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Sound the trumpets. The world's most famous Christmas Tree has been chosen to light up Rockefeller Center this holiday season.

Wow. You've gotta see these pictures as a double rainbow appeared over New York City early Monday evening on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Metallica treated a small group of lucky New York City fans to a special intimate concert at Webster Hall last night.

On his way to a radio show appearance, Dave Navarro got stuck in an elevator and had to be rescued by firefighters.

Yesterday was the 97th annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, held on the Fourth of July in Coney Island. Joey Chestnut managed to not only win the championship title for the seventh straight year, he also set a new world record by eating 69 hot dogs in just ten minutes.

In July of 2008, the carcass of a bloated, chimera-like animal washed ashore in Long Island. The ‘Montauk Monster‘ terrified and fascinated the nation that summer, with zoologists eventually concluding the beast was probably a water-damaged raccoon, rather than some sort of byproduct of a top-secret experiment gone horribly wrong. Four years later, it looks like we have another monster on our hand

Millions of people visit the Statue of Liberty each year, but one woman keeps going back for more – because she claims that just touching the iconic symbol of American freedom gives her an orgasm. Wow – now that is what we call patriotism.

According to a ‘Travel + Leisure’ survey of their well-trodden readership, New York City, true to its reputation, is the rudest city in the nation.

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. Read M