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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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Barbie eyeing a Manhattan penthouse in search for new dream home
EXCLUSIVE Move over, Malibu - Barbie’s hunting for a dream house in Manhattan!Barbie is moving from her California mansion and embarking on a quest for new digs that could land her in a posh penthouse with Central Park views, makers of the doll say. Toymaker Mattel has hired a team of top-notch interior designers to create three "dream houses" - in New York, California 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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Gay man gunned down in New York
The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot at his head appeared in court on Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate ...
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Civil rights trial on NYPD tactic closing
In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard ...
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Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island
ILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, people on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island, watch seals relaxing on the rocky shore. Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As ...
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Conn. derailment to cause greatly slowed commute
View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds - A derailed Metro-North rail car is hoisted back on to the tracks in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding ...
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Yahoo poised to buy New York-based blogging service
It is reported the board of Yahoo has green-lighted a deal to buy the New-York based blogging service Tumblr for more than 850 million euros. The news is expected to be officially announced later. If confirmed, the plan would give Yahoo a larger social media presence and enhance its appeal to younger ...
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Brooklyn principal’s 92G bonus
Good grades earned him more than just a spot on the fridge.PS 172 Principal Jack Spatola has raked in $92,000 in bonus pay from the city since 2008 for his Brooklyn school’s good performance, making him the top earner under a revamped merit-pay system, data show.In all, 40 public-school principals have each earned cumulative bonuses in excess of $50,000 over the life of the four-year ...
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Grads pay sad tribute
Tears and a moment of silence marked Hofstra University’s graduation ceremony yesterday in memory of slain classmate Andrea Rebello. Many of the nearly 700 grads bore the initials "RIP" on their mortarboards and wore white ribbons on their blue gowns as Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz paid tribute to Rebello, 21, who had wrapped up her junior year a day before she was shot ...
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$avior of Albany’s slimeballs
Sheldon Silver "I didn’t kick him in the groin,’’ said Neary, 53, of Westchester. Maybe she should have. She was fired anyway, she said, when she wouldn’t play ball.Neary was the star witness in then-Gov. Mario Cuomo’s landmark 1992 hearing of the Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Harassment. Describing intimate matters was humiliating. All the worse ...
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Everyday Mom hit$ Angelina
A New Jersey kindergarten teacher with a strong family history of breast cancer blasted Angelina Jolie for giving everyday working women false hope that they, too, can prevent cancer by removing their breasts."It upset me," Debbie Gentile-Abbood said of her reaction to the movie star’s announcement that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy."That’s good for ...
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Accident kills FBI 2
Two FBI special agents were killed during a training exercise in Virginia, officials said.Agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, both from the elite Hostage Rescue Team, were killed off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday, according to the FBI.The agency did not release additional details, but WAVY-TV reported that the accident involved a helicopter flying near a military command ...
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Kid slain being a good pal
The tragic 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot on a Queens bus after a Sweet 16 party had left the bash early to help out her best friend, pals said yesterday."She was supposed to go to another Sweet 16 party with us, but she left because her best friend lost her money and wanted to go home. She’s dead because she got on the wrong bus at the wrong time," said grieving pal Tamia ...
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Syrian army Hezbollah sweep into key rebel city
Hezbollah fighters of a contested city Monday after some of the civil war's most intense fighting. The opposition Syrian National Coalition warned of an "impending massacre" and called for an emergency Arab League session after the Syrian and Hezbollah fighters pushed into parts of the western Syrian city of Qusayr, the hub of an important supply route for rebels fighting Syrian ...
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Buffalo New York students and teachers face attack
Students and teachers in Buffalo, New York, are facing sharp cuts and school closings as part of the push by the new superintendent, Pamela Brown, to cut $50 million from the budget. Brown is seeking to implement her "reform" plan, which aims to close public schools, fire teachers and expand charter schools.On May 7, six of nine members of the Buffalo Board of Education were elected in ...
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Judge tells kook No sue for you
A Brooklyn judge got so fed up with the avalanche of frivolous lawsuits filed by a schizophrenic Midwood man that he forbade the man from suing anybody else, court documents state.Mozart Victor, 22, sued the Aaliyah Memorial Fund for not responding to his fan mail, the NYPD for stopping him after he jumped a turnstile and the Brooklyn Public Library for charging him $20 in late fees."In ...
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Brooklyn shmooklyn Upper E. Side center woos Jews
A banking billionaire is funding a $50 million, all-inclusive community center on the Upper East Side to lure Sephardic Jewish singles and young couples from their home base in Brooklyn. "It’s an Equinox with culture," said Rimma Rose, 30, who plans to move from Brooklyn to Manhattan to be closer to the center. "It will be luxurious. That is the allure of it. And it will be ...
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‘Hofstra’ cop blames self
The Nassau County cop who fatally shot a Hofstra University student during a terrifying home-invasion standoff is "inconsolable," sources told The Post yesterday. "He blames himself and keeps replaying it in his mind," a police source said. "He is torn up about the poor girl."The veteran officer was identified by sources as Officer Nikolas Budimlic, 42, a former ...
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Ex-lawmaker still abusing pol park perk
EXCLUSIVE He used to be an assemblyman. Now he’s just an ass.Guillermo Linares, who was defeated handily last election by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, is still brandishing his expired assemblyman’s parking placard on the dashboard of his luxury SUV.Chucked from office since Jan. 1, Linares lost the title but carries on like he should keep the perks.On Thursday, Linares, 62, said he was ...
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Teams do dump tix StubHub
StubHub has blown the lid off the worst-kept secret at the sports-world box office - admitting that it helps teams unload tickets every day in the hope of filling seats that would otherwise go empty."Yes, teams will often put tickets on our site," said Glenn Lehrman, head of communications for the ticket-reselling giant.The matter-of-fact admission confirmed the long-held belief that ...
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Scientist’s suit Keep anatomy to yourself
A respected neuroscientist claims that a dirty dean at the New York Institute of Technology wrecked her career after she rebuffed his sleazy sexual advances, The Post has learned.Dr. Linda Friedman, 54, claims that her boss, Dr. Brian Hallas, couldn’t control his lab coat libido and blew his top when she spurned his relentless harassment, according to a new $7.5 million lawsuit.Friedman, ...
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B’way drama as man falls from theater
A man survived a fall out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street yesterday after landing on the marquee, fire officials said.Witnesses told The Post the older man was milling around a second-floor hall at 2:50 p.m. - 10 minutes before showtime - when he leaned on heavy curtains covering the window of a French door along the wall. The door opened - and the man tumbled ...
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Quinn’s bill bugs ‘all’ cops
A controversial bill to create an inspector general to oversee the NYPD contains a provision that would allow the IG to access and make public sensitive information related to joint investigations with other law-enforcement agencies, The Post has learned.The measure states that the city’s Department of Investigation commissioner - who would oversee the IG - could "review, study audit ...
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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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