The NYPD Adds Smartphones to Toolbelt
Police enter the tech world, using Nokia phones to prevent and respond to domestic violence.
Place: Manhattan
Civic Tech Community Navigates New Era
Local tech leaders worry about net neutrality and potential new government databases.
New Traffic Alert Program Strives for Safer Streets
The city hopes a new program to install smart devices on New York streets will help prevent accidents and traffic fatalities.
Lowline Lab Goes Green Underground
New York's next major park will be built underground.
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Brooklyn Veteran Recalls Pearl Harbor
"All hell broke loose," Clark J. Simmons, of Sheepshead Bay, remembered 75 years after the "Day of Infamy."
Lights, Trains and Other Signs of the Season
It's beginning to look a lot like the holidays, everywhere you go. Our reporters offer seasonal dispatches from Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
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New Yorkers Tied by Caribbean and by Art
The "Borinqueya: An Evolving Travesy" exhibition demonstrates the relationship between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the Big Apple.
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A Window into Macy’s Holiday Magic
The department store's annnual window displays – this year's theme: "Tech Miracle on 34th Street" – were hatched in a Red Hook warehouse.