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New York Knick owner James Dolan in the centre of the celebrations.

Knicks break their drought and deliver long-awaited sporting glory to New York

After a 53-year wait, the New York Knicks are NBA champions again, thanks to another come-from-behind win.

  • Tim Reynolds

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Legendary art deco piano bar Bemelmans Bar in The Carlyle in NYC.

Join the party: Eight of the best places to get a drink in New York

With the Knicks breaking records in the NBA Finals and the FIFA World Cup in town, New York is once again in the world’s spotlight. Another thing that deserves a trophy? Its outstanding bars.

  • Fiona Carruthers
Brooklyn Rapper Kosha Dillz performs with New York Knicks fans outside Madison Square Garden.

‘Knicks in four’, hear them roar: $100,000 tickets as New York goes NBA crazy

The team in the biggest market in the NBA is playing finals for the first time since 1999 and has the chance to sweep the series, infecting New York with a joie de vivre beyond even its usual energy.

  • Michael Koziol
New York sewer mystery.

‘Up to no good’: Mystery as people filmed popping in and out of NY manholes

Mole people? Mario brothers? Ninja turtles? Bizarre sightings of people entering and leaving the city’s vast sewer system has left residents wondering what’s going on and sparked a police probe.

  • Philip Marcelo
Groups of people going into and coming out of the New York sewers have been caught on CCTV.
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Groups entering the New York sewer systems

Groups of people going into and coming out of the New York sewers have been caught on CCTV.

Amtrak’s NextGen Acela.

The US now has a high-speed train that sets a new standard

Speeds of up to 257.5 km/h, fast Wi-Fi, better seats and improved food than anything before, and it runs from America’s busiest station.

  • Kristie Kellahan
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Broadway star Ainsley Melham performing at the 2026 Australian Theatre Festival gala in New York on May 11.

‘This showbusiness thing is hard’: The Aussies hustling to make it on Broadway

New York’s theatre scene is teeming with Australians who have made huge sacrifices to chase a dream of making it in the Big Apple. That’s reason to celebrate.

  • Michael Koziol
Investigators found the victim’s remains spread throughout Brooklyn.

New York man, 87, convicted of third killing

An elderly man found guilty of the 2022 murder and dismemberment of a 68-year-old woman had already served two separate prison terms for earlier killings.

  • Hurubie Meko
The foyer from the Park Avenue entrance of the revamped Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Inside legendary New York hotel after a $2.84 billion revamp

The long refurbishment of this legendary property, where New York’s elite come to play, cost almost $3 billion – America’s most expensive.

  • Fiona Carruthers
The crash at LaGuardia Airport.

Air Canada CEO to step down after backlash over crash condolence video

Michael Rousseau was criticised for his English-only message following the plane crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport that killed two of the airline’s pilots.