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East coast travel chaos continues with 20,000 flights cancelled
NEW YORK — Travel chaos from Hurricane Sandy dragged into a fourth day with roads still covered in floodwater and debris, New York’s subway still closed and flights cancellations reaching nearly 20,000 Wednesday. Massive cleanup efforts have restored power and most public services to millions caught in Sandy’s destructive path…
The show must go on: New York’s Broadway to reopen
NEW YORK — Most of the shows in New York’s iconic Broadway theater district are to reopen on Wednesday, after being suspended as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the city, the Broadway League said. Some of the city’s most popular shows, including Jersey Boys and The Book of Mormon, were…
New York devastated by storm horror
NEW YORK — New York awoke in shock Tuesday to the devastation of superstorm Sandy, which left at least 10 dead in the city and threatened to leave days of chaos in its wake. Firefighters battled blazes and carried out rescues in flooded houses a day after the storm set…
MTA spokesperson: New York City subway flooding ‘affects every borough’
The New York City subway system sustained serious damage due to floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy, and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokesperson said Tuesday morning that seven vital subway tunnels under the East River are flooded, in a historic disaster that “affects every borough” in the city. “We’re in the…
Crane on New York skyscraper buckles in storm winds
NEW YORK — Gale force winds from Hurricane Sandy on Monday buckled a crane on top of a 90-story New York apartment block which was left dangling as the storm intensified. Police and fire services cleared streets and some other buildings around the high-rise, close to Central Park, which was…
Hurricane Sandy grounds 12,000 flights
NEW YORK — More than 12,000 flights have been grounded as Hurricane Sandy thwarted travel up and down the US East Coast Monday with powerful winds and blinding rain that could linger for days. That number is expected to grow as the slow-moving “Frankenstorm” churns its way inland after making…
New Yorkers resist pleas to leave storm risk zones
Police toured flood-threatened districts of New York on Monday almost begging tens of thousands of hurricane refuseniks to move away from a looming mega-storm. With New York at a near standstill ahead of a predicted storm surge of up to 11 feet (3.5 meters) of seawater, police with loud hailers…
Eastern U.S. in lockdown ahead of Hurricane Sandy
Much of the eastern United States was in lockdown mode Monday awaiting the arrival of a hurricane dubbed “Frankenstorm” that threatened to wreak havoc on the area with storm surges, driving rain and gale-force winds. New York authorities ordered the evacuation Sunday of 375,000 people from low-lying coastal areas as…
Acclaimed Turkish pianist Fazil Say tried for blasphemy
World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say went on trial Thursday before an Istanbul court on charges of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in comments he made on Twitter. Some 100 human rights activists, including artists and journalists, gathered outside the courthouse in support of the artist who has played with the…
Beverage groups sue over New York ‘supersize’ ban
A US beverage industry group and other businesses filed a lawsuit Friday against the administration of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a bid to block restrictions on sales of large soda drinks. Plaintiffs led by the American Beverage Association and the National Restaurant Association took the city to court…
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