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Summer Returns to the City - Record Heat is Forecast in NYC for the Summer Solstice

Photos and Video: President Obama Visits Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker in the West Village

Mayor Bloomberg's Soft Drink Ban Has One Major Problem: It Won't Work

The View From Above: Looking Down on Lower Manhattan Almost 100 Years Ago

Time-Lapse Video of the Space Shuttle Enterprise Being Lifted Onto the Intrepid's Flight Deck

Triple Crown Hopeful 'I'll Have Another' is Scratched From This Weekend's Belmont Stakes

High-Altitude Helicopter Over Brooklyn in the Prospect Heights and Park Slope Area

Space Shuttle Enterprise Moves to the Intrepid Museum [photos and video]

Join WNYC's Kurt Andersen to Celebrate Brooklyn's Urban Creative Life with 'Kings County'

DayLife Street Fair on the Lower East Side

Celebrate Israel Parade 2012 Begins at Noon

Financial Troubles May Close Cake Shop on the Lower East Side

Manhattanhenge 2025 — Photography Tips and Viewing Locations

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