The body of missing fashion designer Michele Savoia was found in the Hudson River on Sunday.
After 12 years under the guidance of Mayor and business mogul Michael Bloomberg, the biggest city in the United States is itself a tale of two cities. On the one hand, New York is more gentrified and safer than ever as previous no-go areas in Brooklyn and Harlem have been transformed into playgrounds for students and young professionals. On the other hand, skyrocketing housing prices and the 2008 financial meltdown has sent more of the city’s poor to the streets than ever before.
A subway train crash in the Bronx area of New York has left four people dead and more than 60 injured, with eleven people in a critical condition in hospital.
A small street stall selling pieces of original Banksy artwork for $60 (£38) only managed to make $420, in the artist’s comment on the money and perspective in modern art.
A woman from Brooklyn, New York has filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for arresting her last summer for sunbathing topless in a park in the city.