A man fatally shot a former colleague near the Empire State Building and then was killed by police in a gun battle that wounded nine bystanders outside one of New York’s most popular landmarks.

A US man accused of becoming an al-Qaida agent discussed bombing New York cinemas, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the Stock Exchange before settling on the city’s subways, a court heard today.

A woman has been killed in a freak lift accident at a New York office building.

The man who planted a car bomb in New York’s Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks later, US prosecutors said.

Torrential rain blamed for at least one death flooded subways and railway lines and delayed flights at New York’s three major airports today.

One person has died in hospital after an underground steam pipe explosion tore through a New York street.

A 'volcano-like' underground steam explosion tore through a New York street during rush hour, causing panic and injuries.

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump launched New York’s Tartan Week celebrations today.

New York police searched trucks, blocked streets and posted machine-gun carrying officers outside financial landmarks a day after the government’s warning that terrorists might target the buildings with bombs.

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