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1.21 Gigawhat? Delorean Taxis Hit New York
Roads? Where we're going we don't needs roads. We aren't going anywhere in these New York taxis that look like Deloreans from the Back to the Future movies.
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Watch Time-Lapse Video Of Sandy Hitting New York [VIDEO]
November 1, 2012 This time-lapse video shows the storm beginning to hit right up until power goes out across New York City.
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FBI Foils Plot to Bomb Federal Reserve Building in New York
A man drove from Long Island, New York, into Lower Manhattan earlier today in a van he thought was filled with explosives. He parked the van close to the Federal Reserve building, just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and planned to detonate it using a cell phone from a nearby hotel.
The explosives, however, were fake.
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Modern Day Prospector Finds Gold Rush in ‘Them New York City Streets’ [VIDEO]
San Francisco, 1849. Alaska, 1897. New York City, 2011? Is there a new gold rush in the Big Apple?
There is for Queens native Raffi Stepanian, who literally struck gold after discovering he could make up to $300 a day by ‘mining’ the sidewalks in Manhattan’s Diamond District for the tiny bits of gold, platinum and rare gems that fall from the clothes of workers when they leave their shops.
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What Hurricaine Irene Could Do To New York This Weekend As It Targets Heavily Populated Urban Centers
August 26, 2011 The East Coast continues to brace itself for a weekend that could lead to major headaches in the wake of this storm.
Imagine a vulnerable island, parts of it man-made, with towering buildings and lots of people crammed into small spaces. Now
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Lightning Strikes New York’s Empire State Building Three Times [VIDEOS]
There was a major thunderstorm that raged through New York City on Tuesday night. The rain came pouring down and the thunder slammed loudly throughout the night.
A lot of dogs were hiding under beds, children were scared, and adults were pretending not to be. The storm was so crazy that New York's most famous landmark, The Empire State Building, was struck by lightning at least three times -- and even cooler than that, it was caught on video!
Watch it happen, along with nine more lightning-strike videos of famous buildings after the jump.