After a night of heavy rains, NYPD scuba divers were expected to go back into the waters between Queens and Roosevelt Island ...

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“Let us look to America,” Tocqueville wrote, “not in order to make a servile copy of the institutions that she has ...

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Jawanza James Williams was a 30-year-old racial justice organizer when protests broke out five years ago in New York City and ...

The statue is a replica of a work by French sculptor Louis Joseph Daumas (1801–1887) dating to 1862. The original is in Buenos Aires in a more elaborate setting. In 1950 the City of Buenos Aires gave ...