The New York City Marathon is Sunday with more than 50,000 runners from over 150 countries expected to start the race.

New York’s mayor is urging residents to take shorter showers, fix leaky faucets and otherwise conserve water.

The men formerly known as the Central Park Five before they were exonerated are suing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The CEO of activism organization Global Citizen says the sense of urgency that younger generations bring to solving international challenges needs to be nurtured in the rest of the world.

The closing ceremony for the Paris Olympics will bring out several stars: Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to perform.

Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh will help reopen the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater in Central Park in a free production of “Twelfth Night.”.

The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon.

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from New York City’s Central Park Zoo and became one of the city’s most beloved celebrities as he flew around Manhattan, has died.

Marin Alsop will become principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra next season, succeeding Nathalie Stutzmann.

Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen before being apprehended by the United States Navy.

A man stabbed a pit bull to death in New York City’s Central Park after a verbal dispute with the dog’s owner.

Legendary British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens will release a new album of original songs this summer.

An owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo after someone damaged his cage has become New York City’s latest avian celebrity.

An entryway to Central Park has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger.

Metallica is stopping in Detroit to play two shows in November of next year while on their M72 World Tour.

The 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival, which included performances from Metallica, Mariah Carey and Usher, generated more than $2.4 billion in commitments to fight extreme poverty and disease.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the both the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard T.

One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline.

March marks Women’s History Month, and the world has spent the past few weeks highlighting and remembering some of the most famous achievements by women throughout the course of history.

A limited field of 33,000 runners will jog off the Verrazzano Bridge and wind its way toward Central Park on Sunday as the New York City Marathon returns for its 50th edition after being wiped out in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic.

Hugh Evans started his fight against extreme poverty by mobilizing his friends when he was growing up in Australia.

This time, Barry Manilow didn’t make it through the rain.

A superstar-laden Central Park concert meant to celebrate New York City’s recovery from the coronavirus was cut short because of severe weather as Hurricane Henri approached.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson will headline an August concert in Central Park marking the city’s comeback from the coronavirus pandemic.

FILE - This May 25, 2020 file image, taken from video provided by Christian Cooper, shows Amy Cooper with her dog calling police at Central Park in New York. There is no relation between Christian Cooper and Amy Cooper. AdIlluzzi said that when officers arrived, Christian Cooper was gone and Amy Cooper admitted he hadn't tried to assault her. Amy Cooper also warned him she would summon police unless he stopped recording. “There’s an African American man, I’m in Central Park, he is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.

Photos, flowers, and candles have been left at Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park to remember John Lennon, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. The rock star and former Beatle was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by a fan on Dec. 8, 1980. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK – Fans remembered John Lennon with flowers, candles and songs Tuesday, the 40th anniversary of the former Beatle's death after being shot outside his New York City apartment building. It was Dec. 8, 1980, when the world-famous musician was with his wife, Yoko Ono, and was shot by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota apartments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. After 40 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him," Ono said, referring to Lennon's two sons.

NEW YORK – One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. The five Black and Latino teens were coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989. Ken Burns made a documentary about them and Ava DuVernay directed a Netflix series. “One of the most powerful lessons I learned while being wrongfully incarcerated was that instead of going through something, I was going to grow through something," Salaam said in a statement. “Punching the Air,” co-written by Ibi Zoboi, came out in September.

NEW YORK – A New York man was arrested Saturday in connection with an unprovoked assault against Rick Moranis that occurred as the 67-year-old actor was walking near Central Park in October. New York City police said 35-year-old Marquis Ventura, whom authorities listed as homeless, was arrested Saturday afternoon. It wasn't known if Ventura had retained an attorney who could comment. Video released by police showed a man wearing a black “I (heart) NY” sweatshirt hit Moranis with a sucker punch and knock him to the ground. Police didn't identify Moranis at the time, but Moranis's representative, Troy Bailey, confirmed the actor had been attacked.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Actor Rick Moranis was sucker punched by an unknown assailant while walking Thursday on a sidewalk near New York’s Central Park, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. The attack happened just a few blocks from the Central Park West apartment building where Moranis' character lived in the movie. 🚨WANTED🚨for ASSAULT October 1, 2020 at 7:24 AM, on Central Park West in the vicinity of West 70 St Manhattan. Police describe the incident as a “random unprovoked assault.”Moranis was attacked while walking south on Central Park West. Moranis suffered back, hip, neck and head pain, though the full extent of his injuries was not clear, the official said.

NEW YORK – Actor Rick Moranis was sucker punched by an unknown assailant while walking Thursday on a sidewalk near New York's Central Park, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. The attack happened just a few blocks from the Central Park West apartment building where Moranis' character lived in the movie. Moranis’ representative Troy Bailey said in a written statement Friday: “Rick Moranis was assaulted on the Upper West Side yesterday. Police describe the incident as a “random unprovoked assault.”Moranis was attacked while walking south on Central Park West. Moranis suffered back, hip, neck and head pain, though the full extent of his injuries was not clear, the official said.

Jaya Shri, 13, , right stands with friends at the unveiling of a new statue honoring suffragettes in Central Park on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. bronze statue depicting womens rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in Central Park on Wednesday. It's the 167-year-old parks first monument honoring real historical women as opposed to fictional heroines like Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeares Juliet. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)NEW YORK A bronze statue depicting womens rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in Central Park on Wednesday, becoming the 167-year-old parks first monument honoring historical heroines, as opposed to fictional female characters like Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeares Juliet. The commission from Monumental Women, a nonprofit that formed in 2014 to raise funds for a suffragist statue in Central Park, originally included just Stanton and Anthony, two white leaders of the fight for women's equality. Truth, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to campaign for abolition as well as women's rights, was a late addition.

Parent Mirna Herrera kneels with her daughters Liliana, 15, and Alexandra, 16 at the Central Park memorial for the Saugus High School victims in Santa Clarita, Calif., Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Investigators said Friday they have yet to find a diary, manifesto or note that would explain why a boy killed two students outside his Southern California high school on his 16th birthday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)SANTA CLARITA, CA A candlelight vigil is planned Sunday evening to remember two students shot and killed by a classmate at his Southern California high school as investigators try to determine what prompted the deadly attack that left three other teens wounded. Saugus High School will remain closed until Dec. 2 but counselors will be available to help students cope with their grief, said school district officials in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Meanwhile authorities were investigating online threats against schools in and around the Santa Clarita, sheriffs officials said Sunday.

Hannah Schooping-Gutierrez, center, a student at Saugus High School, is comforted by her boyfriend Declan Sheridan, at right, a student at nearby Valencia High School during a vigil at Central Park in the aftermath of a shooting at Saugus Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, in Santa Clarita, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head on his 16th birthday, authorities said. The gunfire began around 7:30 a.m. at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the shooter was a student at the school but did not identify him. Saugus Highs security is provided by one unarmed sheriffs deputy and nine campus supervisors who act as guards, said to Collyn Nielson, chief administrative officer for the William S. Hart Union High School District. In speaking with staff and hearing reports, students reported they knew what to do and immediately went into lockdown mode, he said.

Manuela Schar, of Switzerland, crosses the finish line to win the pro wheelchair women's division of the New York City Marathon, in New York's Central Park, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK, NY Manuela Schr of Switzerland has won her third straight women's wheelchair title at the New York City Marathon, giving her eight consecutive marathon major victories. Daniel Romanchuk of the United States repeated as men's wheelchair champion in another tight finish over Switzerland's Marcel Hug. Hug was one second behind for a second straight year, and Germany's David Weir and American Aaron Pike were also within 10 seconds. Hug took the New York title in 2016 and 2017.

Each day this week, dozens of daily high-temperature records have been set in the eastern half of the country. From Indianapolis to New Orleans, from New York City to Atlanta, temperatures are holding above 90 degrees Fahrenheit into the early days of autumn. Unusual weather has made headlines this yearThis lingering U.S. heat follows other sweltering systems that have baked the Northern Hemisphere this year. Europe dealt with a dangerous heat wave in August. Meanwhile, a late September storm brought record-breaking snow to Montana.

Hungry Taylor Swift fans up early to see the singer's concert in New York's Central Park got some tasty 'za from none other than Papa Swift. Meet Ally's Army, the young women in pink supporting slain Ole Miss college student Ally Kostial. And did Prince William and Kate Middleton fly a budget airline to send a message to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry? For more Inside Edition stories, tune in to today's show. RELATED STORIESPet Sitter Throws 10-Week-Old Puppy to Ground in Shocking VideoMeet Ally's Army, the Young Women in Pink Supporting Slain Ole Miss StudentNew Zealand Speaker Feeds and Rocks Baby During Debate in Parliament

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