Diana Nyad's Historic Swim Inspires Baby Boomers
She swam nonstop for 53 grueling hours, but told her support team that at one point, swimming through the night almost broke her. Almost.
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She swam nonstop for 53 grueling hours, but told her support team that at one point, swimming through the night almost broke her. Almost.
Bill de Blasio's poll numbers are close to the magic 40% that would allow him to clinch the nomination outright. If no candidate crosses that threshold though, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff on October 1st.
Megan Bookstaver, who is from Hicksville, Long Island, was shot in the head just after 4 p.m. on Labor Day, police said.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers has earmarked $500 million to lift 4,500 homes five to 10 feet to weather future storms.
The search continued Tuesday for both a suspect and witnesses in a shooting that left a 1-year-old boy dead in Brownsville, Brooklyn this past weekend.
Kerry, along with the Joint Chiefs chairman and defense secretary, went in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make the case to hit Syria for its use of chemical weapons.
Since the Great Depression, newsstands in the lobbies of public buildings and courthouses have been operated by the blind and the stands were designed with that in mind. But the new one in the lobby of the Criminal Court Building on Schermerhorn Street didn't pass muster.
The bike path along the Hudson River is popular with New Jersey bikers who even though it's dark take the route and cross the George Washington Bridge to get home at night.
At $92 a pop, Estee Lauder's Advanced Night Repair cream carries a big promise in a little bottle - the youth potion every woman is looking for.
Officers pursued a sport-utility vehicle with Florida license plates and arrested two people, but a third man ran after the vehicle crashed, prompting a manhunt in the community along Jones Road where Fort Lee and Leonia share a border.
The man was outside trying to determine why the house had lost power when he touched a live grounding wire.
Police said Albert DiBernardo of Melville was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck and killed 44-year-old bicyclist Ricardo Fernandez in Dix Hills.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is suing to try to block a law that would make it easier to sue the NYPD over stop and frisks or other actions people claimed were discriminatory.
The Wildlife Conservation Society says two new female sea lions are now on exhibit at its Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn. Two adult male sea lions from Oregon now live at the Queens Zoo.
Letters containing powder were sent to two homes in Darien, Conn.
