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Citibike gives Broadway building a win over street vendors
Several food vendors in front of 140 Broadway will need to relocate or shut down, as the building will host a CitiBike rack in front of the ...
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REFILE-BRIEF-New York Co reports Q1 earnings per share $0.03
Thu May 23, 2013 4:46pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - New York & Co Inc : * Announces first quarter 2013 EPS of $0.03 * Q1 earnings per share $0.03 * Q1 same store sales fell 2 percent * Q1 earnings per share view $-0.07 -- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Q1 sales $227.5 million versus I/B/E/S view $216.8 million * Says expects positive low to mid single-digit comparable store sales for the second ...
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New York Posts guide to Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to get out and about in the gorgeous weather. Check out the Post's guide to plan your perfect ...
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New Yorks best beaches
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to start working on that tan. Here is a list of the best local beaches so break out the sun block, pack a picnic and call your ...
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Police Investigating Possible Cyberbullying In Suicide Of Queens Girl 12
being bullied online . The girl was found dead in her home Wednesday afternoon by her family. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday that investigators have taken two computers from the home to determine whether online messages may have led to her death. Police were also interviewing her friends and relatives. The girl, identified as Gabrielle Molina, attended Jean Nuzzi Intermediate ...
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Anthony Weiner’s Campaign Website Features Picture Of Pittsburgh
The view from the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh serves as the background for Anthony Weiner’s website. (credit: ...
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Mobster Pleads Guilty To Massive International Drug Trafficking Ring
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A guilty plea in Brooklyn federal court sheds light on a major narcotics syndicate that knew no boundaries. Alessandro Tallone of the Rizzuto organized crime family based in Montreal is one of ten members of that branch of La Cosa Nostra charged with trafficking over $1 billion worth of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy into the U.S., WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell ...
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Silverman John Tortorella’s Coaching Moves Likely To Bury Rangers
how remarkable Henrik Lundqvist can be in goal for the Rangers . It would be wrong to expect any let-up in Game 4 from the Bruins. But the Rangers are a different ...
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Knicks Small Forward Carmelo Anthony Named To All-NBA Second Team
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- LeBron James was a unanimous pick for the All-NBA team and Kobe Bryant earned his record-tying 11th first-team selection. James received all 119 votes for the first team from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joining the league’s MVP and Bryant on the first team Thursday were Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, San ...
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New York man held captive for a month in warehouse rescued by police
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Acting on a tip from the victim's mother, police ...
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87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch ...
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NYPD says 3 kidnapping suspects fled to Ecuador
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says three accomplices to the brutal monthlong kidnapping of a businessman have fled to ...
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NY girl 12 kills herself cites cyber bullying
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has spoken with the family and offered condolences. Education officials did not comment on reports of cyber bullying because of the ongoing ...
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NY sheriffs fault new gun law seek to join suit
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce ...
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New York State museum adds Lincoln artifacts to war exhibit
ALBANY, N.Y. – The New York State Museum has added two artifacts to its exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Now in the exhibit, entitled "An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War," are the notes taken by two physicians who attended President Abraham Lincoln on his death bed. Also added to the collection is the only existing oil painting ...
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New York City F.C. hires first employee
Claudio Reyna as its director of football operations. Reyna, hailing from New Jersey, played for the United States in four World Cups and earned a stint as captain for the national team. Reyna also spent time with Manchester City, playing for the British club from 2003-2007. He is ...
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FDA panel says Merck’s insomnia drug safe in lower doses
A Food and Drug Administration panel says Merck & Co.'s experimental insomnia drug is effective and safe at lower doses, moving the drug company a step closer to gaining approval for the U.S. sale of the sleeping pill. An FDA advisory committee met Wednesday to make recommendations on Merck's drug, suvorexant, which if approved would be first in a new class of sedatives that ...
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Duly Noted MSG permit cronut craze Mets shirt mogul
Now that The Madison Square Garden Co. (NYSE: MSG) has been given a 15-year permit to operate its arena above Penn Station, a new fight has emerged: when those 15 years are up, MSG can earn an indefinite permit for that location so long as it strikes certain deals with ...
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More of us streaming than steaming up the bedroom
If you're looking to unwind, are you going steam up the bedroom or stream in the living room? If you're like most, you're streaming more than steaming. Almost 84 percent of us stream video at least once a week compared with 54 percent who have sex with a significant other once every seven days, according to a survey by M-Go. The survey discovered that only 34 percent of us were ...
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School did not respond fast enough Father of cyberbullied Queens 12-year-old girl
Gabrielle Molina The tragic Queens girl who hanged herself in her bedroom yesterday afternoon was mercilessly teased by classmates who called her a slut, a whore and mocked her failures with boyfriends and choices in music, friends and family said.Gabrielle Molina, 12, was found by her screaming sister at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the small Queens Village home she shared with her parents and two ...
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Cops Man sold stolen autos for scrap
LI crime and police reports A Brooklyn man has been charged with selling nine stolen vehicles to a scrap dealer in New Hyde Park, Nassau County police said Thursday.Eric Robinson, 46, of 140 Schaefer St., was arrested at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday in East Meadow, police said. They declined to say what he was doing in East Meadow at the time.The nine vehicles had been stolen from locations in Nassau ...
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Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs Is Back Now With Wine And Clams
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Instead of a ribbon-cutting, there was a ceremonial cutting of the hot dog links at Nathan’s Famous hot dogs on Coney Island Thursday, as the establishment celebrated its return to operation aftersuperstom Sandy, and it was just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. ';And so I say, let the summer begin,'; said CEO Wayne Norbitz. It took about seven ...
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Bronx Borough President Demands Apology From Company Running ‘Ghetto’ Tour
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A company that promised sightseeing tours to the Bronx that included a New York City ';ghetto'; has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx ';from a safe distance,'; issued a statement this week saying it would ...
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N.J. Bar Accused Of Substituting Rubbing Alcohol For Premium Liquor
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - Was that really a Jack and Coke you had in New Jersey? It might not have been, but authorities in the Garden State are working to do something about it. As ...
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Gotcha Derek Jeter Acts Under Alias At NYC Starbucks Calls Himself ‘Philip’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has always valued his privacy. Despite being the most beloved athlete in the biggest market in the country, he’s always managed to keep a low profile and stay out of the tabloids. The future Hall of Famer has never been the focus of controversy. How, you ask? Nobody is quite sure how the 13-time All-Star has maintained a ...
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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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