NYC artist’s photos of unknowing subjects raise privacy concerns
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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
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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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Cheers erupt as spire tops One World Trade Center
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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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Welcome to Tofu Elementary! NYC school goes all-vegetarian
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Braised black beans and plantains. Tofu roasted in Asian sesame sauce. Falafel and cucumber salad. These aren’t menu items from a high-end restaurant; they’re lunchtime grub for students at a Flushing, Queens, public school’s all-vegetarian cafeteria, the first in New York City to nix meat and believed to be one of the first public school in the nation to serve only vegetarian fare.
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Search for human remains at 9/11 plane debris site in NYC begins
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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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Following Sandy damage, Statue of Liberty to reopen on Fourth of July
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The Statue of Liberty, closed since Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeast more than nine months ago, will reopen to the public on July 4, officials announced Tuesday.
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Bloomberg ‘confident’ NYC will win battle over sugary drink ban
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New York City’s mayor vowed to appeal a state supreme court judge’s reversal, adding, “We have a responsibility” to confront the obesity epidemic.
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More than three months after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey, the symbol of American exceptionalism still stands on an island full of rubble. Neighboring Ellis Island has no upended sidewalks or debris anymore, but it will take a long time to repair the electrical system. Both remain closed indefinitely to visitors.
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Danger not over as Northeast digs out after storm
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Ten deaths are blamed on the blizzard, including a boy killed by carbon monoxide; hundreds of thousands still without power.
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‘Whiteout’: Potentially historic winter storm closes in on Northeast
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Severe winter weather barrels toward some of the most populated parts of the nation, closing schools, causing travel chaos and threatening two feet of snow and gale-force winds.
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#NBCNewsPics: Share your blizzard photos
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A crippling and potentially historic winter storm is barreling toward the Northeast this weekend, threatening tens of millions of people with 2 feet of snow. How is the blizzard affecting your area? Show us with the hashtag #NBCNewsPics on Instagram, Twitter, or upload your pictures directly to NBCNews.com on the link below.
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