The National Park Service sent out requests to study if the crown could be safely reopened, documents show.

Mr. Tygiel was a historian and self-confessed baseball nut whose Brooklyn upbringing inspired his highly regarded scholarship on Jackie Robinson.

The city is moving the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks display from Manhattan to Brooklyn this year for a simple reason: TV.

Phillip R. Bennett was sentenced for a financial cover-up that brought down one of the world’s largest commodities brokerages.

The Russian government sought to make Bank of New York Mellon liable for $22.5 billion in damages for a money-laundering scandal that helped undermine Russia’s economy.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided not to reappoint the official who has coordinated health programs for ground zero workers, Congressional aides who spoke with him said.

In the 1960s and ’70s, Mr. Remer pushed the agency in grittier, more urgent directions, including addressing the problems of young people convicted of minor crimes.

Women who once cleaned septic tanks in India for a living took a turn as models at a fashion show at the United Nations.

Flags do not fly everywhere in New York as they once did, but does that mean New Yorkers care less for their country than they used to? Hard to imagine.

Lampposts up and down the Avenue of the Americas were once festooned with round signs showing the national seals of all the nations in the Western Hemisphere, but almost all the signs are gone now.