closed since October 29 due to infrastructure damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.Funding for repairs is part of $28 million allocated by the Department of Transportation to repair federal parks and recreation areas damaged by the storm in New York and New Jersey, according to a joint press release from Salazar and Sen.
New York woman holding baby falls from 8th floor to her death
(CNN) -- A woman plunged to her death from the eighth floor of an apartment building in New York, with her baby clutched in her arms.The 10-month-old boy miraculously survived and was in critical but stable condition at a Harlem hospital Thursday, police said.A New York police spokesman confirmed that the woman left behind a suicide note.Bystanders were shocked when they saw the 45-year-old mother fall Wednesday afternoon."I wish I never witnessed that," Steven Dominguez told CNN affiliate WPIX. "It's disturbing, and horrible.
New York shooting suspect dead, but questions linger
(CNN) -- An FBI tactical team forced its way into the abandoned, debris-strewn shell of the Glory Days tavern in Herkimer, New York, early Thursday and killed the man who police say fatally shot four people a day earlier.An FBI dog died, but no officers were wounded in the firefight that left Kurt R.
Four killed in upstate New York shooting, police say
(CNN) -- Authorities are looking for a man suspected of killing four people and wounding at least two others in Herkimer County in upstate New York, state police said Wednesday.The suspect, identified by state police as Kurt Meyers, also is believed to have blown up his house in the area, located about 70 miles west-northwest of Albany, according to a federal law enforcement source briefed on the investigation.The shootings were reported Wednesday morning in the neighboring communities of Herkimer and Mohawk, CNN affiliate WKTV reported.The incidents prompted officials to put schools on lockdown in Herkimer and Mohawk, as well in as the nearby municipalities of Ilion, Frankfort, Little Falls, Richfield Springs, Dolgeville, West Winfield, Bridgewater and Newport, said Mark Vivacqua, the Herkimer school superintendent."Everything is calm" within the schools, Vivacqua said.Little Falls Hospital, located in the vicinity of the shootings,also was lockdown Wednesday afternoon, a hospital representative said.Monitor FOX6 News and FOX6Now.com for updates on this developing story.
Judge halts New York City ban on large sugary drinks
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- New York City's planned ban on the sale of large sugary drinks won't go into effect Tuesday after a state judge blocked the restrictions, calling them "arbitrary and capricious.""The court finds that the regulation ...
Police search for man in connection with crash that killed parents, baby
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York police are searching for a man in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed two expectant parents and caused the death of their newborn baby.Police identified the man as Julio Acevedo, 44, and released a photo of him on Monday.
Expectant parents killed in car crash on way to hospital, baby survives
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A midnight car crash in New York killed two expectant parents who were heading to the hospital.
New York's brash former mayor, Ed Koch, dies at 88
(CNN) -- Ed Koch, the brash former New York City mayor who typically greeted constituents with a "How'm I doin'?" died Friday at the age of 88, his spokesman said.
N.Y. governor signs nation's first gun-control bill since Newtown
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Gov.
Ferry's skipper says thrust controls failed before crash
(CNN) -- As an experienced ferry boat captain steered his vessel across the Hudson River toward a Lower Manhattan pier, two diesel engines shut off while he frantically tried to avoid a crash, federal investigators said Thursday.
At least 57 injured, two critically, in New York City ferry crash
NEW YORK (CNN) -- As an 8 a.m. ferry made its final maneuvers across the Hudson River, Elizabeth Banta watched in horror as dozens of her fellow commuters were tossed like rag dolls into the air and against the ship's walls and windows.
New York crane collapses, injures seven construction workers
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A crane collapse at a construction site in Queens, New York, Wednesday afternoon, January 9th injured seven, according to city fire officials.