ONE of the crucial decisions before visiting the city that allegedly never sleeps is where to lay your head.

Waters’ knee injury was bad enough but the sorry tale of how his body has angrily rejected the screws placed in his knee to keep it together is the epitome of frustration.

The complex where the apartment is located is so exclusive actresses and socialites have been refused permission to move into the building.

It’s no surprise that the dominance of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 would overshadow every other story that emerged out of those iconic pre-World War II Games.

IN THE US something very interesting is happening, it’s virtually a grassroots revolution.

I was extremely confident last summer that when, in this column, I revealed my return to hurling after a 15-year absence, I would be opening myself up to an onslaught of well deserved ridicule.

At least 57 people were injured, 11 seriously, when a commuter ferry struck a dock in New York City’s financial district during the morning rush-hour.

All in all, it hasn’t been a bad weekend for boxing Stateside.

A good friend lives on Dean Street and has watched with dread as this stadium has gradually risen almost literally on her doorstep.

The New York melting pot was overflowing in Lower Manhattan yesterday morning, all manner of people brought there by their champion football team.

A helicopter carrying five people on a private tour for a birthday celebration crashed into the East River in New York shortly after take-off yesterday, killing a British woman and injuring three others.

A WOMAN died and three others, believed to be British tourists, were seriously injured after a helicopter crash in New York yesterday.

A helicopter with five people aboard crashed into New York City’s East River today after taking off from a launch pad on the riverbank, killing a woman and seriously injuring at least two other people.

Irene has weakened to a tropical storm as it raced across New York City, leaving behind a stunned east coast where at least nine people died, severe flooding was widespread and four million homes were without power.

Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard today by lashing the North Carolina coast with wind as strong as 115 mph and pounding shoreline homes with waves.

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WHEN you are passionate about sport, seeing any action live is a treat. When you witness history being made in the process, it is something to cherish.

Security was stepped up at the United Nations headquarters in New York today as a precaution following a bomb threat, a spokesman said.

South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon took the reins of the UN today as the world body's eighth secretary-general.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

A single-engine plane crashed into a high-rise building on New York’s Upper East Side high-rise today, killing four people, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers’ nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack.

What should have been a routine ride across New York’s East River became an hours-long ordeal after what US authorities described as a power failure left two cable cars carrying almost 70 people dangling hundreds of feet in the air.

Dozens of people in two cable cars are hanging hundreds of feet above New York’s East River today, hours after the system lost power because of a mechanical problem.

New York has gone into security lockdown as it prepares for the United Nations summit, the biggest meeting of world leaders in history.

A helicopter crashed this afternoon in New York’s East River south of the United Nations, the second helicopter accident in four days in the waters off Manhattan, authorities said.

Nicole Kidman turned heads at the United Nations in New York last night.

Actor-writer Spalding Gray, who laid bare his life in a series of acclaimed monologues like Swimming to Cambodia and made memorable appearances in such films as The Paper, has been found dead two months after he walked out of his Manhattan apartment and disappeared.

IT WAS miserable yesterday in Manhattan. The rain teemed down all day with no sign of relenting. The streets of the Upper East Side were gridlocked.

In Times Square, the crossroads of the world, all the neon and bright lights were impossibly dark.

FORMER Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his longtime companion tied the knot on Saturday night in a 15-minute ceremony before 400 guests gathered on the lawn outside Gracie Mansion.

A New York appeals court has upheld a ruling that bars Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s girlfriend from visiting Gracie Mansion, his official residence, while his children live there.

New York has declared Wall Street open for business, even as thick smoke and dust linger in the air and rescue crews continue searching a mountain of rubble.