Verena Dobnik

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Big plans in works for NYC’s gritty ‘Wild West’

Verena Dobnik · May 23, 2014 1:59 pm

This photo made Thursday April 17, 2014, shows ongoing construction of a rail tunnel, center, at the Hudson Yards redevelopment site on Manhattan's west side in New York. Amtrak is constructing an 800-foot-long concrete box inside the project to preserve space for a tunnel from Newark to New York City that would allow it to double rail capacity across the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In NYC, a $185M tunnel that leads nowhere, for now

Verena Dobnik · April 28, 2014 6:08 am

8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on

Verena Dobnik · March 14, 2014 6:24 pm

Tough winter creates menace: Ice from high-rises

Verena Dobnik · February 20, 2014 12:28 am

Crime scene tape and a New York City police officer block the service entrance to the site of a proposed Islamic community center in New York City, after a 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear has been discovered wedged between it and a luxury high-rise apartment building, Friday, April 26, 2013. The wreckage is believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Tom Hays)

Part found near World Trade Center from Boeing jet

Verena Dobnik · April 27, 2013 4:00 am

‘Heisman Trophy of opera’ goes to Isabel Leonard

Verena Dobnik · April 15, 2013 12:45 pm

A woman gives a monetary tip to characters in New York's Times Square after she photographed the girl with them, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A string of arrests in the last few months has brought unwelcome attention to the growing number of people, mostly poor immigrants, who make a living by donning character outfits, roaming Times Square and charging tourists a few dollars to pose with them in photos. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cookie Monster, Elmo get in Times Square trouble

Verena Dobnik · April 9, 2013 4:00 am

Gov’t: 4 NY area airports have training violations

Verena Dobnik · April 8, 2013 4:00 am

Union: NYC school bus strike to start Wednesday

Verena Dobnik · January 15, 2013 2:34 am

This Dec. 8, 2012 photo provided by ThoughtWorks shows Aaron Swartz, in New York. Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit, hanged himself Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in New York City. In 2011, he was charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in an attempt to make them freely available. He had pleaded not guilty, and his federal trial was to begin next month. (AP Photo/ThoughtWorks, Pernille Ironside)

Swartz’ death fuels debate over computer crime

Daniel Wagner, Verena Dobnik · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

In this Jan. 30, 2009 photo, Internet activist Aaron Swartz poses for a photo in Miami Beach, Fla. Swartz was found dead Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, according to Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for New York's medical examiner. Swartz, 26, was scheduled to face trial on hacking charges in a few weeks. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Michael Francis McElroy) MANDATORY CREDIT; NYC OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUT, NO ARCHIVE

Online activist, programmer Swartz dies in NY

Verena Dobnik · January 12, 2013 5:00 am

This undated artist rendering provided by the New York Public Library from dbox / Foster + Partners shows the entrance to a new lending library in a proposed $300 million renovation of its landmark Fifth Avenue building that will more than double its public space, the New York Public Library president said Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/New York Public Library from dbox / Foster + Partners)

New York Public Library unveils renovation plan

Verena Dobnik · December 20, 2012 4:36 am