Union Square News

Sculptor Alice Aycock in her studio on Greene Street in SoHo. Her new work, "A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels," has an opening Saturday at the Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y. ( See related article.

Mayor Bloomberg's plan would ban New York restaraurants and food outlets from selling sugary soft drinks over 16ozs How do you feel about the proposed ban? Tell us Mayor Bloomberg will put the proposed ban in front of New York City's board of health, a body he hand picks, so opposition is unlikely.

New York City subway riders are in for a treat.A On Thursday, May 31, 2012, ReLit NY will gather outside the Union Square and World Trade Center Path Station at 5: 30 p.m. to distribute free books to subway passengers.A That long, boring ride home just become more interesting.

The woman killed by a hit-and-run truck driver at Union Square last week has been identified as Roxana Sorina Buta.

Tracie Bennett is shown in a scene from "End of the Rainbow," in New York. Bennett is nominated for a Tony Award for female leading actress in a play.

In this undated theater image released by The O & M Company, Tracie Bennett is shown in a scene from "End of the Rainbow," in New York.

Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a pedestrian near Union Square early Thursday.

Michael DeMarco is unveiling plans of expanding counseling and therapy services offered by his psychotherapy practice with the addition of new staff in his Union Square office, currently providing individual and couples counseling in NYC.

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Diane Martell, 17, of Bessemer, center, leads protesters in a march outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery during a demonstration against the state's immigration law Nov.

She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, she clutched a microphone before a crowd in New York's Union Square.

The Finger Lakes region is more than 200 miles north of the Union Square Greenmarket in New York.

Union and Confederate troops never fought here, but the city became a battleground just the same, hosting political brawls, patriotic rallies, parades, riots and a terrorist attack.

This includes 12 hotels in its newly-formed full-service division. The additions mark HHM's strategic expansion into other regions of the country, beginning with Florida and the West Coast, while diversifying its existing portfolio in the Northeast Corridor.

Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.

Branch CEO Josh Miller at the release of a map showing tech companies and available tech positions in the city, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne , Seth Pinksky , and Internet Week New York Chairman David-Michel Davies .

Because they've held onto their single star for a few years now. I mean, I'm happy for them - earning a Michelin star is a big deal.

In the months since Mayor Bloomberg forcefully evicted thousands of peaceful protesters at Zucotti Park, renamed Liberty Square, a small group of Occupiers has set its camp to the north at Union Square.

At this point, Maialino , on the ground floor of Gramercy Park Hotel , is so popular that it's practically a New York institution.

The Throgs Neck Bridge, between Queens and the Bronx, will be one of several are crossings that will be crowded on Sunday, Mother's Day.