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Teixeira Planning To Play For Yankees’ Double-A Trenton Next Week
TAMPA, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira expects to play in his first game since hurting his right wrist in early March, suiting up for a minor-league game with the Double-A Trenton Trenton on Wednesday. Teixeira injured his wrist while preparing with the U.S. team for the World Baseball Classic. He has been working out at the Yankees’ minor-league complex. ...
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Tony’s Table With Stephanie Blackberry Arugula Salad
1/3 c. Pecan (halves or pieces) Sea Salt and fresh black pepper to taste Dressing: 1 Garlic Clove (minced) 1/2 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1/2 tbsp. Balsamic Vinegar Preparation: In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the dressing and mix together with a fork. In a large mixing bowl, combine all salad ingredients and mix together with dressing. Season with salt and ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 24
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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New Yorks Main Beach tops experts list for best in U.S.
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. This may be hard to believe in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, but an annual list of the best beaches in the country has a New York beach ranked No. 1. Less surprisingly, that beach is in East Hampton, the vacation playground for the rich and ...
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Bridge UJA-Federation of New Yorks Womens Philanthropy Bridge
The 50th UJA-Federation of New ...
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Hotel BPM Brooklyn’s got a brand new groove
Now that Brooklyn's emerging as a go-to destination, new hotels are cropping up to cater to the growing numbers of travellers seeking to stay the night in New York's hipster haven. Hotel BPM, which opened last September, offers stylish rooms in a music-themed ambience and a cool, minimalist ...
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Family friends mourn 14-year-old girl slain on Queens bus by gang bullet
Daja Robinson The grief-stricken best friend of slain teenager Daja Robinson collapsed into tears at a funeral today – vowing to help her heartbroken family get through the tragedy."I'm gonna miss you baby - but I'll try to help [your] mommy be strong," pal Shaquana Almonds, 16, said between tears.She added, "Who would have known I’d never see my best friend ...
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Tot injured in stroller fall during robbery attempt
A 2-year-old girl was injured when she fell out of her stroller during robbery attempt in Brooklyn Friday afternoon, cops said.The tot’s 29-year-old mother was pushing the stroller near Dekalb and Tompkins Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 12:20 p.m. when the thief ran up and tried to snatch the woman’s purse from the handlebars of the stroller, cops said.The woman put a fight ...
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Summer Season Kicks Off At Coney Island
Coney Island is back in business and ready for the summer season. The beach and boardwalk reopened Friday and officials also unveiled the new 2.2-acre Steeplechase Plaza, featuring the restored B&B Carousell. "Today marks the revival of ...
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Washington State Bridge Collapse Is Reminder Of Dangerous Bridges Nationwide
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - An overweight on a bridge that couldn’t handle it proved a disaster overnight in Washington state. It collapsed, sending three cars into the water. Fortunately, no one died. But it’s a reminder that there are thousands of bridges just like it, where if one piece falls, the whole bridge does. Construction ...
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Report Celtics Expect Doc Rivers To Return Deny Nets Chance To Speak With Coveted Head Coach
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Brooklyn Nets can cross Doc Rivers off their coaching wishlist. According to ESPN, Celtics’ president of basketball operations Danny Ainge has denied the Nets permission to speak with Rivers. ';Doc has told me he’s coming back,'; Ainge told ESPN. ';I talk to him almost every day about our team and what we are going to do moving ...
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Coleman Mets’ First Baseman Ike Davis Likely Heading To ‘Lost Wages’
More Columns By all means, let’s continue to trash Ike Davis and blame him as the root causeof all that has gone wrong for the Mets through the first quarter of the season. Yes, Ike is now 1 for his last 38 AB (.026) and has gone hitless in his last 25 AB with RISP. He has just one extra-base hit and one RBI for the entire month of May thus far. You can’t get much more feeble than ...
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New York sees more mortgage violations report
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that banks have violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses, according ...
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Weiner vs. Quinn New York Citys TMI Primary
Reuters New Yorkers -- they all have such interesting lives. This year, some of those lives are going to be on extraordinarily display in the political arena. Between newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's extra-marital sexting and the impending June 11 release of City Council Speaker Christine ...
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Real Housewives Salary Dispute LuAnn de Lesseps Is New Yorks Lone Holdout
that de Lesseps still refuses to sign a deal that would have her return to the reality series -- though, with production already underway, that offer is said to be for a diminished role than the one originally on the ...
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United offering more premium perks from New York
United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...
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US Park Police to end furloughs next week
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ...
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Port Authority fires treasurer 2 top staffers after accepting valuable gifts from vendors sources
The Port Authority’s veteran treasurer and two of her top associates were summarily fired yesterday morning after it was revealed that they had accepted valuable gifts, meals and theater tickets from vendors doing business with the agency during their local and international travels, The Post has learned.The treasurer, Anne Marie Mulligan, a 35-year veteran, was dismissed, along with ...
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Sandy-damaged New York Aquarium reopens this weekend
Playful sea lions and trusty penguins are welcoming visitors back to the New York Aquarium for the first time since the Coney Island marine haven was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The shorefront aquarium will partially reopen on Saturday.Visitors will be able to peer down into pools containing walruses, harbor seals and other mammals. Sea lions will perform in the renovated aquatheater.And there ...
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Floating robot tries to save polluted canal in Brooklyn
Gowanus Canal. A forgotten relic of Brooklyn's industrial past, the garbage-choked waterway is now home to a putrid stew of toxic waste. Where barges once served tanneries and paper mills, all that remains today are high levels of mercury, lead, raw sewage, cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other pollutants. The Gowanus Canal achieved further notoriety in January 2013 when ...
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Pedro Portugal Ecuadorean businessman found in New York after kidnapping
NEW YORK – Police have rescued an Ecuadorean businessman who was kidnapped in New York City and held hostage for a month while his captors demanded his family pay ...
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Delta Celebrates Upgrade Of JFK Terminal 4
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Fact Check Friday Is The IRS’s Lois Lerner A Liar
Internal Revenue Service Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner is sworn in before testifying to the House Oversight Committee – Washington, D.C. – May 22, 2013 (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ...
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‘Mastermind’ Behind Robbery That Left Officer Peter Figoski Dead Found Guilty
was the mastermind behind the robbery that ended with the fatal shooting of NYPD Officer Peter Figoski. Nelson Morales, 29, was convicted of second degree murder and burglary. He faces 25 years to life at sentencing. Morales did ...
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Giglio Mets’ GM Sandy Alderson Is Ringmaster In The Ike Davis Circus
More Columns Ike Davis' season is spiraling out of control, leaving Met fans and baseball analysts to dissect his game on an at-bat by at-bat basis. His fall from the 32 HR, 90 RBI slugger that emerged in the second half of 2012 to the listless, confused shell of ...
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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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