Lower Manhattan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market will open for a normal trading session on Monday, although with lower volume expected and some delays in opening hours, despite damage from Hurricane Irene.

Suits forcing county to say no for permission to implode empty hotel. When owners of old casinos are ready to pull the plug, they head to Clark County government offices for a demolition permit, detailing how and when the building should be taken down so as not to harm neighbors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's satellite financial center, Jersey City, was one of the areas in the New York area worst hit by Hurricane Irene as flood waters lapped through its streets, inundating the basements of many homes.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market will open for a normal trading session on Monday, although with lower volume, despite damage from Hurricane Irene and the possible absence of public transportation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil refineries and nuclear power plants along the U.S. East Coast eyed restarts on Sunday as Hurricane Irene left many with only minimal damage, while 3.6 million households and businesses remained without power.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil refineries and nuclear power plants along the U.S. East Coast eyed restarts on Sunday as Hurricane Irene left many with only minimal damage, while 3.6 million households and businesses remained without power.

Hurricane Irene is expected to inflict tens of billions of dollars in damage before it concludes a three-day sweep that has left a trail of havoc from Atlantic beach resorts to Manhattan high rises, officials and others said Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cash is king in a hurricane, but getting it is another question entirely.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene is likely to cause more insured losses in the Bahamas than 1999's devastating Hurricane Floyd, catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide said on Thursday, even as the storm increasingly tracks toward a weekend landfall in the greater New York City area.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the annals of natural disasters, it doesn't get much worse than a major hurricane directly striking New York City and Long Island.

When the Twin Towers fell, Andy Roddick was staying with his parents in Florida, Roger Federer was working out at a Swiss gym while a 15-year-old Rafael Nadal was losing his first ever senior match.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uncertainty about what to expect from the federal government's tax and revenue policies might further delay construction of two out of the five World Trade Center towers, the project's developer, Larry Silverstein said in an interview.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tremors shook New York City office buildings on Tuesday, prompting evacuations of courthouses, City Hall and halting work at the World Trade Center construction site, officials and witnesses said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group <AIG.N> and dozens of banks have filed motions in federal court to block a proposed nationwide class-action suit against them over AIG's 2008 near-collapse.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - From an old-world Italian restaurant where Leonardo DiCaprio ate to the bakery where Cher found love, a New York tour company is taking movie fans to see where their favorite films were shot -- in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facing a stagnant job market, law graduates from New York and Michigan schools on Wednesday accused their alma maters of duping graduates out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition by publishing misleading post-graduation employment and salary statistics.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - It's known for its Broadway shows, designer shops and exclusive restaurants but there are plenty of things to enjoy in the Big Apple without burning a hole in your pocket.

The gleaming World Trade Center rising from Ground Zero in New York will be far more sophisticated and impressive than the destroyed Twin Towers it replaces, project leaders vowed Thursday.

The gleaming World Trade Center rising from Ground Zero in New York will be more sophisticated and impressive than the destroyed Twin Towers it replaces, project leaders said Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department is launching a mobile radiation detection system equipped with location-tracking GPS technology that it says could help avert a so-called dirty bomb attack.