Ed Shanahan

An 18-year-old was ejected after a carriage horse bolted on Wednesday as the driver took a photograph. It was unclear how long the voluntary shutdown might last.

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The building on East 42nd Street, the former headquarters of Pfizer, was being converted to apartments. Several upper floors were sagging.

City officials set up a multiblock “frozen zone” around the building, a construction site near Grand Central Terminal. Beams were being brought in to stabilize the structure, the buildings commissioner said.

A building at risk of partial collapse prompted the city to restrict pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area. Some buses were diverted or delayed, but subway lines remained uninterrupted.

Julie Menin said she would support a bill, formerly known as Ryder’s Law, to ban the rides in Central Park after a tourist was killed in an accident last month.

President Donald Trump has paid writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million he owed her after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her in a New York City department

The death of Romanch Mahajan appeared to have swayed a majority of New York City Council members to vote to abolish the 167-year-old horse-carriage industry in two years.

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, is believed to have been killed in an Iranian attack on Jordan last week. In Ozone Park, where her family lived, neighbors mourned and remembered her.