Christie Wants Money To Repair Newark Rail Bridge
Gov. Chris Christie killed plans for a Hudson River tunnel, but now he wants money for a bridge over the Hackensack River.
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Gov. Chris Christie killed plans for a Hudson River tunnel, but now he wants money for a bridge over the Hackensack River.
Anderson most recently served as superintendent of Alternative High Schools and Programming for the New York City Board of Education.
Five-year-old Landon, two-year-old Lance and 11-month-old Laianna were killed nearly two weeks ago when their mother loaded them into a minivan and drove it into the Hudson.
The mother of four was buried without the three children she killed at the request of their father -- who did not attend her funeral.
A neighbor says a New York woman who drowned herself and her children in the Hudson River had been in a loud fight with the kids' father in the hour before the fatal plunge.
Armstrong posted on her Facebook page a half hour before the murder-suicide: "I'm so sorry everyone forgive me please for what I'm gonna do... This is it!"
The suicidal mother who loaded her four children into a minivan and drove it into the Hudson River cryptically announced her intention, seeking forgiveness in a Facebook message just before the fatal plunge.
Police said she let a fourth child, a 10-year-old boy, out of the minivan before driving it off the dock. The child told firefighters his mother had killed herself and his brothers and sister.
Amtrak has cleared equipment that closed one of the two rail tunnels leading in and out of New York City.
The hope is to find ways to reduce dependency on Indian Point.
Once upon a time, downtown would become a ghost time after the trading day ended. But things are changing.
"Well, I have, for all of my tenure, believe that Indian Point should not be there and should not be recertified," says Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef.
The plane whose splash landing was called "The Miracle on the Hudson" is set for its final destination: a North Carolina aviation museum.
New York City's first waterfront plan in two decades envisions a metropolis where residents relax by fishing or biking in parks, kayak in the Hudson River, commute by ferry, and buy items that were brought to their neighborhood via barge.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lent - the 40 days of prayer observed by Christians.
The space shuttle landed in Florida today but New York City hopes another will land alongside its aircraft carrier sometime in the future.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Michael Faraldi called friends Feb. 26 about an hour before he arrived over Kingston-Ulster Airport, midway between Albany and New York City.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said the body of 38-year-old Michael Faraldi was removed around 3 p.m. Sunday.
Authorities in Ulster County say a vintage military jet crashed in the Hudson River as it came in for a landing at an airport in Kingston. The pilot was missing and feared dead.
"High-speed rail is right along the lines of what we need," said Sen. Bob Menendez. "It's what the world is doing."
A police boat and a commuter ferry helped tow an empty paddle-wheel charter boat back to shore after it broke loose from a pier on the Hudson River.
A German shepherd who was pulled from the frigid waters of New York's Hudson River last month after falling off her owner's yacht has died in a fire.
Gov. Christie scrapped the project over feared cost overruns.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney worries that New Jersey could lose out on $128 million the federal government offered to credit back to help ease traffic jams once the state pays in full.
New Jersey found itself digging out from another major snowstorm Thursday and dealing with canceled flights, closed schools, some for the second day in a row, and slippery roads.
