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Posted: 4/22/2013 5:48:25 PM EST
In this March 18, 2013 file photo cigarette packs are displayed for sale at a convenience store in New York. No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City under a proposal unveiled Monday, April 22, 2013 to make the city the most populous place in America to set the minimum age that high. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 4:58:29 PM EST
FILE - In a Thursday, June 16, 2011 photo, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner announces his resignation from Congress, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Former New York state Rep. Weiner has returned to the forum that led to his political downfall in 2011, launching a new Twitter account. Weiner’s first post Monday, April 22, 2013 was decidedly not racy: a link to a 20-page policy statement outlining “64 Ideas to keep New York City the Capital of the Middle Class.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 9:18:17 AM EST
FILE - In this July 10, 2012 file photo, a United plane prepares to land at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., with the New York City skyline in the background. Commercial airline flights moved smoothly throughout most of the country on Sunday, April 21, 2013, the first day air traffic controllers were subject to furloughs resulting from government spending cuts, though some delays appeared in the late evening in and around New York. The real test, however, will come Monday, when traffic ramps up. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 7:33:34 AM EST
FILE - In this file photo from Aug. 2, 2006, Australian singer Chrissy Amphlett performs with cast from the musical "The Boy from Oz" during a photocall at the Sydney Entertainment Center in Sydney. Amphlett, the raunchy lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls whose hit "I Touch Myself" brought her international fame in the early 1990s, died at her home in New York city on Sunday, April 21, 2013. She was 53 years old. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 7:43:17 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, Pedro Hernandez, right, appears in Manhattan criminal court with his attorney, Harvey Fishbein, in New York. Hernandez, who confessed to killing a long-missing New York City boy Etan Patz, has filed papers on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, to throw out the murder case against him. Fishbein says the man's confession was false and argues there's not enough evidence to support it. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool, File)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 5:43:39 PM EST
This theater image released by The Bruce Cohen Group Ltd. show, from left, Maurice McRae, Hannah Cabell and Nadia Bowers, in a scene from “Collapse”, currently performing off-Broadway at Women’s Project Theater, New York City Center Stage II in New York. (AP Photo/Bruce Cohen Group Ltd, Carol Rosegg)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 11:38:30 AM EST
FILE - In this April 11, 2012 file photo, United States coach Geno Auriemma talks to his players during a women's gold medal basketball game against France at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. A New York City judge has dismissed a discrimination and assault lawsuit against University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Auriemma and USA Basketball. NBA security official Kelley Hardwick had sued in June. She alleged she was removed from the USA women's basketball team's security detail at the London Olympics last year after spurning sexual advances from Auriemma. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 4:52:51 PM EST
Ivory Coast's Ambassador to the U.N. Youssoufou Bamba listens to a question during a one on one interview with a Reuters journalist in New York City January 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
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Posted: 4/16/2013 4:29:49 PM EST
New York City native Alec Barab gets in a morning run in the snow on 12th Ave. in Denver's historic district on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. As much as 8 inches of snow fell overnight in the Mile High City. Other areas of the state reported up to 20 inches. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 4:10:25 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan, 31, 2011 file photo, Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough speaks during a news conference in Washington. Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation's monuments in Washington, New York City and elsewhere, agency officials told Congress on Tuesday. Clough testified Tuesday that the museum complex had made administrative cuts but must now reduce its security contract for gallery attendants because of the budget cuts. As a result, the Smithsonian can't keep all galleries open at once and will begin rolling gallery closures after May 1. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 3:54:32 PM EST
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate John Liu speaks in support of a demonstration against the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactic outside of Manhattan Federal Court in New York, March 18, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Posted: 4/16/2013 11:51:55 AM EST
A New York City Police officer watches as people take pictures with the bull statue in the Financial District, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 in New York. Law enforcers say New York City remains in a heightened state of alert until more is known about the Boston explosions. More officers are working around New York, including counterterrorism units and beefed up patrols. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 5:33:24 PM EST
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. right, meets with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., at City Hall in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013. In a bipartisan 68-31 vote Thursday, senators rejected an effort by conservatives to block debate on Democrats' gun control legislation, a measure backed by President Barack Obama. The National Rifle Association, a foe of the Democratic bill, was sponsoring a NASCAR race in Fort Worth, Texas, and using tweets to urge its supporters to watch it on television. Murphy has asked the Fox network not to broadcast the event, but it was still scheduled to be televised. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 5:14:02 PM EST
Elizabeth Valle (R), mother of New York City police officer Gilberto Valle dubbed by local media as the "cannibal cop", exits the Manhattan Federal Court following his conviction in New York March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Posted: 4/15/2013 3:28:39 AM EST
FILE - New York City Comptroller John Liu announces the launch of his mayoral campaign on the steps of City Hall, in this March 17, 2013 file photo taken in New York. A jury is set to hear the conspiracy case against a former political campaign treasurer and a fundraiser for New York City mayoral hopeful John Liu (loo). Liu is currently New York City's comptroller. He hasn't been charged and has denied any wrongdoing as he runs for mayor. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 3:38:53 PM EST
Hugh Jackman, nominated for best actor for his role in "Les Miserables", arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California in this February 4, 2013, file photo. Officers arrested a woman for stalking after she wielded an electric razor while approaching Australian actor Hugh Jackman at his New York City gym, police said on April 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files
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Posted: 4/14/2013 3:38:53 PM EST
Hugh Jackman, nominated for best actor for his role in "Les Miserables", arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California in this February 4, 2013, file photo. Officers arrested a woman for stalking after she wielded an electric razor while approaching Australian actor Hugh Jackman at his New York City gym, police said on April 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files
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Posted: 4/12/2013 1:42:39 PM EST
FILE - This Sept. 14, 1953 file photo shows Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet, in Tschaikowsky's "Swan Lake" during the opening performance of the company's engagement at the Scala Theater in Milan, Italy. Tallchief died died Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Chicago at the age of 88. Tallchief joined the company that would become the New York City Ballet in 1948. She was married for a time to George Balanchine, who founded the School of American Ballet in New York. Tallchief worked with Balanchine on such masterpieces as 1949's "Firebird" and his now-historic version of "The Nutcracker." (AP Photo, file)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 1:42:39 PM EST
FILE - This May 1954 file photo shows Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet, in New York. Tallchief died Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Chicago at the age of 88. She joined the company that would become the New York City Ballet in 1948 and was married for a time to George Balanchine, who founded the School of American Ballet in New York. Tallchief worked with Balanchine on such masterpieces as 1949's "Firebird" and his now-historic version of "The Nutcracker." (AP Photo/The Cleanliness Bureau)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 1:42:39 PM EST
FILE - This May 16, 1952 file photo shows dancers Maria Tallchief, left, and Andre Eglevsky in the first performance of a new ballet, “Caracole,” by the New York City Ballet in Paris. Tallchief died Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Chicago at the age of 88. She joined the company that would become the New York City Ballet in 1948 and was married for a time to George Balanchine, who founded the School of American Ballet in New York. Tallchief worked with Balanchine on such masterpieces as 1949's "Firebird" and his now-historic version of "The Nutcracker." (AP Photo, file)
