NEW YORK — Some women from Kansas were taking in as much of New York City as they could Wednesday. They hopped on a subway, watched the construction at the World Trade Center site and visited lower Manhattan's newest tourist destination: the park (...)
NEW YORK — For weeks, a cluster of computerized protesters have camped in a park near Wall Street, telling the world how they believe America's billionaires destroyed the economy.
Suddenly, Wednesday afternoon, the typing stopped — when the world (...)
NEW YORK — The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan's Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper — the Occupied Wall Street (...)
As a trend-setting designer and architect, David Rockwell has done it all — from Broadway shows and a restaurant partly owned by Robert De Niro to children's hospitals and a hip hotel near Times Square.
On Friday, his latest creation will open: (...)
NEW YORK: The Muslim cleric who hopes to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site said Friday that he'll tour the country in an effort "to inspire interfaith understanding" for a project that has ignited explosive faceoffs between (...)
Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, died Sunday. She was 92.
Horne died at (...)
Tavern on the Green, once America s highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song.
The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year s Eve, when (...)
An African music star who ignited worldwide controversy among fellow Muslims with one of his albums performed Saturday in New York at an arts festival aimed at spreading a deeper understanding of Islam.
I want to show the true face of Islam - a (...)
NEW YORK: A leading Arab-American activist said Friday he plans to open an office in Hollywood to challenge stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the US entertainment industry.
The equation on American television and film is, Arab equals terrorist, (...)