James Barron The New York Times

The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson -- a Schubert sonatina in A minor. His assessment of her playing was diplomatic: "She needed to...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended his decision to clear the park in Lower Manhattan that was the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, saying "health and safety conditions became intolerable" in the park where the protesters had camped out for nearly two months.

President Barack Obama opened a sun-splashed day of solemn remembrance on Sunday by honoring the 9/11 dead with a visit to ground zero, bowing his head at the cascading pools of the North Memorial Pond created in the footprint of the demolished north tower of the World Trade Center.

With Hurricane Irene threatening a full-force hit, New York City on Thursday ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and senior centres in low-lying areas and made plans for the possible shutdown of the entire transit system.

The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson -- a Schubert sonatina in A minor. His assessment of her playing was diplomatic: "She needed to...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended his decision to clear the park in Lower Manhattan that was the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, saying "health and safety conditions became intolerable" in the park where the protesters had camped out for nearly two months.

President Barack Obama opened a sun-splashed day of solemn remembrance on Sunday by honoring the 9/11 dead with a visit to ground zero, bowing his head at the cascading pools of the North Memorial Pond created in the footprint of the demolished north tower of the World Trade Center.

With Hurricane Irene threatening a full-force hit, New York City on Thursday ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and senior centres in low-lying areas and made plans for the possible shutdown of the entire transit system.