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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Flaming Lips Ring In Summer Early At GoogaMooga
GoogaMooga festival best. It was not too cold, not too hot, pretty much the perfect night for an outdoor show. It was almost as if you were back in your mother's womb. Hidden away in a remote field of Brooklyn's Prospect Park (to find the location, it was best to just follow the music, since signage was spare), Coyne and the rest of his band tried to amp up the crowd. Taking the ...
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Pacers not saying whether Hill to play vs. Knicks
New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, left, fouls Indiana Pacers guard George Hill during the second half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, in Indianapolis on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael ...
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Queens Councilman bashes Delta terminal concessionaires after taking donation from airline
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!City Councilman Donovan Richards turned up at a ceremony Thursday morning to accept a $100,000 donation from Delta Airlines for the opening of a YMCA in his Rockaways district.That night, the Queens Democrat turned up at a community rally to protest that concessionaires at the new $1.4 billion Delta terminal at JFK were paying wages as low as $8 an ...
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Young Woman Dies A Day After Being Hit By Vehicle In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — One of three people women struck by a vehicle in the Bronx Friday has died. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday at Grand Concourse near East 172nd Street. Two female victims - described in some reports as 20 and 28 and in others as 16-year-old girls — were taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in critical condition. One has since died, authorities ...
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Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In New Jersey
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Mega Millions jackpot ticket was sold in New Jersey Friday night, while the Powerball jackpot stands at a whopping $600 million. Winning Mega Millions tickets worth $190 million were sold in New Jersey and Virginia. Three tickets in New York and three in New Jersey also matched five numbers without the "mega" number, for a value of $250,000 each. ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 18
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: Chicago Cubs: 1. ...
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Hard days fight Founders of Beatles tribute band sue co-producer for allegedly knocking off their act
An imitation Beatles band is upset that another bunch of Fab Four fakers could soon be here, there and everywhere.The founding members of "Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles" sued their co-producer yesterday for allegedly knocking off their act for a British production called "Let It Be" that’s expected to open on Broadway in July.Court papers also allege that Jeff Parry ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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Man Shot Killed At Busy Greenwich Village Intersection
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man was shot and killed early Saturday in fashionable Greenwich Village. Police were dispatched to the corner of 8th Street and Sixth Avenue just after midnight Saturday. They found the victim, an unidentified 32-year-old man, on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. The victim was pronounced dead a short time afterward at Beth Israel ...
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Second Suspect Apprehended In Robbery Of Man 78 In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A second suspect has been charged in the robbery of a 78-year-old man for his chain and pendant in the Bronx last week. Datwan Elliot, 23, of the Bronx, was charged with robbery, assault and grand larceny in the ...
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CBS 2 Weekend Program Links May 18-19
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Cops investigating after Long Island college student killed
By Frank Eltman Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog. Less than a week later, Nassau County police announced that Rebello, who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other college students inside ...
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NY spending $90 million upgrading parks and historic sites
ALBANY - The Cuomo administration says about $90 million will be spent this year on construction projects at 50 of the state's parks and historic sites.It says that will cover almost 90 projects to upgrade infrastructure or fix potential health and safety problems.Planning will also begin on 60 more projects to be undertaken in coming years. There are 179 state parks and 35 historic sites ...
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Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth Vote is imminent
Minnesota appears poised to legalize gay marriage, as the Democratic speaker of the state House said Tuesday that a gay marriage bill endorsed by the governor and likely to pass in the state Senate also now has enough backing in his ...
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FDNY Welcomes 285 New Firefighters
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week presided over a graduation ceremony for 285 probationary FDNY firefighters. As WCBS 880's Rich Lamb reported, it was the first class of new FDNY firefighters to graduate in almost 4 1/2 years. A court case caused the city to suspend training the new firefighters, known as "probies." Fire Commissioner Salvatore ...
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Human Rights Watch finds evidence of torture in Syrian prisons
Members of the Free Syrian Army perform prayers in Damascus in August 13, 2012 after government forces shelled a number of areas in northern Syria part of efforts by the regime to target rebel strongholds. ...
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Commuter rail snarled after Connecticut trains derail
It could take weeks to get commuter rail service in Connecticut back to normal following the derailment of two trains Friday, the mayor of Bridgeport said. The evening rush-hour derailment between Bridgeport and South Norwalk caused about 70 injuries and tore up the tracks, which Mayor Bill Finch said would need extensive repairs that would greatly complicate transportation into the New York ...
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4 LI store employees arrested for selling alcohol to a minor in underage drinking sting
Police say employees of four Long Island businesses have been arrested in an underage drinking sting.Suffolk County police sent a volunteer under the age of 21 to four businesses Friday night and had the person attempt to buy alcohol.Police say employees at all four businesses agreed to sell alcohol to the volunteer.They were two delis in Greenlawn and a convenience store and a tavern in ...
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Man shot dead on Village street corner police
A brazen gunman shot and killed a 25-year-old man on a Greenwich Village street corner last night, cops said.The victim was blasted in the head around midnight at West 8th Street and Sixth Avenue and died at Beth Israel ...
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NTSB To Probe Connecticut Metro-North Derailment That Injured 60
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — Crews remained on the scene Saturday morning, following the derailment and collision of two crowded Metro-North trains in Connecticut. As CBS 2's Janelle Burrell ...
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Preparing Your Yard For The 17-Year Cicada
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The 17-year cicadas will come out of hiding before you know it, and if you have just landscaped your yard, you might want to take some precautions. As WCBS 880's Deborah Rodriguez reported, when the cicadas poke their heads out of the ground in the next week or two, they will latch right onto trees and bushes - posing a problem to smaller, tender ...
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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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