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‘Extremely Challenging’ Work Week Begins For 30K Metro-North Commuters
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP)– Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy warned that Monday’s commute is expected to be ';extremely challenging'; following the collision and derailment of two trains outside Bridgeport last week that injured 72 people. Metro-North officials have a fleet of 120 busses at the Bridgeport train station to help rail commuters make their way around the scene ...
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Palladino Yankees’ Girardi And Mets’ Collins Heading In Opposite Directions
More Ernie Palladino Columns Even as we sit well before Memorial Day, a two-sided debate has already started to take shape. Do we cancel the rest of the season and give Joe Girardi a contract extension and Manager of the Year honors? And do we just get it over with in Flushing and proclaim Terry Collins a goner after this year, if not sooner? It's an interesting dualism — on one ...
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New York City shocked as anti-gay hate crimes come out of closet
USA As the Big Apple struggles to come to terms with the murder of a gay man in Greenwich Village on Saturday, an uncomfortable question emerges: Are Americans less tolerant of gay lifestyles than the recent spate of same-sex union legislation indicates? The brutal slaying marked the 22nd hate crime targeting gays in New York City this year, compared to 13 incidents at the same time last ...
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Anheuser-Busch sued by New York distributor
McCraith Beverages, a beer and wine distributor in New York, is suing Anheuser-Busch for assigning new beers to a rival distributor. In the lawsuit, McCraith alleges it was granted exclusive distribution rights between 1994 and 2004 to distribute Rolling Rock, Stella Artois, Becks, Bass and other beers by Labatt USA, which was later bought by InBev USA, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In ...
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Most voters believe government is becoming more dysfunctional poll
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo might think "government is working again," but a new survey out today shows the public isn't so sure. In the Siena College survey, more than two-thirds, or 67 percent, of registered voters say government is becoming more dysfunctional every day while a quarter, or 26 percent, say it's more effective. And after the spate of lawmaker arrests and a ...
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Schmeelk Bad Ending To A Good Knicks Season
Raymond Felton of the New York Knicks looks on during Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. (Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty ...
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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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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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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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