Karen O says filming the single on the skyscraper’s 86th-floor viewing platform was an "iconic moment".
Mpho Moshe Matheolane wonders if a new bicycle sharing programme launched in New York could work in South Africa.
While in New York, Mpho Moshe Matheolane ponders what makes a city and how one can find the "simpler times" that such places struggle to offer.
Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday’s evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital.
There are many ways to see New York, but how about walking from JFK Airport all the way to Harlem?
For hundreds of thousands of workers in New York, the chaos wrought by superstorm Sandy turned the trip to and from work into a gruelling adventure.
The New York Marathon has been cancelled following concerns the event will divert resources needed to amend the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy.
South Africans may complain often and loudly, but that is far better than Americans’ paralysis, writes Sisonke Msimang.
New York authorities have ordered subways, trains and buses to close and called for the evacuation of 375 000 people ahead of Hurricane Sandy.
Lower Manhattan has blossomed from tragedy into tourist magnet in the years since the September 11, 2001 attacks. But there also have been downsides.
Although not a hub for expats in the way Toronto, Perth, Auckland, and London are, the Big Apple has acquired several South African restaurants.
Edvard Munch’s painting <em>The Scream</em> has sold for $120-million, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.
New York police arrested protesters celebrating the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street near the stock exchange over the weekend.
As Republicans feud, President Barack Obama this week takes his re-election blueprint of economic justice, direct and unfiltered, to the voters.
The DA says Lindiwe Sisulu must take full responsibility for the use of two back-up aircraft to shadow Jacob Zuma’s jet to the United States.
People are living longer and in better health
than ever, which means they’re still up for it.
Former <em>News of the World</em> editor, Colin Myler, has taken over at the <em>New York Daily News</em>.
Piers Morgan’ testimony before a British panel looking into media ethics was big news in the UK, but made little splash in the US.
Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda will be elected the ICC’s chief prosecutor as the hunt for war criminals and genocidal masterminds becomes more political.
New York police have evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park in the city’s financial district, two months after they set up camp.
New York police have begun clearing Zuccotti park in the city’s financial district, where Occupy Wall Street protesters have camped for two months.
New York’s billionaire mayor has lashed out at Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them despicable after reports of self-policing in the movement.
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/ 14 October 2011
Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed a pre-dawn show of strength to prevent their eviction from the symbolic Manhattan square.
‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters have slammed New York police, who they claim penned them in on the road before swooping in to make mass arrests.
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/ 18 September 2011
The contrasting fortunes of New York’s South Bronx and Upper East Side highlight a growing gap between rich and poor.
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/ 9 September 2011
New York police were out in force on Friday in response to intelligence about a car bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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/ 7 September 2011
Frank Lione had cancelled his NYPD shift on September 11 — but he ended up ferrying body parts from Ground Zero in the small hours.
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/ 7 September 2011
After losing her brother, Edie Lutnick found that caring for others helped her to heal.
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/ 7 September 2011
"I saw a mushroom cloud. I was thinking nukes": a civilian employee recalls the moment American Airlines Flight 77 smashed into the Pentagon.
The rain tapered off, the sun began to come out of hiding and then with a sudden ferocity, dirty sea water poured into the New York coastline.
Hurricane Irene battered New York with ferocious winds and driving rain early on Sunday, shutting down the US financial capital.
Hurricane Irene closed in on New York on Saturday, shutting down the city, as millions of Americans on the East Coast hunkered down.