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New York City history in pictures

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 10:46am

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This March 22, 2012 photo provided by the Smithsonian Channel shows a life-size replica of Titanoboa, the biggest snake to have ever roamed the earth, on display in Grand Central Terminal. The 48 long behemoth lived 60 million years ago during time just after dinosaurs became extinct. The snake will be on display until Friday evening and will then travel to the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in Washington DC where it will go on display beginning March 30. "TITANOBOA: MONSTER SNAKE," premieres April 1st on Smithsonian Channel. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Channel, Mark Von Holden)

Prehistoric monster snake slithers through NYC

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 3:25pm

NEW YORK -- A prehistoric monster snake is making a quick stopover in New York City's Grand Central Terminal.

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The Rodarte fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Fashion Week 2012 in New York City

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 2:48pm

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Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in Zuccotti Park after marching around Wall Street in New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Demonstrations of Occupy Wall Street protesters popped up from coast to coast Thursday to mark two months since the movement's birth in a lower Manhattan park. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march through the financial district

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:13pm

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(BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 6, 2011, file photo, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly listens during his testimony about NYPD intelligence operations to the New York City Council public safety committee in New York. Three months ago, one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer, a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan, was assigned to a municipal police department. Kelly said the CIA operative provides his officers “with information, usually coming from perhaps overseas.” He said the CIA operative provides “technical information” to the NYPD but “doesn’t have access to any of our investigative files.”

What’s the CIA doing at NYPD? Depends whom you ask

Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 7:43am

WASHINGTON — Three months ago, one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees.

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Delay of NYC park cleanup heartens protesters

Colleen Long, Karen Matthews The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 12:05pm

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A New York City police officer shoves a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests as they march through the streets in the Wall St. area, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 in New York. The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Occupy Wall Street protesters meet police as they march to Wall Street in NYC

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Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 10:28am

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FILE - Hundreds participating in the Occupy Wall Street Protest continue to camp in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 in New York. The protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange and has since grown into a national movement. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) Protesters will have to clear out of the private Manhattan park where they've been camped out for nearly a month so the owners can clean it, but they'll be allowed to return afterward, city officials said.

NY protest site needs a scrubbing, city says

Verena Dobnik The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:54pm

NEW YORK -- Protesters will have to clear out of the private Manhattan park where they've been camped out for nearly a month so the owners can clean it, but they'll be allowed to return afterward, city officials said.

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GOP wins in NY House race, seen as Obama rebuke

Beth Fouhy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 8:41am

NEW YORK — Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that started as a contest to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner after he resigned in a sexting scandal but became a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic policies.

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Gov. Herbert finishing trip to DC, New York

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 7:47am

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is finishing a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. and New York City with a meeting at the Interior Department.

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Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb plot in N.Y., Washington, D.C.

Eileen Sullivan, Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:53am

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Thursday they were investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat that al-Qaida was planning to use a car bomb to target bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the first tip of an “active plot” around that date.

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Johnny Lamca throws away ruined items from his flooded home in Manville, N.J., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Lamca said this flooding from Hurricane Irene was the worst of the four times that his home has been flooded by the Raritan River. Earlier Monday in Manville, Gov. Chris Christie said waters had reached or passed record levels at nine river locations, and he warned that the Passaic River had not yet crested. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Experts praise decisions to evacuate from Irene

Samantha Gross, Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 10:10am

NEW YORK — They were life and death decisions made by politicians, bureaucrats and everyday people. Hurricane Irene was barreling toward the East Coast. It was big. It was scary. Flooding was certain. The choice: Flee or stay put.

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A pedestrian passes under the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras in Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2011. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Police Department has become one of the country's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, one that operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would be prohibited for the federal government. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 7:09am

NEW YORK — In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

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(Steve Helber/The Associated Press) Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine.

Puzzled East Coasters: An earthquake? No way

Bob Lewis, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 6:52am

MINERAL, Va. — For a few minutes from Georgia to Maine, the question rang out: What was that? The answer — a rare East Coast earthquake, magnitude 5.8 — was far down on the list for most not used to the earth shaking beneath them.

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(SETH WENIG/The Associated Press) Participants in counter-terrorism training look for radioactive material with a handheld device south of the Verrezano-Narrows Bridge during a drill in New York on Thursday.

Costly dirty-bomb program put to test during NYC harbor exercise

The Associated Press, Tom Hays

Last updated Friday, April 8, 2011 - 8:34pm

NEW YORK -- On a cold afternoon at the mouth of New York Harbor, a tiny yellow fishing boat bobs in the water as a flotilla of law enforcement vessels fitted with sophisticated radiation detection equipment closes in.

The boat has drawn suspicion by emitting gamma rays -- a sign it may be carrying a dirty bomb, packed with radioactive material. High-speed vessels from the New York Police Department and state Naval Militia halt the boat, tie it up and accomplish their mission of neutralizing an apparent terror threat.

The radiation was real, but the threat wasn't: The scene Thursday was a drill designed to test an ambitious NYPD-led effort called Securing the Cities. The program aims to detect and intercept radiological devices before they can wreak havoc on Wall Street and other high-profile targets in Manhattan, the heart of the nation's largest city.

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