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by Catherine TRIOMPHE NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A New York commuter train derailed Wednesday during the morning rush at a station in Brooklyn, sparking chaotic scenes and leaving more than 100 people with minor injuries. The accident at Atlantic Terminal in the heart of the New York borough came less than four months after a fatal crash on another commuter line in New Jersey, when a speeding train derailed and slammed into […]
NEW YORK (Eagle News) – The New York Knicks’ woes continue as the Milwaukee Bucks rallied from a 16-point deficit to defeat the Knicks 105-104 on a buzzer beating jumper by Giannis Antetokounmpo on Wednesday night. During the first half, the game was neck-to-neck. The Madison Square Garden crowd was excited as the hometown team, the New York Knicks, looked to snap their 5-game losing streak by pulling away with the lead in […]
NEW YORK , United States (Reuters ) — Thieves in New York broke into a jewelry wholesaler and made off with $6 million in valuables on New Year’s Eve, just blocks from the nationally televised and highly secured Times Square street party celebrating the holiday, police said on Tuesday (January 3). Three men broke in to a building on Manhattan’s 36th Street at 10 p.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday (December 31), police said. A surveillance […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Mariah Carey is surely hoping that 2017 goes better than her 2016 ended. The pop music diva endured an embarrassing technical meltdown during a New Year’s Eve show witnessed by thousands in New York’s Times Square and millions more across the United States. The huge malfunction happened during her performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest,” billed as “the last big performance of 2016 by […]
Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, peaked the interest of many on January 3rd with the suggestion of a proposal that would cover tuition prices at public universities and colleges in New York State for families earning up to $125,000 by 2019. “College is a mandatory step if you really want to be a success,” the Democratic governor said as he announced the plan, which requires approval by the state’s legislature. About 70 percent of […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — It was the final test run before the big New Year’s Eve countdown in Times Square. The organizers of New York City’s New Year’s Eve event stood atop One Times Square, counted down, flipped the switch, and launched the world famous Times Square crystal ball rise 130-feet (40 meters) into the air. Come New Year’s Eve, more than one million people will come to Times Square to watch the […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — New Yorkers and tourists lined up in Times Square on Wednesday (December 28) to ring in the new year early by throwing away bad memories for the 10th annual “Good Riddance Day.” The event aims to get rid of all the negativity from 2016 in order to make room for all the possibilities and positivity that 2017 has in store. “It’s time to get a little bit more substantive […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — The iconic Times Square New Year’s Ball Drop is just days away and final preparations were being made to the world famous Waterford crystal ball on Tuesday (December 27). Workers installed the last of the 288 new sparkling Waterford crystal triangles. The new crystal triangles feature a new design for 2017 called the “Gift of Kindness”. Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Alliance explained. “The Waterford theme […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Former Denver Nuggets coach George Karl is harshly critical of New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony in an unsparing new memoir in which he calls the player a “user of people.” Anthony spent his first seven-and-a-half NBA seasons with the Nuggets, playing six-and-a-half of those campaigns — from 2005 until early 2011 — for Karl. “Carmelo was a true conundrum for me in the six years I had him,” […]
NEW YORK,United States (Reuters) – Three new subway stations along Manhattan’s Second Avenue will finally open on New Year’s Day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday (December 22), 10 years after construction started and decades after the seemingly interminable project was first proposed. “There’s much talk about the deadline and the deadline is January 1, and we are committed to that deadline and the train is going to run if we have to […]
Contributed by Joy Anne Andres, Amber Sanchez, and Leo Sanchez The Metropolitan Transit Authority workers of New York City have been working hard lately on the long awaited subway on Second Avenue. The expansion was first became an idea in the 1920s and was given an estimate cost of $86 million, but because of the Great Depression, World War II, and other financial problems, the timing in constructing was just not right. This subway line […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Carmelo Anthony scored a season-high 35 points to lead the New York Knicks to a 114-103 NBA victory over the short-handed Heat in Miami on Tuesday. Anthony shook off a slow start to connect on 13 of 27 shots from the field in an impressive display that included three three-pointers and two alley-oop dunks. “I finally found my rhythm after the first quarter,” Anthony said. “I was trying to find […]
