A daredevil BASE jumped off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and parachuted into a Brooklyn park — where he was quickly arrested for the stunt, police said Monday. Numerous 911 callers said the suspect ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly jumping off the Verrazzano Bridge on the Brooklyn side and going hang gliding, authorities said Monday. Police say they initially got a 911 call for ...

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is set to undergo a major cable rehabilitation project aimed at keeping the iconic span — and vital link between Brooklyn and Staten Island — in top shape for years to ...

The MTA board is expected to vote to approve a $249 million overhaul of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge this week. The plan centers around the installation of a dehumidification system for the four main ...

The dean of the Roman Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals is a 91-year-old Italian who has spent most of his career serving in the Roman curia. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome Follow our live ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...

Suffers from significant fillm emulsion damage at the beginning. The film narrates the story of European explorers during the Age of Discovery, focusing on the French, English, and Dutch efforts to ...

The eastern section of the southern Brooklyn waterfront is getting a makeover. A section of the Shore Parkway Promenade, from the Verrazzano Bridge to Ceasar’s Bay, is slated for reconstruction. The ...

During the Second World War, nurses working at the then modern Luton & Dunstable Hospital decided to help the war effort by ...

How did this affluent gated community near Wrightsville Beach get named? Legend has it that the Landfall community in Wilmington was named after the belief that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano ...

In a new study published on November 18 in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, researchers say they believe a shipwreck discovered off the Kenyan coast could be a galleon from Portuguese explorer ...