# New York City

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# nose pegs please

New York city has trees that smell like bad sex

What else can you call an odour that recalls a mixture of ‘rotting fish and semen’? Introducing the Bradford Pear tree.

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Apr 27th 2013, 11:30 AM

# Boston Marathon

New York City on high alert after Boston explosions

Barack Obama to address the nation on the situation as NYC goes into security lockdown.

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Apr 15th 2013, 10:57 PM

# Property Porn

Photos: Here’s what a €95 million apartment in New York looks like

The penthouse apartment at the Pierre Hotel is on the market – and if it sells, it will set a new record for a New York City gaff.

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Apr 14th 2013, 6:30 PM

# September 11

Authorities resume search for human remains in New York's 9/11 debris

Eleven years after the 2001 attacks, about 60 truckloads of debris are again being searched for the remains of missing victims.

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Apr 2nd 2013, 2:30 PM

# sitdown sunday

Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.

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Mar 3rd 2013, 10:30 AM

# city living

16 greatest cities in human history

From Jericho in 7000 BC right through to New York City in the 1900s, here are the largest cities in the world through human history.

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Feb 3rd 2013, 9:15 AM

# USA

Why NYC can't save people from being hit by subways

Sliding doors suggestions would be ‘too complicated and costly’ to implement.

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Jan 6th 2013, 11:00 AM

# Whale

Whale beached in New York neighbourhood dies

The endangered fin whale was found in the Breezy Point neighbourhood of Queens yesterday.

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Dec 27th 2012, 8:45 PM

# Prime Numbers

Absent TDs, rapper dollars and 'The Talk': The week in numbers

What percentage of 13-year-old turn to their dads for sex and relationship advice? How many eggs narrowly missed Taoiseach Enda Kenny?

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Dec 1st 2012, 7:30 PM

# ho ho ho

Photos: Rockefeller Center Christmas lights turned on (with help from the Muppets)

The lights on the 80-feet tree at Rockefeller Plaza were switched on last night in front of thousands of onlookers.

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Nov 29th 2012, 2:00 PM

# Looking Back

'I was the first to cry' - AP sports writer's harrowing tale of Sandy

Dennis Waszak had moved into his Staten Island ‘dream house’ just weeks before the arrival of Superstorm Sandy.

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Nov 6th 2012, 10:37 AM

# hurricane sandy

LIVE: Watch the Weather Channel’s coverage of Hurricane Sandy

The hurricane is now just hours from making landfall. Watch live coverage from the United States right here.

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Oct 30th 2012, 8:05 AM

# Frankenstorm

PHOTOS: New York battens down the hatches as Sandy approaches

The Metropolitan Transport Authority has locked up the train network ahead of Sandy’s landfall this evening.

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Oct 29th 2012, 4:22 PM

# New York

New York: Thousands evacuated, subways closed down in advance of massive storm

The city is applying precautions ahead of the ‘megastorm’ headed towards the US east coast.

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Oct 28th 2012, 5:43 PM

# hurricane sandy

'Frankenstorm' downgraded to tropical storm

Meteorologists have downplayed the rhetoric around Hurricane Sandy.

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Oct 27th 2012, 11:25 AM

# Federal Reserve

Family defend Bangladeshi man arrested for NY bomb plot

The suspect’s father said he spent all of his savings to send him to America to study so he would have a better chance at life.

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Oct 18th 2012, 2:14 PM

# Game on

Check out this life-size Mousetrap game

Gigantic fun and games at New York engineering and inventor festival.

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Oct 7th 2012, 6:00 PM

# Fizzy Drinks

New York City's ban on large fizzy drinks to take effect in six months

The ban had been expected and has been welcomed by the city’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Sep 13th 2012, 10:06 PM

# party time

Did Andy Murray really only spend $6 at his US Open celebration party last night?

You’ve just won your first Grand Slam title and ended a 76-year winless streak for British men. How do you celebrate?

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Sep 11th 2012, 12:39 PM

# grand designs

Is this the ugliest billion-dollar stadium you have ever seen?

If it’s not, we want to know.

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Aug 29th 2012, 10:47 AM

# Shooting

Police shoot dead a man near Times Square in NYC

Police say the man lunged at them with a knife.

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Aug 12th 2012, 1:32 PM

# WOrld War Z

Could zombies walk among us? Watch and find out...

How will people react if (when?) the apocalypse comes?

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Jul 31st 2012, 11:35 AM

# gaff force one

Look inside: Barack Obama's student flat is up for rent

The US president’s tiny old apartment in New York is available. Let’s have a nosey around, shall we?

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Jul 20th 2012, 10:36 AM

# gulp

New York City set to ban large fizzy drinks

NYC’s major Michael Bloomberg says he wants to ban the drinks from restaurants, cinemas and street stalls.

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May 31st 2012, 12:55 PM

# On your bike

New York City to launch public bike share scheme this summer

The city’s awaited bike scheme, launching this summer, will provide a “new, affordable, 24/7 transportation option for New Yorkers” according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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May 8th 2012, 2:30 PM

# Skyscrapers

World Trade Center is now New York's tallest building again

The new tower is reclaiming the title held by its predecessors destroyed on 9/11 – check out this time-lapse video of its eight-year construction…

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Apr 30th 2012, 6:54 PM

# Photos

Tale of one city: almost one million never-before-seen photos of New York released

Some 870,000 images of New York City dating back from the mid-1880s have been released for the first time – showing everything from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

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Apr 25th 2012, 5:36 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Good morning! Nine things to know this Saturday…

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Apr 21st 2012, 8:51 AM

# 9/11

Some 9/11 victims' remains went to landfill - Pentagon report

A report by the Pentagon has found that “several portions of remains” of people who died in the terrorist attacks were put in a landfill.

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Feb 28th 2012, 9:48 PM

# Brothers in Arms

Corner men: Tipp stars to join Macklin at training camp

Eoin Kelly and the recently retired Lar Corbett will join Matthew Macklin in New York ahead of his St Patrick’s Day world title fight.

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Feb 23rd 2012, 5:27 PM

# Brawl

Monaco prince hospitalised after brawl in New York bar

The 24-year-old prince, the son of Princess Caroline of Monaco, was briefly hospitalised after the brawl.

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Feb 21st 2012, 8:44 AM

# How Much??

New York mother launches $900 trillion lawsuit against city

Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, wants €682 trillion from the city, claiming her two sons were wrongfully removed from her care.

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Feb 10th 2012, 3:49 PM

# Tragedy

Woman killed in freak lift accident in New York

The woman’s leg became caught in the closing doors of the lift, which then dragged her into the shaft.

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Dec 14th 2011, 6:21 PM

# New York

One dead, four injured after helicopter crashes into New York's East River

Local camera crews filmed dramatic scenes as all but one of the passengers on board a private helicopter were rescued.

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Oct 4th 2011, 10:16 PM

# Irene

In Pictures: the aftermath of Hurricane Irene

Residents return to their homes along the east coast as New York dealt with the effects of the tropical storm.

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Aug 28th 2011, 7:18 PM

# The Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Friday

All the day’s news: Dublin Fire Brigade unions head for the LRC, Anglo’s last ever accounts, New York prepares for evacuation, and more success for Shamrock Rovers and Conor Niland…

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Aug 26th 2011, 7:58 PM