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3 days ago | abc7ny.com | Bill Ritter

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- On this edition of Up Close, we examine the ongoing issues impacting travel and operations at one of the nation's busiest airports in the Tri-State area. It's been two weeks of travel woes at Newark Liberty International Airport, and now there's concerns that the chaos could continue well into the summer season. Old technology and a shortage of air traffic controllers are just some of the big issues involved.

4 days ago | abc7ny.com | Brian Windhorst

ByBrian Windhorst, ESPNSunday, May 11, 2025 3:52AMNEW YORK -- If nothing else, the Boston Celtics' 2025 playoff run got an appropriate slogan Saturday: "Dark, but in a good way."That's how Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics' philosopher-coach, described the experience of inexplicably falling behind 2-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals to the New York Knicks after brutal home losses but then springing back to a dominant 115-93 Game 3 victory at Madison Square Garden.

5 days ago | abc7ny.com | Jordan Raanan

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Abdul Carter split the difference, choosing to wear No. 51 with the New York Giants after flirting with the possibilities of the retired numbers of legends Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms. Carter asked Taylor to wear his famed No. 56 after being selected third overall in the NFL draft last month. He was rebuffed. He then contemplated Simms' No. 11, before that door was closed by the family of the retired quarterback. Carter eventually went with 51, taking a digit from each.

5 days ago | abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The lights of the Empire State Building shone in gold and white overnight in honor of the new Pope Leo XIV. Four popes have visited St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and that is more than any other church outside of Italy. Many are wondering if Pope Leo XIV could be the fifth. When people found out that the new pope is American, the faithful dropped what they were doing to come together to celebrate and pray at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

6 days ago | abc7ny.com | Mark Guarino

Friday, May 9, 2025 3:22AMWhen Sherry Stone learned that childhood friend Robert Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, she got on her computer and did what few people can do: She emailed him a note of congratulations. "I told him we're thinking of having our next grade school reunion at the Vatican," she said.