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Several hurt when car veers onto sidewalk
A car rocketing down an avenue in Manhattan's dense East Village swerved out of control, plowed down a sidewalk and smashed through a storefront flower stand Wednesday morning, injuring eight people, witnesses and officials said.A 60-year-old grocery store worker was critically hurt in the 6:30 a.m. crash, which left half a city block in shambles.Police arrested the driver, Shaun ...
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Joe Torres daughter saves baby in Brooklyn
The daughter of former Yankees manager Joe Torre caught a baby who fell from a second-story window in Brooklyn Wednesday, officials said.Cristina Torre, 44, made the save, confirmed Major League Baseball spokesman John Blundell. Police said the baby escaped serious injuryHer father, Joe Torre, 72, the league's executive vice president for baseball operations, was a proud papa ...
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Brooklyn DA series rankles Hynes critics
On the CBS documentary series "Brooklyn DA," the story line is simple: Can prosecutors put the bad guys away?Behind the scenes, the drama unfolding at one of the nation's largest district attorney's offices is more complex, with an upcoming election and opponents threatening to unseat the longtime leader, a review of dozens of cases and a federal lawsuit by a man who was ...
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NYPD K-9 from LI hurt in subway fight recovering
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | With both their injuries apparent, Officer Vincent Tieniber, 36, shows his police dog Bear's broken teeth at One Police Plaza. The two are recovering from injuries suffered after they tried to break up a fight on the southbound platform of the No. 4 subway at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, police said. (June 19, ...
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New York KKK member designs death ray against enemies of Israel
A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...
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Mattingly Dodgers Salvage Split at Yankee Stadium
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Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project
Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...
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Why So Many Derailments In The Tri-State Area Lately Expert Weighs In
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The train derailment that left tracks damaged and passengers stranded on the Long Island Rail Road this week was the fourth to make headlines in the Tri-State Area in a period of a month. As CBS 2 investigative reporter Tamara Leitner reported, an expert has weighed in on what might be causing the ...
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NY baseball greats daughter catches falling baby
NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has ...
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James Gandolfini Dies Sopranos Actor Was 51
co-stars Edie Falco, left, and Lorraine Bracco. Actor James Gandolfini, 51, has died, HBO and other sources confirm. The former star of the HBO ...
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4 people injured in car crash in the East Village NYPD
Photo credit: A destroyed Nissan Altima sits in the street after crashing in the East Village. (Getty Images) Three people were hospitalized and one other was injured after an allegedly drunken driver careened across a crowded sidewalk on Second Avenue Wednesday, officials said. Shaun Martin, 32, of Bayside, was arrested and charged with a DWI, DWAI, criminal possession of a controlled ...
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United Federation Of Teachers Backs Bill Thompson For Mayor
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The United Federation of Teachers has endorsed former City Comptroller Bill Thompson as its choice for the next New York City mayor. "This entire city school system is about helping teachers help children, and we now have the candidate that we know will do that," said union president Michael Mulgrew. As WCBS 880's Monica Miller reported Wednesday ...
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Feds unravel plot to build sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York
USA An FBI investigation has uncovered a plot by a New York state engineer with ties to the Ku Klux Klan to construct a radiation particle weapon, with the intention to sell the device to either a southern branch of the KKK or Jewish groups. Federal investigators first began to investigate Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, when he allegedly approached an Albany-area synagogue and "asked to ...
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Former outfielder Kidd throws first pitch in Bronx
Email NEW YORK -- Hours before throwing the first pitch prior to the nightcap of Wednesday's twin bill between the Yankees and Dodgers, Jason Kidd reminisced about what made him confident the throw would be a success. In high school, Kidd was a highly regarded baseball player and even worked out with the team at California when he first arrived in Berkeley, Calif. "That was part of ...
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Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...
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Long Island to get 2 video slot parlors
ALBANY -- Long Island will get two new video-slot machine parlors -- even if a statewide referendum to allow casinos across New York fails this fall -- under a gambling-expansion agreement announced by lawmakers Wednesday.The deal, reached at midnight Tuesday, is expected to be ratified by rank-and-file state legislators Friday. It would authorize four upstate casinos, but prohibit ...
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New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...
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Woman In Court To Answer To Charges Of Attacking Police Dog
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Queens woman was arraigned Wednesday on charges that she kicked and injured a police dog, as an officer tried to arrest her following a fight on a subway ...
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Touro Law Students Come To Aid Of Sandy Victims Battling Insurance Company
ISLAND PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Several legal eagle law students from our area are spending their summer volunteering - in a trailer, a trailer where Hurricane Sandy victims are forced to live. As CBS 2's Jennifer McLogan reported Wednesday, the law students are helping senior citizens maneuver through complicated legal battles to regain their homes. Anna and Frank ...
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New addition Young slots in leadoff for Mets
Email ATLANTA -- Had he not simply been a fan of his father's big league teams, Eric Young, Jr. would have grown up a Mets fan. Raised in Piscataway, N.J., Young still has family in the area and travels there often. "I definitely still go back and visit on holidays, so pretty much the whole state has been calling me up so far," Young said Wednesday, hours after the Mets acquired ...
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With Atchison to DL Mets recall Brown
Email ATLANTA -- As expected, the Mets placed right-handed reliever Scott Atchison back on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, recalling outfielder Andrew Brown from Triple-A Las Vegas. Atchison suffered a strained right groin while warming up during Game 2 of Tuesday's doubleheader. It would have been his first appearance since returning from a month-long DL stint with right elbow ...
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Mets ink first-rounder Smith plus dozen more
Email ATLANTA -- In addition to first-round Draft pick Dominic Smith, who made his signing with the organization official on Wednesday, the Mets announced that they have inked a dozen more of their Draft picks. The latest batch of signees includes second-round right-handed pitcher Andrew Church, third-round outfielder Ivan Wilson, third-round right-hander Casey Meisner, fifth-round outfielder ...
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Official ruling gives Wright another career hit
Email ATLANTA -- David Wright's latest souvenir is not quite what he thought. Major League Baseball made an official scoring change to last Wednesday's game against the Cardinals, ruling that Wright's bouncing ball in the eighth inning -- originally an error on Cards third baseman David Freese -- was in fact an infield single. That means that when Wright saved the ball from his ...
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NYC teachers union endorses Thompson for mayor
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's massive teachers' union backed former City Comptroller William Thompson for mayor Wednesday, giving a sizeable campaign boost to a onetime school board chief who made an unexpectedly strong showing in the last mayoral ...
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Performing in New York’s Shakespeare in the Park Comedy of Errors Production—Rain or Shine
Summer after summer, New Yorkers and tourists alike spend hours upon hours waiting in line at the Delacorte Theater. For it is there, smack dab in the middle of Central Park, that a little slice of magic known as Shakespeare in the Park takes place. For the past five-plus decades, the stage at ...
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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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