This Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an appearance at Zuccotti Park and announced that the Occupy Wall Street protesters had to leave in order to clean the park. Many of the protesters thought it sounded more like a ploy to ultimately remove them. In their efforts to stop the cleanup, they started cleaning on Thursday. [...]
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World Trade Wreckage Ship Commissioned
Video by: Danielle Pierre Photos by: Keziah Green Just four days before Veterans Day, the USS New York, a ship made in part out of steel from the World Trade Center wreckage, was commissioned at Pier 88 on the Westside of Manhattan. The ceremony included speeches by Governor David Paterson and Secretary of [...]
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Bloomberg Wins New York City Mayoral Election
Tuesday was the New York City Mayoral Election of 2009 between Democrat William Thompson, and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg. There was an even lower turnout than expected, but an election that was predicted to be dominated by Bloomberg ended up being quite the opposite.
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A Decent Burial, 200 Years Later
For a few hours last week, Lower Manhattan traded the noisy clamor of taxis and the chatter of attorneys for drumming, singing and dancing as a throng of people properly put their ancestors to rest after hundreds of years. This was not a mass funeral, but rather the dedication of the African Burial Ground Memorial; [...]
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