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From the Gothamist Newsmap : A motor vehicle accident at Harlem River Dr S/B at George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, a sexual assault at Parsons Blvd in Queens and a home invasion at Water Ave & Brighton 13st in Brooklyn.
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City Island residents have finally gotten rid of the NYPD firing range on nearby Rodman's Neck in the Bronx, which has been disturbing their peace since the Kennedy administration. Last week the City Council approved the site of a 40-acre Police Academy in College Point, Queens, where the ...
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Police arrested two 3rd graders and a 5th grader suspected of bringing a box cutter and a knife to their Bronx elementary school on Wednesday. According to the Post , a school safety agent nabbed a 9-year-old with a box cutter inside P.S. 2 on Franklin Avenue in Morrisania at around 9:30 ...
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Yesterday, WikiLeaks began posting "half a million US national text pager intercepts," saying, "The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to ...
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From the NY Times The New York Public Library has a great collection of photographs from 1933 of "Thanksgiving Ragamuffins." Unfamiliar with the term? According to this website , kids would get dressed up and "go from house to house ...
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Photograph of Thompson at a mayoral debate from the AP After his surprisingly competitive mayoral bid against Mayor Bloomberg, there have been various rumors about what City Comptroller Bill Thompson might do next. First there were murmurs of a Senate run , and then ones that Andrew Cuomo ...
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From Michelle Salahi's Facebook—the couple's photo with VP Joe Biden While the Obamas' first State Dinner was hailed as a glamorous evening , one thing is looking bad: The security, because a couple from the now-filming "Real Housewives of D.C." managed, somehow, to crash the dinner ...
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Investigators uncovered the remains of an infant encased in cement and a Rubbermaid container when they broke up a suspected sex trafficking ring in Sunset Park. Federal prosecutors allege that Domingo Salazar, 33, smuggled a young Mexican woman into the country, forced her to turn ...
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From the Gothamist Newsmap : An aircraft incident at JFK Airport in Queens, a shooting at Macdonough St & Patchen Ave in Brooklyn, and a traffic alert at FDR Drive & Grand St in Manhattan.
The man who allegedly killed a man on D train last ...
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While in Washington D.C. yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg will start to use students' test scores when evaluating teacher tenure. The NY Times called the proposal one "that has been bitterly opposed by the teachers’ union and criticized as putting too much weight on standardized exams."
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This Thanksgiving, the CDC has been concerned that the H1N1 virus may spread further, what with holiday-related travel. The CDC's Dr. Beth Bell said , "It's important to remember the things that everybody can do to stay healthy," as in not traveling if you're sick, washing your hands ...
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The Time
Just days after a student was suspended from Stuyvesant High School for allegedly setting fires , investigators say a copycat arsonist has been lighting blazes in the esteemed Lower Manhattan school — and taunting police in hieroglyphics.
According to the Daily News , the new ...
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Last night, couple in their 70s were fatally struck by a vehicle as they were crossing a Staten Island street to attend a church mass. The Staten Island Advance reports , "Lillian Sabados [77] was pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, at 4 this morning. Her ...
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The family of the 15-year-old girl who took a stray bullet to the skull last Monday has something incredible to be thankful for today: doctors expect the teen to make a full recovery. After performing brain surgery to remove the bullet from Vada Vasquez's skull, doctors put her in ...
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In spite of the dreary weather, thousands of New Yorkers flocked to the Upper West Side to see balloons get inflated for today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade . Here are just some photographs of the pre-parade excitement—that Spider-Man balloon looks pretty awesome.
The parade begins ...
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Mickey Rourke
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Rangers 2, Panthers 1 (SO): Henrik Lundqvuist came up large in the shootout after stopping all but one shot in regulation, and the Rangers had their first winning steak since mid-October. P.A. Parenteau had the only strike in the shootout. Marian Gaborik had his 19th goal, a power-play ...
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From the Gothamist Newsmap : A shooting at Nostrand Ave & Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, a hazmat at 41st Rd & College Point Blvd in Queens and a suspicious package at East 3rd Street & Ave B in Manhattan.
In its biggest recall ever, Toyota announced ...
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Graphic designer/urban planner Candy Chang has created a set of flash cards on New York tenants' rights that she tells us, "translates scary legal jargon into a fun and friendly format." Learn about painting your apartment, privacy, security deposits, ...
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City Island residents have finally gotten rid of the NYPD firing range on nearby Rodman's Neck in the Bronx, which has been disturbing their peace since the Kennedy administration. Last week the City Council approved the site of a 40-acre Police Academy in College Point, Queens, where the ...
