Workers on Monday raised a steel column onto the office building’s skeleton and torqued the bolts, making the fastenings firm. With the addition, the unfinished structure is technically taller than the Empire State Building’s observation deck at 1,250 feet and can claim the city’s bragging rights.

The shuttle had been scheduled to arrive earlier in the week but NASA pushed it back because of bad weather.

The shuttle prototype was housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington but will soon be making its home at the Intrepid, where it will be “the largest and most significant space artifact in the entire Northeast,” said Susan Marenoff-Zausner, Intrepid’s president.

That won’t happen right away; after its fly-around, the Enterprise is heading to Kennedy Airport, where it will remain for a few weeks until it’s taken off the 747 jet it rode to New York.

After that, Marenoff-Zausner said, it will be put on a barge in early June and brought up the Hudson River to the Intrepid, where it will be put on the flight deck and a pavilion over it will be completed. The museum anticipates opening the shuttle exhibit to the public in mid-July.

“When somebody comes to visit, they will not only see the shuttle itself, but will have an engaging and interactive experience inside the pavilion,” she said.

Three of the suspects were arrested without incident on New York’s Long Island and a fourth was taken into custody in Florida, said FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald.

The three New York suspects — Jason Keryc, 34; of Wantagh, N.Y.; Anthony Ciccone, 39, of Locust Valley, N.Y.; and Diane Kaylor, 36, of Bethpage — made initial court appearances Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Central Islip.

The rare crime scene photograph from Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time.

The city Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicized link to the images has been live for about two weeks for maintenance and testing.

Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the photographs feature all manner of city oversight — from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

The project was four years in the making, part of the department’s mission to make city records accessible to everyone, said department assistant commissioner Kenneth Cobb.

“We all knew that we had fantastic photograph collections that no one would even guess that we had,” Cobb said.

Taken mostly by anonymous municipal workers, some of the images have appeared in publications but most were accessible only by visiting the archive offices in lower Manhattan over the past few years.

Researchers, history buffs, filmmakers, genealogists and preservationists in particular will find the digitized collection helpful. But anyone can search the images, share them through social media or purchase them as prints.

The gallery includes images from the largest collection of criminal justice evidence in the English-speaking world, a repository that holds glass-plate photographs taken by the New York City Police Department.

It also features more than 800,000 color photographs taken with 35mm cameras of every city building in the mid-1980s to update the municipal records, and includes more than 1,300 rarely seen images taken by local photographers of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration.

Because of technological and financial constraints, the digitized gallery does not include the city’s prized collection of 720,000 photographs of every city building from 1939 to 1941. But the database is still growing, and the department plans to add more images.

Among the known contributors to the collection was Eugene de Salignac, the official photographer for the Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures from 1906 to 1934. An iconic Salignac photograph, taken Oct. 7, 1914, and now online, shows more than a half-dozen painters lounging on wires on the Brooklyn Bridge.

“A lot of other photographers who worked for the city were pretty talented but did not produce such a large body of work or a distinct body of work,” said Michael Lorenzini, curator of photography at the Municipal Archives and author of “New York Rises” that showcases Salignac images.

NYU will team with Carnegie Mellon University, City University of New York, University of Toronto, University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on the campus in downtown Brooklyn, according to an e-mailed statement today from the mayor’s office. International Business Machines Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are also part of the consortium.

Bloomberg selected Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in December to create an engineering campus on Roosevelt Island.

The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.

The boy was formally declared dead in 2001. But his fate has remained a mystery and the case has continued to resonate with New Yorkers for more than three decades. Police declined to say if there were new suspects in the case, which helped spark a national movement on the issue of missing children.

A law enforcement official confirmed that investigators had recently spoken with Othniel Miller, a handyman in the SoHo neighborhood who previously used the basement as his workshop.

Investigators were looking for “human remains, personal effects or clothing,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told reporters, saying police were excavating sections of a building’s basement, tearing up flooring and dirt and knocking down walls.

Patz, who was 6 years old when he disappeared, became one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton at a time of intense national interest in missing children in the 1980s. He was formally declared dead in 2001, but his fate has remained a mystery.

The authorities re-launched their search early on Thursday in the SoHo neighborhood of downtown Manhattan where the boy was last seen alive, FBI spokesman Peter Donald said.

“We are here conducting a search in connection with the ongoing FBI investigation into the disappearance of Etan Patz,” Donald said.

Patz disappeared on May 25, 1979, while walking to a bus stop, two blocks from his home. It was the first time his parents had allowed him to make the trip alone, according to news reports from the time.

The case helped spark a national movement on the issue of missing children. May 25 was declared “National Missing Child Day” in Patz’s honor. It also terrorized a generation of parents, for whom the case stood as a worst nightmare.

No one was ever criminally charged in the disappearance, but in 2004 his family won a $2 million civil judgment against Jose Antonio Ramos, a friend of Patz’s babysitter, who has denied any involvement in Patz’s disappearance. The sum has not been paid.

Ramos has since been convicted in a separate case of child molestation and is serving a prison sentence in Pennsylvania. His sentence will expire in November, a state Department of Corrections spokeswoman said.

The parents of the missing boy, Stan and Julie Patz, still live in the same SoHo apartment, and neighbors said they have been relentless in their pursuit of Etan’s killer. The case became an issue in the 2009 elections for Manhattan district attorney, and after winning the election Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance reopened the case in 2010.

“I’m very hopeful that this will bring closure to the family,” said Sean Sweeney, the director of the SoHo Alliance, a neighborhood group. “This is a victory for their tenacity. They were like bulldogs.”

The bank said its net income fell to $619 million, or 52 cents a share, from $625 million, or 50 cents a share, a year earlier. Analysts had expected Bank of New York Mellon to report a profit of 51 cents a share, according to the average of 15 estimates in a Bloomberg survey.

“They put up decent numbers in a challenging environment,” said Gerard Cassidy, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. “When interest rates finally go up, this bank and its competitors should see some relief.”

Bank of New York Mellon said revenue from foreign-exchange trading, the subject of lawsuits against the bank, declined 21 percent from a year earlier. The bank’s chief executive, Gerald L. Hassell, who in November outlined expense cuts aimed at saving as much as $700 million before taxes by 2015, said some savings are already materializing as compensation and software expenses fell.

“We are seeing the early results of our operational excellence initiatives as we generated significant positive operating leverage relative to the fourth quarter,” Mr. Hassell said in a statement.

In August, the bank said it planned to cut 1,500 jobs, or 3 percent, of its work force. Its competitors, State Street of Boston and Northern Trust of Chicago, have taken similar steps.

Bank of New York Mellon, which earns fees on assets it manages and oversees for clients, was helped by a 12 percent gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index in the first quarter.

Assets under custody and administration rose 4 percent to a record $26.6 trillion, and assets under management climbed 6 percent to $1.3 trillion, also a record, the bank said.

Fees from investment services fell 3.6 percent as a result of the fourth-quarter sale of the shareholder services business to Computershare. Investment management fees dropped 2.4 percent because of higher money-market waivers, the bank said in its statement.

Earnings per share climbed as the number of shares outstanding declined.

Once back home after receiving terror training at an al Qaida outpost, Adis Medunjanin and the others formed a sleeper cell of would-be suicide bombers that in 2009 nearly pulled off one of the most chilling terror plots since the September 11 attacks, said assistant US attorney James Loonam.

The trial in Brooklyn features quintessential New York immigrant Muslims who became radicalized in the feverish post-9/11 atmosphere and allegedly became homegrown terrorists with a plan to cause carnage in America’s biggest city.

Federal prosecutor James Loonam opened by pointing across the courtroom at defendant Adis Medunjanin, 27, and calling him an Al-Qaeda “terrorist.”

Loonam detailed how in September 2009 Medunjanin, along with two former New York high school friends, put final touches on a plan to bomb either the subway, Times Square, or another packed location.

“Three men were prepared to strap bombs to their bodies and walk into crowded New York subway cars that were filled with innocent people,” Loonam said. “These men came so close, within days of carrying out this attack, before they were stopped.”

Gesturing at Medunjanin, who wore a suit, the prosecutor said: “One of those Al-Qaeda terrorists is inside the courtroom right now.”

Medunjanin, a Bosnian whose family fled to the United States during the war with Serbia in the 1990s, is charged with nine terrorism-related counts.

He is accused of traveling to Pakistan in a failed attempt to join the Taliban to fight against US forces in Afghanistan, entering the bomb plot on his return home, and finally trying to use his car to cause bloodshed in a desperate last act before his arrest.

He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, said Medunjanin was only a passionate Muslim who wanted to go to Afghanistan because he was outraged by the US drone bombing of civilians and abuses in US military prisons.

“The truth is Adis Medunjanin is not a terrorist. The truth is, in this case, the government with all its inflammatory and incendiary allegations, is just wrong,” Gottlieb said.

“Mr Medunjanin never planned to bomb the New York City subways, contrary to what the government has told you. Mr Medunjanin never joined any plan, as that term is defined in the law… to go to Afghanistan to kill members of the United States military.”

The other two men in the alleged plot, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, have already pleaded guilty and are turning on their old friend in hopes that cooperation with prosecutors will earn them lighter sentences.

Ahmedzay was the first witness called by the prosecution. Zazi, described as the ringleader of the alleged plot, was due to take the stand Tuesday.