The Secretary-General, accompanied by Madam Ban, returned to New York from Seoul that evening.

UN: Secretary-General

On Sunday evening, Nomura Securities analysts in New York, led by Ellen Zentner, forecast total nonfarm payrolls increasing by 80, 000 in June (90, 000 private), but with the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.2%.

FORBES: Wall Street Looking Beyond EU This Week To U.S. Unemployment

The sales process was led by Blackstone LP, the New York-based investment advisory firm, which held the auction Tuesday evening, just hours after Major League Baseball approved three finalists in the bidding, allowing current owner Frank McCourt to accept the highest and best offer.

WSJ: Dodgers Sold for $2.15 Billion

Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven.

WSJ: Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup

This evening, in Midland Beach, New York, on a street lined with houses and businesses devastated by the storm, a great big Christmas tree shines out of the darkness.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

That same evening, another concert will be held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, hosted by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and featuring Richard Bona, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Danilo Perez, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, Zakir Hussain, Angelique Kidjo, Lang Lang, Romero Lubambo, Shankar Mahadevan, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masekela, Christian McBride, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Hiromi and others.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA