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Expert Offers Tips On Turning Yard Sale Trash Into Treasure
GREENWICH, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – With all the spring cleaning going on, this is a hot time for yard sales. CBS 2′s Cindy Hsu spoke to an expert for some tips on deciphering what’s trash and what’s treasure. Samantha Knapp is an interior designer and makes a living finding hidden treasures. She found a pair of doors at a dump and turned them into a kitchen table. Knapp ...
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Improvements Planned For Dangerous Fourth Avenue In Park Slope
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Pedestrians hit by speeding cars, vehicles crashing - many have said it is like the Wild West on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, one of the most dangerous streets in Brooklyn. But as CBS 2's Don Champion reported Wednesday, new proposals could change how drivers get around. Truck traffic, car traffic and even foot traffic are booming around the fashionable Park ...
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Super Bowl Expo Held For Local Businesses Banking On The Big Game
expected economic boost coming to the Tri-State Area next winter. The Meadowlands Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday held a trade show dubbed ';The Big Game Experience'; for local businesses hoping to profit from the big game when it comes to ...
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Is the Big Apple ready for Anthony Weiner…again
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is hoping to make a political comeback by running for mayor of New York City - and he's actually got a shot. Eugene Robinson from The Washington Post and Democratic Strategist Margie Omero join Chris Matthews to discuss Weiner's motives and whether he can ...
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Ankiel making an impact early in Mets tenure
Email NEW YORK -- This was a new beginning for Rick Ankiel. A chance to start over with a new team after getting off to a rough start to the season with the Houston Astros. In nine games with the Mets, Ankiel has brought some offensive stability to a lineup struggling to string hits together and put runs on the board. "It's a new opportunity, and it's exciting," Ankiel said. ...
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Bidding for first win Hefner has Braves on docket
Jeremy Hefner's next attempt at his first win of the season does not figure to be any easier than the previous eight starts. Hefner, 0-5 this year with a 5.00 ERA in nine games (eight starts), will give it another go on Friday against the Braves. It's his first time facing first-place Atlanta this year. The Mets are 0-8 in Hefner's starts this season, and 7-14 in his 21 career ...
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Tawdry tweet dogs Weiner’s campaign for New York City mayor
NEW YORK -- In running for mayor, Anthony Weiner is seeking to get past the tawdry-tweeter punch line that has dogged him since his congressional career imploded two years ago. And while he's facing an uphill sprint, his campaign could help his long-term prospects even if he loses, some experts ...
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Fast and cheap for cops and nurses -- New York eats it up
This is not the place if you are dieting, looking for romantic intimacy or elitist dining. It is, however, a place for inexpensive ribs. Foodies in New York City crave Per Se, Nobu and Daniel where dinner for two can set you back $250 to $300. But for working-class and middle-class New Yorkers, one popular and growing chain of restaurants is more affordable: Dallas BBQ. Dallas BBQ recently ...
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Authorities bust drug store in Brooklyn selling heroin cocaine and guns and bilking Medicaid
Photo credit: Three of the five arrested worked at Malik Pharmacy at 2981 Fulton Street. (Brooklyn DA) A pharmacy in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn was a one-stop shop for a stunning array of illegal drugs and guns and also the source of a Medicaid fraud that attempted to bilk the system for $9,000 in phony prescriptions, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney. Five people, three of them ...
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Report Bloomberg Launches F-Bomb Tirade Against NYC Taxi Kingpin
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City's billionaire mayor is normally a pretty cool customer. But a fellow rich businessman says Michael Bloomberg recently went all hot head, unloading on him, with a profanity-filled taxi tirade. It’s a ';hail'; of a claim from the New York taxi king Gene Friedman, who controls a billion dollars' worth of medallions. He told a ...
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Jets QBs Mark Sanchez Geno Smith Not Sharp At OTAs
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Mark Sanchez threw three interceptions and Geno Smith talked about having to improve ';every single ...
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Cardiac Patients Come Together With Strangers Who Saved Their Lives
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Everyone likes a second chance, but it’s something special when you get a second chance at life — being resuscitated from cardiac arrest. As CBS 2's John Slattery reported, a celebration was held on Randalls Island Wednesday for a dozen cardiac victims, most of whom had the benefit of bystander CPR before paramedics arrived. Fire Commissioner ...
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NJ Officials Name Bars Restaurants Accused In Top-Shelf Scheme
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – More than two dozen bars and restaurants across New Jersey are accused of selling low-quality booze to customers who ordered top-shelf brands. State officials have seized inventory and demanded records from 29 bars and restaurants that allegedly sold low-quality products to patrons who thought they were buying premium liquor. Dubbed ';Operation ...
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Union Claims FDNY Is Underreporting Response Times To Close More Fire Houses
Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano of deliberately underreporting the time it takes for fire trucks to arrive at an emergency. Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy ...
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NYS Assemblyman In Tornado-Ravaged Okla. To Repay Support Given During Sandy
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, who represents the Rockaways, is in Oklahoma offering support and advice to local officials now coping with the aftermath of that massive and deadly tornado. Goldfeder said following superstorm Sandy, he and his constituents know all to well the pain Mother Nature can inflict. ';Unimaginable devastation. It’s ...
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Ike’s Blunder In 9th Buries Mets As Reds Pull Off Sweep
Phillips sent a strange double spinning over first base to break a ninth-inning tie and the Reds completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Mets with a 7-4 victory ...
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Finale against Reds slips past Mets in ninth
CIN@NYM: Ankiel's RBI triple draws Mets even late NEW YORK -- On a day when Ike Davis did not come up empty at the plate, his struggles found a new way to surface in Wednesday's 7-4 loss to the Reds. With closer Bobby Parnell attempting to preserve a tie game in the ninth, Davis watched Brandon Phillips' ground ball to first base bounce on the foul line, hop over the bag and ...
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Obama administration confirms 4 Americans killed by U.S. drones
Obama administration said Wednesday U.S. drones killed four Americans in airstrikes in Yemen and Pakistan. The disclosure came in a letter U.S. Attorney ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
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: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Cuomo Create tax-free zones around SUNY campuses
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- High-tech businesses from other states and abroad that move onto or next to college campuses in New York would operate free of all business, property and personal income taxes for 10 years under a proposal released Wednesday by Gov. Andrew ...
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Lawsuit filed against state of Conn. over gun law
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A group of gun rights organizations, pistol permit holders and gun sellers are suing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing that Connecticut’s new gun control law violates their constitutional ...
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Senators bill to block TSA bigs plan to allow small knives on planes
Transportation Security Administration Commissioner John Pistole is poised to lose a knife fight.A new bill introduced today on Capitol Hill by Sen. Chuck Schumer and three other senators would permanently block Pistole’s plan to permit passengers to carry small knives aboard commercial air flights from going into effect.Schumer, joined by New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and New Jersey ...
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Harlem man acquitted of trying to murder cop
A Manhattan jury this afternoon acquitted a 24-year-old Harlem gunslinger of attempting to murder a police officer during a foot chase last year at 144th Street and Eighth Avenue.The jury cleared Franklin Nunez in the alleged March, 2012 shootout after sidewalk surveillance video and witness testimony suggested that his gun -- a Smith & Wesson loaded with .45-cal hollow point bullets -- may ...
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Jose Canseco accused of sexual assault in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police are investigating a woman's allegations that former baseball player Jose Canseco Jr. sexually assaulted her. Officer Bill Cassell said Wednesday that the 48-year-old Canseco was named as a suspect in the investigation. Cassell says the investigation isn't complete, no charges have been filed and no arrest has been made. The department spokesman ...
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DA Queens Man Headed To Prison For Stripping Church Van Of Parts
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Queens man has been sentenced to two to four years in prison for stripping a church van that was used to transport elderly people. Benjamin Livermore, 31, was convicted in March for gutting a $30,000 van belonging to the New Greater Church Of New York. ';This is not the first time the defendant has been convicted of auto stripping and thus the sentenced ...
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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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