The native of Puerto Rico is a founder of one of New York City's oldest poetry centers -- The Nuyorican Poets Caf.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Doctors Charles Campbell and Charles Koester used a laser to remove a tumor from a patient's eye at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

In eighteen fifty-nine, Winslow Homer moved to New York City to work for Harper's Weekly.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

This week on our program, we go to New York City to visit the thirty-five year old Nuyorican Poet's Caf on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

As long as I've been here this is the toughest thing that's ever happened to this city and I want to urge everybody out there to give whatever you can - as little as you can or as much as you can - to give something because there's a lot of people really hurting right now.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The city's World Cup coordinator, Sibongile Mazibuko, says volunteers must be friendly, multi-lingual and able to deal with potentially difficult fans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

South Korean media say Kim Jong-il's personal train crossed into China at the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong Monday.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

Asian-Americans make up just 10 percent of New York City's population, but they comprise 14 percent of army recruits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

However,trade tensions could be raised at the G-20 meeting of the world's largest economies in the U.S.city of Pittsburgh next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The heads of two major international firms Walmart and Coca-Cola also took part in the group's annual meeting in New York City.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

In the United States, it's newer because,for example, Houston - being a relatively new city - really was developed around the automobile."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

It's been more than two weeks since Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb in New York City's crowded Times Square.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

IBM's top-ranked U.S.city is Houston - a sprawling metropolis on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

State-owned investment company Dubai World,which manages much of the city-state's massive development projects, is asking creditors for a delay in repaying about $60 billion in debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Sudanese soldiers carried Jaafar Nimeiri's flag-draped body from the presidential palace in Khartoum to a cemetery in Omdurman, the capital's sister city across the Nile river.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

The plan follows months of deadlock over Iran's nuclear program and the recent discovery of a previously unknown nuclear-enrichment plant near the Iranian city of Qom.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

His house was severely damaged by the quake. He and his family are now renting an apartment in Pescara,Abruzzo's - a modern city on Italy's Adriatic coast.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Kenny Chesney's Sun City Carnival Tour was the highest-grossing Country tour of 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Volunteers from Indonesia's Aceh province have headed to Padang, the hardest-hit city in the September 30 quake, which killed hundreds and destroyed as many as 180,000 buildings.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

The showpiece of the tournament is Johannesburg's 90,000-seat Soccer City outside Soweto.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Currently on a 25-city tour of Europe, Harp returns to the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12