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New York Firebombing Prompts Solidarity with Muslims Authorities suspect that a man arrested in connection with a series of firebombings against Muslim and Hindu targets in New York may have acted out of revenge after being thrown out of a neighborho...
By Michael Gutkin, Alona Cherkassky New York 30 June 2006 Watch Homeless Report Father Vadim Arefyev VOA's Russian Service introduced us to Father Vadim two years ago. He opened the first shelter for homeless Russians in Brooklyn, New York. VOA rece...
By Amanda Cassandra New York 31 July 2006 The music of Bach and Beethoven is heard all over the world, often in elegant and historical buildings. But in New York, classical music fans can listen in an unconventional music venue on the East River. Ba...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 12 July 2006 The world's most expensive painting is now on exhibit in New York's Neue Galerie. The head of the small museum purchased the exotic Gustav Klimt painting less than one month ago for what experts say is a re...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 30 May 2006 watch Fleet Week report Since 1984, the U.S. Navy has made New York City one of its largest port calls in the days leading up to the U.S. holiday of Memorial Day, which honors those who have died defending...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 16 May 2006 The Gilbert Court, in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library One of New York's great cultural treasures has reopened after a three-year renovation. The Morgan Lib...
By Gini Sikes New York 21 March 2006 Photogragh in exhibit by William Wegman At an unusual art exhibit, a dog in a blonde wig lounges by a pool wearing a skimpy leopard-skin bikini. Another lies on a...
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 10 March 2006 watch NY Stock Exchange report New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange closed the book on more than 200 years of tradition this week by selling...
By Gini Sikes New York 02 February 2006 New York City school children are celebrating Black History Month with an exhibit of portraits of Nelson Mandela at the landmark Rockefeller Center. The show's...