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Review: 'City on Fire,' Garth Risk Hallberg's Novel of New York in the Bad Old ...

Garth Risk Hallberg's “City on Fire” is a big, stunning first novel and an amazing virtual reality machine, whisking us back to New York City in the 1970s, that gritty, graffitied era when the city tottered on the brink of bankruptcy, when the Bronx ... >> view original

38-Year-Old Doctor Found Dead in Manhattan Doorway Used Cocaine Before Being ...

Sources told NBC 4 New York Monday that after Cerveny became ill after consuming cocaine inside an apartment of a five-story walk-up building on West 16th Street. The two men she was with tried to carry her to a cab downstairs, but she collapsed, the ... >> view original

A Missing Ship With No Signs of Survivors

The company was getting ready to launch a brand new ship powered with liquid natural gas, which was expected to make the Jacksonville-San Juan run. El Faro was being retrofitted and was going to be sent to Alaska. A company spokesman said that five ... >> view original

Amtrak Train En Route to New York Area Derails in Vermont After Striking Rocks ...

An Amtrak train headed from Vermont to Washington, D.C., on Monday hit rocks that had fallen onto the track from a ledge, spilling the locomotive and a passenger car down an embankment, derailing three other cars and injuring seven people, authorities ... >> view original

Russian Soldiers to Join Fight in Syria

Sounding emboldened by the Russian airstrikes, Mr. Zarif said at a talk in New York that there was a difference between Russia — which was invited by Mr. Assad to help — and the American-led coalition that has been bombing Syria. “Why are you there? >> view original

2nd Body Recovered After New York City Building Explosion

A second body was discovered Monday in the rubble of an apartment building that exploded over the weekend. No identification had been made, and it could take time to identify the body. But authorities have said 47-year-old Francesca Figueroa apparently ... >> view original

New York Today: Fields of October

[New York Times] ... ... And a look at some fatal gas explosions in the city from the last several years. [New York Times]. • Mayor de Blasio tried to gather support for his rezoning plan for East New York, with a stop at a neighborhood church. [New ... >> view original

Why the next recession is set to truly slam New York

The last time the American economy crashed, Gotham powered through it. We didn't see the massive teacher and police layoffs and service cuts other cities saw. But if the national economy falters again, this time could be different. For Mayor de Blasio ... >> view original

Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports

But because Congress did not foresee how fantasy sports would explode, one member, Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, recently requested a hearing to explore the relationship between fantasy sports and gambling. “I really think ... >> view original

Delegating, Jack Dorsey Will Lead Twitter and Square

The pair will face top advertisers and agencies together for the first time in New York on Thursday when they make a presentation about the company's video advertising products and discuss the marketing potential of a new feature, code-named Project ... >> view original