Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

Many Irish in the US would love to return for Christmas, but some can’t risk it, writes John Riordan in New York

Gay couples cheered by supporters have begun marrying in New York City on the first day same-sex weddings are legal in the Empire State.

Green will be seen in the sky-line of New York for the day.

WELL, that’s easy for Tom Waits or Bruce Springsteen to say.

Worried tenants of the Empire State Building are quitting the skyscraper over fears it may be a terrorist target, it was reported today.