Don’t make me turn this plane around: 100 kids kicked off flight
(Photo: Michael Dwyer / AP)
A group of about 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off an AirTran flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn’t sit down and put away their cellphones.
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Arvind Mahankali, 13, wins National Spelling Bee
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The seven-letter word “knaidel” crowned Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.Y., champion of the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, breaking his streak of bad luck in past years with spelling words of German origin.
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Manhattanhenge! A skyscraper sunset stops traffic in New York City
(Photo: Edgar Gonzalez via Flickr)
New Yorkers were wowed on Wednesday by a sunset that was perfectly framed by skyscrapers, thanks to an urban astronomical phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.
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NYC artist’s photos of unknowing subjects raise privacy concerns
(Photo: Bebeto Matthews / AP)
To the well-known photographer who shot them with a telephoto lens, the pictures of people going about their daily lives in the building across the street constitute art.
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Bird’s eye view of WTC spire being positioned
(Photo: Port Authority of NY & NJ)
The Port Authority of NY & NJ has released a video of the view from the One World Trade Center spire as it was being placed atop of the building making it the tallest in the western hemisphere.
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World Trade Center becomes tallest US building at 1776 feet
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A crane lifted the last of a 408-foot tall spire on top of One World Trade Center on Friday, a capstone to an emotional 12-year effort to replace the twin towers destroyed by terrorists.
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Beastie Boy Adam Yauch gets park named after him in Brooklyn
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Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boy otherwise known as MCA, had a Brooklyn playground renamed for him Friday, a day before the one-year anniversary of his death.
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Final pieces lifted to top of Freedom Tower
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Construction crews on Thursday hoisted the final steel spire that will top One World Trade Center and complete a piece of the New York City skyline missing since the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Search for human remains at 9/11 plane debris site in NYC begins
(Graphic: FEMA)
Workers for the New York City medical examiner’s office have begun sifting soil for possible human remains at a site near the World Trade Center where a chunk of airplane debris believed to have come from one of the 9/11 hijacked jetliners was found.
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Invasive ‘Frankenfish’ that can live out of water for days to be hunted in NYC’s Central Park
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Environmental officials are planning to survey a Central Park lake this week to search for an invasive type of toothy predator fish that threatens to disrupt the ecosystem.
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Six months after Sandy: ‘Home sweet home’ for some, others still adrift
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BREEZY POINT, N.Y. — The construction noises are almost constant at daytime in this coastal enclave six months after Hurricane Sandy, but for many residents whose homes were badly damaged, recovery is moving at a slow pace – or not at all.
Read the complete story and explore our photo interactive: Breezy Point then and now.
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Jailed for 23 years, freed man suffers heart attack a day later
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A man released 23 years after he was wrongly convicted for the 1991 murder of a New York rabbi suffered a heart attack on his second day as a free man, his attorney confirmed to NBC News.
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Picked up for 3 bucks, Chinese bowl goes for $2.2 million at auction
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A Chinese bowl that a New York family picked up for $3 at a garage sale turned out to be a 1,000-year-old treasure and has sold at auction for $2.2 million.
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Four people have been shot dead at a car wash and a barber shop in upstate New York, state police told NBC affiliate WKTV.
This is a breaking news story. Check back to NBCNews.com updates.
NY woman who guarded flying cash gets her reward
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The New York woman who guarded $11,000 in cash that flew out the back of an armored truck this week will get a $2,500 reward.
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Natalie got an earful (of whoopee cushion) today.
Jony Ive redesigns the NBC News logo.
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