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The article reports on the closure of the BP gas station located at the corner of Lafayette and East Houston Streets in SoHo in Manhattan, New York City, and discusses the impact of the closure on taxicab drivers and the decline in the number of gas stations in the city that are used by the public.

The article reports on the effects of the intensive track repairs at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, New York as it causes minimal problems on the part of the commuters.

The article reports on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day float parade organized by department store chain Macy's Inc. in Manhattan, New York City.

The article reports on the sense of abandonment felt by some residents in still-darkened areas of New York City, including the Rockaways peninsula, and other areas in the U.S., that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. It notes the residents voiced their frustrations to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg when he visited Rockaways on November 3, 2012. They could not believe that Manhattan got its power back, while they were struggling to rebuild their lives without electricity and gas.

The Manhattan district attorney's office plans on Friday to announce the indictment of 55 people who it said stole over $2 million as part of a cybercrime ring. Some of the ring's major targets were donors to UJA-Federation of New York, including some of the city's top philanthropists, whose financial information was stolen by an employee of the nonprofit organization, according to a person with direct knowledge of the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S just past noon on a Tuesday in late October, and Christine Mortimer Biddle is sequestered on a tuffet in a pastel pink powder room at the Metropolitan Club on the Upper East Side, her Hermes bag by her feet and a laptop on her knees. In the next room, under the frescoed ceiling, more than 300 heads bend over plates of pan-roasted cod with truffle oil-dressed orzo, or toss back with peals of studied mirth, to reveal many a strand of pearls. The creme de la creme of Manhattan society came out in force for the afternoon's event, a luncheon for the Horticultural Society of New York, renowned for both its annual flower show and its charitable work for the rehabilitation of prisoners on Rikers Island and other causes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's illegal to smoke inside the State Supreme Court building at 60 Centre Street in Manhattan. But for the Vanity Fair bash held on the courthouse's portico on Wednesday night in celebration of the Tribeca Film Festival, there was apparently no problem with bartenders offering free packs of Natural American Spirit cigarettes. Some guests puffed away, stubbing them out in ashtrays on the porch. When Robert De Niro ascended that porch, he was accosted by identically dressed twin sisters who call themselves Dracula's Girls, Gabriela and Mihaela Modorcea, and who claim Transylvanian roots. Like mariachis in a Mexican restaurant, the aspiring performers sang to anyone who would listen. Nocturnalist's correspondent even got a private concert. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little hot dogs were passed around on platters while real dogs were petted on the red carpet. At the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' young benefactors' gala on Thursday night, the four-footed mingled with the well heeled. Behind a rope line flanked with photographers on the West Side Highway in Chelsea, celebrities mugged while kneeling to pet pooches. When the actor Josh Lucas, in a Pugs for Obama T-shirt, knelt to ruffle the floppy ears of a motley shelter dog of indeterminate parentage, young women in a 10-foot radius seemed to fight back a collective swoon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sometimes in a city as nonstop as Manhattan, a night out requires little more than stepping out of the house and looking around. It was 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, but it seemed as packed as at midday, dotted with people who played music, conversed, cuddled or just watched as others transformed the park into an extension of their living rooms. ''It's an ongoing carnival -- it's a spectacular spectacle, an event of its own accord,'' said Alexander Sun, who travels every evening from Borough Park, Brooklyn, to spend the waning hours in Washington Square Park, where he is a fixture. ''It's an amazing kaleidoscope of humanity.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most people visiting the southern tip of Manhattan are on their way somewhere else, whether they are commuters hopping on or off the Staten Island Ferry, or tourists lining up for cruise tickets to Ellis Island or the Statue of Liberty. But Battery Park is worth more than a hurry-through. Dotted with more than 20 monuments, it has manicured lawns and ornamental gardens that rival Central Park's. At its fringes are a wealth of museums, and all is set at the confluence of two rivers, the Hudson and the East. 1 P.M. Hop off the No. 1 train at South Ferry and check out the park's revolving cast of street performers, who include a good number of green-painted performance artists imitating Lady Liberty. They will pose stock-still on their stands, but if you walk by without contributing to their coffers, you might hear a reprimand bleated from a kazoo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the state of mind of the people of New York City after the bombings in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York on September 17, 2016. According to the article different people reacted to the bombing in different ways which included some people making inquiries about the incident while others were scared to leave their apartments while some were reminded about the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

New York City on Tuesday reopened the park in Lower Manhattan where the Occupy Wall Street movement was born not long after a judge upheld the city's move to clear the park and bar the protesters from bringing back their tents or sleeping overnight. The police opened the gates to Zuccotti Park just after darkness fell and let in a single-file line of people as a crowd surrounded the park. Some chanted ''Let us in. Let us in.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]