In New York, two school buses collided
In the American city of Rochester, New York, two school buses collided. As a result, one driver was killed and 10 students were injured, reports Associated Press. As the journalist of one of the local newspapers Tina MacIntyre-Yee wrote in her microblog, four children got serious ...
The mayor of New York criticized the police who turned away
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned police officers who turned their backs on him at the funeral of Wen Jian Liu, one of two police officers killed late last year. According to the mayor, the protesters showed disrespect for their fallen colleagues and their families...
New York zoos again left without pandas
Carolyn Maloney, the House of Representatives Democrat in the US Congress, represents the 12th District of New York (Manhattan) there. For 15 years, Maloney has been trying to get pandas to be brought to zoos in New York from China, but so far without success. Zoos of the metropolis rich in exotic animals ...
New Yorkers staged pickets in restaurants against racial discrimination
In New York, several dozen people staged pickets in restaurants to protest police brutality and racial discrimination. They went to popular restaurants in Manhattan and read out the names of African Americans who have died in recent months at the hands of law enforcement officers, reports ...
New York Metro-North Railway will check all train drivers for sleep apnea
The crash of the Metro-North train will be remembered for a long time by all New Yorkers. As a reminder, in early December in the Bronx, a train of the MetroNorth railroad went off the rails, killing four people and sending six dozen passengers to the hospital with injuries of varying severity. ...
Russian-speaking America chooses a man of the year
Outstanding artists of our time, talented musicians and teachers, active public figures, philanthropists and patrons of the arts - all these people are united by the fact that they live in America and speak the same language - Russian. They came to the United States at different times from...
The revolving restaurant Rainbow Room has reopened in New York
The legendary establishment, located on the top floor of a high-rise building in downtown New York, reopened its doors this week. The chic Rainbow Room restaurant on the 65th floor of the famous Rockefeller Center has been closed for five years. Disputes between the company that owns ...
New York for the first time in 70 years overtook suburbs in population growth
It seems that a detached house with a lawn outside the city is gradually ceasing to be the ultimate dream for New Yorkers. At least this is true for the Millennial generation (people born after 1981), many of whom prefer the comforts of life in a big city to relative tranquility ...
What will be the future of New York?
It is difficult to predict in detail what the New York of the future will be like. Throughout its history, this city has changed several times, sometimes beyond recognition. It's likely that in a few decades, some areas of the Big Apple will look very different. Especially if…
One of the streets of New York officially given the name of Sergey Dovlatov
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed a legislative act, according to which one of the streets in the Queens area should be named after the Russian writer and journalist Sergei Dovlatov. This information was confirmed on Thursday by correspondent. ITAR-TASS in the press service of de Blasio. ...