Fourth Of July Fireworks Traffic/Transit Guide
The best way to attend the show is by public transportation via the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Due to the expected high volume of traffic, revelers are urged to leave their cars at home.
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The best way to attend the show is by public transportation via the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Due to the expected high volume of traffic, revelers are urged to leave their cars at home.
For the best seat in the house, spectators are encouraged to watch the show from public viewing locations set up between 22nd to 59th Streets on the West Side of Manhattan.
How do you put a price tag on the value of a park? That's what the Friends of Westchester County Parks are looking to do with their new $70,000 study.
It's a big weekend for movies and along with the blockbuster films at the box office, there are also the toys.
Lucy is a 9-year old Pekingese mix looking for a new home.
It may be hard to believe, but apparently a lot of Americans don't even know what the 4th of July is all about.
The Coast Guard has banned boats from the area near the base of the Verrazano Bridge where 1,500 live anti-aircraft shells are sitting at the bottom of Gravesend Bay.
While the sale of fireworks is illegal in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware, beaches and backyards in those states and others could be more explosive than ever this year.
The holiday weekend continues and there are lots of events going on around the Tri-state area to keep you and your family busy all weekend-long.
The victim, identified only as a Somerset County resident, went under Saturday evening in Dallenbach Lake.
Police say a mail truck hit 68-year-old Marilyn Dershowitz as she rode her bike in Chelsea near West 29th Street and Ninth Avenue Saturday afternoon.
With all the vacations and recreation going on, kids can forget a lot of what they learned during the school year, but there are some things you can do to keep your child at the head of the class and still have a great summer.
One of the exhibits you can see at the Metropolitan Museum of Art right now is a treasure trove of fancy European boxes, telling stories that are centuries old.
With contemporary beat box and some comedy too, The Voca People eight performers transformed those vocals into their own versions of pop, classical, hip hop, you name it. For the first time, they're performing in New York.
Residents of a public housing complex in Flushing thought they were hearing 4th of July fireworks when the shooting happened around 5:45 Saturday evening. But the three pops were gunshots.
