TED SHAFFREY

A New York Police Department scuba team looks for debris, Friday, April 11, 2025, where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Divers search for parts after NYC helicopter crash killed a family of five and the pilot, a Navy vet
Police and fire department divers are searching for the main and rear rotors of a sightseeing helicopter that broke apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey, killing six people.
 
A crane vessel lifts the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NYC sightseeing helicopter plunges into river, killing 6 including Spanish family and pilot
A New York City sightseeing helicopter has broken apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River, killing six people.
 
Inmate Nadine Leach, 43, right, visits with her grandchildren and daughter Lashawna Jones, 27, in the newly opened preschool play and learn visitation hub in the Rose M. Singer Center at the Rikers Island jail complex in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
NYC’s Rikers Island jail gets a kid-friendly visitation room ahead of Mother’s Day
The women’s section of Rikers Island is getting a redesigned and more kid-friendly visitation room ahead of Mother’s Day. Prison officials say a colorful, interactive play room will improve bonding between jailed mothers and their children.
 
A family spends time on the beach as scuba divers, Tanasia Swift, second right, and Sarah Sears first right, prepares to enter the water during an underwater cleanup in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. A diving group takes part in a monthly cleanup at a cove in the community of Far Rockaway, about 4 miles south of John F. Kennedy Airport, to help the global effort to undo ocean pollution. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
In New York City, scuba divers’ passion for the sport becomes a mission to collect undersea litter
A small diving group in New York City is trying to do its part in undoing the pollution threatening the oceans and aquatic wildlife.
 
Lewis Pugh swims along the edge of lower Manhattan in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The Hudson River is 315 miles from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York City. And Pugh is swimming all of it. The 53-year-old endurance swimmer finished the leg of his monthlong river journey Wednesday at the lower tip of Manhattan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Hudson River swimmer completes 315-mile trek, conquering fatigue, choppy water, rocks and pollution
The Hudson River is 315 miles from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York City. Lewis Pugh finished swimming all of it on Wednesday.
 
Collectable sneakers on auction at Sotheby’s in New York
True sneaker heads will get the opportunity to expand their collection as Sotheby’s in New York holds its first sneaker auction.
 
100-year-old yoga instructor keeps moving, dancing
A 100-year-old yoga instructor has no plans to stop practicing and teaching. Tao Porchon-Lynch first encountered the ancient practice of yoga at age 7 on a beach in India, where she was born.