New York Yankees recall Traber, option Gonzalez to Scranton (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK - Lefty reliever Billy Traber was recalled from Scranton-Wilkes Barre on Friday by the New York Yankees, who optioned infielder Alberto Gonzalez to the triple-A team.

New York's Seaway Trail boasts birding bounty (CNN.com)
HILTON, New York (AP) -- Greg Lawrence crashed through the underbrush, eyes wide, binoculars swinging from his neck.

New York health facilities fail to meet closure deadline (New York Daily News)
Despite $550 million dedicated to closing or restructuring 81 New York state hospitals and nursing homes, 18 failed to be in compliance by the state-imposed June 30 deadline, according to the state Health Department.

New York mulls insurance exchange revival (Washington Post)
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - New York Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo is enlisting experts to examine the possibility of reviving the New York Insurance Exchange, which was seen as the U.S. equivalent of the Lloyd's of London market when it was founded to great fanfare in 1980.

From Texas or Russia, Ohio or Colombia, Finding Themselves in New York (New York Times)
Nadia Gavrylchenko, 30, was born in Russia and moved to New York with her family when she was 10. Ten years later, she fell in love with her Ukrainian husband, Andrey, and the couple now have a 6-year-old son. Ms. Gavrylchenko commutes from Brooklyn on the Q train each weekday morning to her job as an office manager. Though she returns to Russia often, and her son spends every summer with ...