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Weiners rivals in mayoral race may use Cuomos shame on us remark
Gov. Cuomo’s smackdown of Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid is "political gold" for the shamed sexter’s rivals, campaign sources told The Post. "This is exactly the kind of stuff you’d use if you need to take Weiner down," an operative in an opposing mayoral camp crowed yesterday, after Cuomo bluntly declared "shame on us" if voters elect Weiner. ...
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Power Outage Shuts Down 7 Train Between Manhattan And Queens
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Service on the 7 Train between Manhattan and Queens was suspended Saturday morning, following a power outage. Due to the loss of power between the 42nd Street-Times Square and Queensboro Plaza stations, 7 Train service was suspended in both directions between the two stops shortly after 5 a.m., according to the Metropolitan Transportation ...
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Rain And Cold Not Dampening Spirit On Jersey Shore
Despite miserable weather, Jersey Shore residents and business owners were excited about the reopening of the shoreline for Memorial Day Weekend. (Credit: CBS ...
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Bethpage Air Show Called Off For Saturday Due To Weather
Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach , Long Island, has been canceled for Saturday due to the rainy, bone-chilling weather. The air show will go on as planned on Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 3 ...
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Michael Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group Is Going After A Democratic Senator And It’s Already Getting Really Personal
Business Insider May 25, 2013 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first gun control challenge to a Democrat is already getting personal. Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the pro-gun control group backed ...
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Knicks Acquire Four-Time All-Star Carmelo Anthony
from Minnesota. At 26 years old, Carmelo is in the prime of his NBA career having already established himself as a one of the games elite players and the opportunity to add him to our roster was one we could not pass up, Walsh said. I feel we now have a great frontcourt tandem in Amare and Carmelo and this is an exciting day for the New York Knicks and all our fans. It is extremely difficult ...
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NY Knicks vs. Miami Heat Sweepstakes Official Rules
NY KNICKS VS. MIAMI HEAT SWEEPSTAKES (The Sweepstakes) OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. PERIOD: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00pm (noon) Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, January 24, 2011 and ends at 8:00pm ET on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 (the Sweepstakes Period). 2. ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes is open to ...
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Knicks Roster Coming Together
The New York Knicks roster is starting to fill out nicely. A day after the Knicks officially obtained five-time All-Star Amare Stoudemire, the team announced the acquisition of Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike from Golden State in a sign-and-trade deal for David Lee on Friday. The Knicks roster, including the three drafted rookies, now stands at 12. This trade gives us an ...
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Knicks Complete Sign Trade for Stoudemire
has been officially acquired from the Phoenix Suns, via sign-and trade, in exchange for a protected future second-round draft selection. Stoudemire, 6-10, 249-pounds, has career averages of 21.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.40 blocks and 34.3 minutes in 516 career games (499 starts) in eight NBA seasons with the Phoenix Suns. The Lake Wales, FL-native has been named an NBA All-Star five times and ...
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Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling
Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...
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B’klyn drug and gun raid
Cops busted two heavily armed Brooklyn drug dealers yesterday, scoring three guns and a cache of cocaine and heroin, authorities said.David Etienne, 27, and Brian Johnson, 25, were caught off guard when officers from the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Gang Squad stormed their building on Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 9:30 a.m., and gave up without a fight.Cops said they recovered a .22- ...
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Bynes is a brat gone bong-kers
Andrea Peyser Sometime-actress and full-time train wreck Amanda Bynes took her pocketful of crazy into Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, where the disturbed and potentially hazardous actress caught a major break. In a ratty, platinum-blond wig that looked as if something had died in it, Bynes did her best impersonation of that competing four-car pileup, Lindsay Lohan.This is just what the city ...
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Bikes rack up protests
Opponents of the city’s bike-sharing program have plastered East Village kiosks with copies of a Post article headlined, "Get the rack outta here," that shows a crew moving a rack across town. A gadfly scribbled, "Call 311!" over the photocopied posters. "This is not a good location," resident Tallia Herrara, 29, said of bike racks on East 13th Street and ...
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Clues in Conn. train derailment
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said yesterday.They didn’t explain what the condition was, though they did say repair work had been done last month in the area of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not yet ...
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Hot dog hooker busted
Long Island’s hot-dog hooker is back to selling her buns, cops said yesterday. Catherine Scalia, 47 - who got seven days in prison last year for selling sex out of her hot-dog truck - was busted again yesterday for prostitution, Nassau County cops said.Sacalia was caught during a prostitution sting when she responded to a police officer’s call for a masseuse at an East Garden City ...
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Court’s a real hair raiser for Amanda
Troubled starlet Amanda Bynes wore a tangled peroxide-blond wig and sweat pants yesterday to a Manhattan courtroom, where she answered to drug charges - then had to bum $20 off her lawyer for the cab ride home. The dazed former Nickelodeon actress had allegedly flung a bong out of her Times Square apartment’s 36th-floor window on Thursday as she was being interviewed by uniformed ...
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Mayor Quinn in air clash
In a bizarre scene at JFK Airport, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday toasted a new terminal - while mayoral race front-runner Christine Quinn was outside protesting the airline that helped build it. Hizzoner held court with Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson and the Rockettes at Gate 41 in Terminal 4, touting the $1.4 billion facility for bringing jobs to New Yorkers and promoting "the great ...
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Crooked doc gets 8 years
A doctor at the heart of the massive LIRR "gravy train" scandal was sentenced to eight years in federal prison yesterday for the audacious $1 billion pension scam - which the judge condemned as "a large pool of corruption."Dr. Peter Ajemian, 63, was also ordered to pay back $233 million for falsely diagnosing hundreds of greedy Long Island Rail Road workers with disabilities ...
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New GOP Kelly push
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the talk of the political world yesterday, with sources saying Republican power brokers are in a "full-court press" to get him to enter the mayor’s race."There are people who are unhappy with the field of candidates who badly want Kelly to get in," one said.Sources said state GOP Chairman Ed Cox is part of the push. Kelly maintained ...
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Sex school Manns up
The elite Horace Mann School yesterday publicly apologized for the decades-long sexual abuse of dozens of students - but officials did not say they’d support an outside investigation of the scandal as some victims had demanded.In a joint statement, Board of Trustees Chairman Steven Friedman and Principal Thomas Kelly said "it is clear that between 1962 and 1996, former teachers and ...
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Yankees ask Nuno to outduel unbeaten Moore
Selected by the Indians in the 48th round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, released two years later and now taking Ivan Nova's spot in the Yankees' starting rotation is 25-year-old left-hander Vidal Nuno. While Nova was activated from the 15-day disabled list Friday, Yankees manager Joe Girardi sent him to the bullpen. Instead, Nuno, who will start Saturday's game against ...
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Gee to face Braves after completion of suspended game
The Mets avoided Jason Heyward during their first meeting with the Braves this season -- he was still recovering from an emergency appendectomy performed on April 22. On Saturday night at Citi Field, New York starter Dillon Gee can expect to see plenty of the 23-year-old right fielder as he and the rest of Atlanta's left-handed weapons look to stay hot. But first, the Braves and Mets have ...
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Haynes Johnson Dead Pulitzer-Winning Journalist And Author Dies At 81
WASHINGTON - Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a heart ...
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Elite New York City prep school apologizes for past sexual abuse
NEW YORK – The Horace Mann School, one of New York City's most prestigious private schools, has apologized for more than three decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by some of its teachers and administrators, according to a letter posted on its website Friday. "We sincerely apologize for the harm that was caused by the teachers and administrators who abused anyone during their ...
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City beaches are back
Seven months after being pummeled by Hurricane Sandy, Coney Island and the city’s seven other beaches are back in business.Mayor Bloomberg officially opened the beaches yesterday, in time for the Memorial Day weekend, and unveiled the new Steeplechase Plaza, just west of Stillwell Avenue. The $29.5 million, 2.2-acre plaza showcases the Parachute Jump and a 106-year-old carousel.Brooklyn ...
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New York's community gardens creating tension once more
Community gardening in New York is under threat again, but what are the ideas and opinions surrounding this ongoing battle between the people and the city?
Community gardening is a well-known term and idea in New York City thanks to the much-publicized opposition between former Mayor Giuliani and members of the New York City public, who brought a lawsuit to have the gardens protected. The issue was eventually resolved when Mayor Bloomberg replaced Giuliani and introduced the Garden Settlement of 2002. Read more
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