Within hours of Friday's wild gun battle near the Empire State Building, New York City's top leaders sought to reassure legions of tourists and the city's 8.3 million residents.
New York police on Sunday identified the man fatally wounded the day earlier by officers a short walk from Manhattan's Times Square as a 51-year-old from nearby Long Island.
A man who allegedly threatened police officers with a knife was shot and fatally wounded Saturday afternoon near Times Square in Manhattan, authorities said.
A Pakistani court has acquitted four men accused of taking part in a botched 2010 plot to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square.
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CNN's special salute to two New York City vendors who alerted police and helped avert the Times Square bombing.
One of the street vendors who alerted police to a smoking vehicle in Times Square that was later found to be carrying explosives says he's planning to run for Congress.
Security in Times Square will be the priority for New York Police Department this weekend as crowds pack the streets to herald the New Year.
Protesters upset about corporate greed rallied in New York's Times Square Saturday night, marking the 29th day of a movement that is tapping into popular frustrations about income disparities and an ailing U.S. economy.
Police briefly shut down a portion of New York City's Times Square to traffic Tuesday as they investigated a suspicious package left aboard an MTA bus, authorities said.
Obvious observation number one: Judging by the high response rate of our last two columns on online dating, it sure seems like a lot of you out there are looking for love.
Upon the news of Osama bin Laden's death, crowds gather at Times Square in New York to cheer and celebrate.
An estimated 1 million people marked the passing of one year and the beginning of another in New York's Times Square with the descent of an iconic ball.
Hundreds of thousands of revelers pack Times Square for the annual New Year's ball drop.
Just as it has happened for more than a century as the old year ticks toward history, a large crowd will gather Friday night in New York's Times Square to mark the old and the new with the descent of an iconic ball.
From radiation detectors to backpack bans, the NYPD gears up for New Year's Eve at Times Square. Mary Snow has more.
Without permission to do the stunt in Times Square, the Jersey Shore star will ring in 2011 in Seaside Heights, N.J.
Ahead of the annual New Year's Eve celebration, wireless provider AT&T says it will expand a Wi-Fi hotspot in New York City's Times Square.
Faisal Shahzad is sentenced to life after trying to blow up a car in New York's Times Square.
Prosecutors say Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, carefully selected his location as a highly populated target and intended to strike again if he wasn't caught the first time.
The FBI recreated and detonated the bomb Faisal Shahzad attempted to use for the August Times Square incident.
Three Pakistani men linked to Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty to the botched Times Square terror attack, were arrested and have confessed before a judge, authorities said Wednesday.
A 25-screen movie theater in New York's bustling Times Square is the latest city business to shut down temporarily as it battles a bedbug infestation.
A man identified as al Qaeda's No. 2 official issued a eulogy for a slain comrade and made reference to a few hot-button events in recent months: the botched Times Square car bombing, the Israeli commando flotilla strike and the proposed burqa ban in France.
The man who pleaded guilty in the failed Times Square car bombing said before the incident that the strike would be a "revenge attack," according to an airing Wednesday on an Arabic-language TV network.
The State Department intends to designate the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) as a "foreign terrorist organization" after the suspect charged in the failed Times Square bombing admitted to being trained by the group, two senior officials tell CNN.
Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, entered pleas of guilty Monday in federal court to all 10 counts he was facing.
A federal grand jury in New York on Thursday indicted a suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt on 10 counts, some of which carry a mandatory life sentence.
The man accused of trying to set off a bomb in New York's Times Square is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday.
CNN's Susan Candiotti talks with members of New York's elite bomb squad called in during the Times Square bomb scare.
Another person has been taken into custody in Pakistan in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, a senior intelligence official said Thursday.
Pakistani officials have detained an 11th person in connection with the investigation into the failed May car bombing of New York's Times Square, a Pakistani intelligence source told CNN Wednesday.
The father of a man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt case vehemently denied that his son had anything to do with the plot.
Pakistani authorities have arrested the son of a prominent catering company owner in connection with the attempted Times Square bombing case, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday.
Top U.S. security officials met their Pakistani counterparts Wednesday to discuss the attempted Times Square bombing and the prevention of future terrorist attacks.
Faisal Shahzad makes his first court appearance to face a handful of charges. CNN's Susan Candiotti reports.
The man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square considered other targets in and around New York before the failed attack, an investigator said.
CNN's Jim Acosta reports on an FBI raid carried out in connection with the alleged Time Square bomb plot.
Three men picked up in New England in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing are being held on immigration charges and could appear in court early next week, a federal law enforcement source said.
Three people from Pakistan were taken into custody Thursday in raids in the Northeast by federal agents in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing, sources close to the investigation said.
GOP Rep. Peter Hoekstra talks about the investigation into the failed Times Square bombing.
The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee says he doesn't yet see the evidence to support Obama administration claims that the Times Square bombing suspect was working on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban.
CNN's Nic Robertson traces Faisal Shahzad back to Karachi and explains why the city is such a hot place for the Taliban.
The man charged in the failed Times Square bombing was working with the Taliban movement in Pakistan, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.
In the hours following the Times Square car-bombing attempt, some in the media -- as well as some public officials -- insisted we shouldn't rush to judgment about the identity or motives of the person responsible for the failed attack. He could be, they insisted, just a homegrown nut job.
NYPD remove a suspicious package from Times Square after the area was cleared following a partial evacuation.
A suspicious package in Times Square prompted an evacuation and raised alarms in a jittery city Friday afternoon until authorities determined it was a false alarm.
A suspicious package in Times Square prompted an evacuation and raised alarms in a jittery city Friday afternoon until authorities determined it was a false alarm.
Americans are convulsed, for today, by the chilling story of a naturalized American who allegedly plotted the murder of innocents in Times Square. Similar stories last fall -- of an Afghan-American from Denver who conspired with colleagues in New York, of a Pakistani-American from Chicago who was affiliated with the Mumbai murderers -- also gripped this country.
It's "business as usual" in New York City, despite the thwarted terrorist attack in the heart of Manhattan this weekend.
The Pakistani-American suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt has a Karachi identification card, a document that shows Pakistani residency, and the suspect's family is from northwestern Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CNN.
The buyer of the sport-utility vehicle used in a failed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square is considered a potential suspect in the case, a law enforcement source said Monday.
NYPD surveillance video from Times Square shows a man changing shirts before walking away.
Law enforcement officials are examining surveillance video from the Times Square area showing a man changing his shirt around the time of the bomb scare Saturday night, New York's police commissioner said Sunday.
A billboard featuring President Obama that was erected three days ago will be coming down, according to a spokesman for the company that paid for the outdoor ad in Times Square.
Ringing in 2010 from Australia to London: New Year's celebrations around the world.
At least 1 million people marked the passing of another year at the iconic ball drop in New York's Times Square, despite an early morning dusting of snow and late-night freezing rain.
At least 1 million people marked the passing of another year at the iconic ball drop in New York's Times Square, despite an early morning dusting of snow and late-night freezing rain.
Police concluded that a suspicious white van parked on Times Square posed no threat and reopened the flow of traffic that had temporarily been interrupted Wednesday.
A shootout Thursday between a police officer and a street peddler in Times Square -- crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists -- left the suspect dead but no one else harmed, New York police said.
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Ball drop NYC
updated: Thu Jan 01 2009 10:07:00
The time honored tradition of the ball drop in Times Square, NY.
Strong winds, frigid temperatures and blowing snow froze celebrators from around the world as they ushered in 2009 in New York's Times Square on Wednesday night.
Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo and Kellie Pickler will also join hosts Ryan Seacrest and Fergie for New Year's Eve
CNN's Kate Bolduan looks at new information into the bombing at Times Square.
The New York Police Department has released photos of a bicycle and a suspect in Thursday's Times Square recruitment center bombing.
Investigators trying to track down the person who set off a small bomb in front of a military recruitment center in Times Square have dismissed one lead and are casting doubt on another.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly talks to CNN about the lastest developments in the Time Square probe.
Letters claiming responsibility for the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square arrived in the Washington offices of several members of Congress on Thursday, just hours after the blast, authorities said.
A small but potentially fatal blast in Times Square snarls traffic and has eerie similarities to two previous unsolved attacks
Avoid the mile-long lines at the Times Square TKTS booth by buying discounted Broadway tickets using one of these eight approaches.
New Year 2008updated: Tue Jan 01 2008 08:55:00
CNN's Anderson Cooper and comedian Kathy Griffin bring in the New Year with the traditional ball drop in New York.
New York celebrates the centennial of its most famous New Year's tradition Monday, as organizers of the Times Square ball drop have given the crystal globe an environmental makeover.
CNN's Alan Chernoff goes behind the scenes as Times Square gets ready for a huge crowd and a high-tech show.
As a snowstorm swept New York City last week, FSB joined members of the Writer's Guild of America East (WGAE) gathered to protest in Times Square, where savvy entrepreneurs took advantage of the striking writers' congregation to get exposure for products aimed at alleviating the miseries of extended stretches in the frozen outdoors.
Broadway stagehands hit the picket lines, closing all but eight Broadway shows. CNN's Jim Acosta reports
A record 1 million revelers are expected to pack Times Square to ring in 2007, the Times Square Alliance said Sunday.
Small waves, one after the other, lap the shore. Two Sri Lankan villagers walk along the water's edge, searching for bodies washed up by the tide. They come every morning, leave without answers. Some days they find nothing. Today there's a torn shoe and a piece of broken fence.
Money Magazine: 05 Family Travelupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 16:42:00
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Money Magazine: 05 Family Travelupdated: Thu Sep 01 2005 00:01:00
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Law enforcement officials are using chemical sensors to test air quality at Times Square in advance of Friday night's New Year's Eve celebration.
The focus of security concerns shifted coasts Thursday from Times Square's confetti-filled atmosphere at midnight to the chilly but flowery Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, where police officials said they expected no damper on the day's festivities, despite the nationwide orange terror alert.
Not everyone is buying the IRS' less oppressive image. Dozens of Asian-American entrepreneurs in Los Angeles say the IRS has unfairly targeted them for audits and has selectively charged an "ozone ...
Money Magazine: Holiday Cheerupdated: Wed Dec 01 1999 00:01:00
$98 Waterford's crystal Times Square Collection paperweight is a replica of the ball that will drop at midnight for the first time this New Year's Eve. Click on www.waterford-usa.com for dealers.
Fortune: HUMAN BILLBOARDSupdated: Mon Oct 14 1996 00:01:00
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