The Statue of Giovanni da Verrazzano in the Battery, New York City. (Danuta Hamlin) Verrazzano was born in 1485 in Tuscany, and Castello di Verrazzano is frequently mentioned as his birthplace.

Maintenance men used pumps to get the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office's newest patrol boat back floating within two hours ...

In New York State alone, there were 198 boating accidents. 2024 is also the final year of phasing in Brianna’s Law, a safety bill enacted in 2019 in honor of an 11-year-old killed in a Long ...

"'Dining in Transit' transports visitors to an era when the journey itself was as significant—and as glamorous—as the ...

Back in the days when international travel was dominated by those great floating cities called ocean liners, two British steamship companies ruled the waves. The Cunard Steamship Company and the ...

Belle Voyage This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any ...

She made a two-week pit stop during a seven-year, around-the-world voyage, gathering some fresh vegetables, before setting sail again, at dawn.

Yet, fashion house Proenza Schouler’s New York Fashion Week collection proved timeless silhouettes and classic styles can be a canvas for reinvention, rather than a constraint.