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Mon Sep 11 2023

Remembering an impossibly blue 9/11 sky

Spencer Finch's art installation “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning” dominates a wall in the 9/11 Memorial Museum in Manhattan. In trying to capture the blue of that sky, it comprises 2,983 individual watercolors.

How blue was the sky on that crisp fall day 22 Septembers ago? Ask anyone who was here and they'll tell you.

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Cigarette shelf at the Chestnut Market convience store and Mobil gas station in Nanuet Sept. 8, 2023.

NY's cigarette tax hike takes effect. What you'll pay per pack

New York's cigarette tax just jumped $1 per pack and become the nation's highest. The hike aims to curb smoking, but merchants say it will hurt them.

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A customers leaves The Botanist, a cannabis dispensary just a mile from the New York line on Mill Plain Road in Danbury, CT Sept. 6, 2023.

New Yorkers find regulated weed at Connecticut dispensaries by border

New York marijuana users have found Connecticut dispensaries not far from the state line as New York's rollout of adult-use pot shops limps along.

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Jewel Floyd, 77, sits in the living room of her New York City Housing Authority apartment in the Bronx July 27, 2023. Floyd, who suffers from numerous medical conditions including vertigo, diabetes, and recently diagnosed lung cancer, has had to close off the bedroom in her apartment and live entirely in her living room because of how hot her bedroom has gotten during the recent days and nights of extreme high temperatures.

Summer heat is killing older New Yorkers. Can NY combat rising temps?

Heat is the most common weather-related death in the U.S. Experts warn that climate change could increase those figures.

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Sep 9, 2023; Bronx, New York, USA; Former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter at Old Timer’s Day before the game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports

Celebrating forever champion 1998 Yankees, contrasting this team's current reality

On the 75th Yankees' Old-Timers' Day celebration, the organization marked the 25th anniverary of their 1998 world championship team. The current team is having a forgettable year.

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