Subways are New York's biggest death trap
Weekday mornings, as she prepares to take her life into her own hands, my pal makes a mental survey of the mortal threats awaiting her. “I have eyes in the back of my head,” Laura Maslin Osenni, 57, tells me with a nervous laugh before hopping aboard a New York City subway train. “I’m always very aware of who’s behind me and on the side of me. I also usually have my arms wrapped around a post when I’m at the edge. “Someone would have a very difficult time getting me on the track,” she says, bef..>> view originalCounterfeiting Trade Settles Into a New York Standby: Self-Storage ...
Photo A CubeSmart self-storage building in Ridgewood, Queens, where a police raid this month turned up counterfeit purses in three compartments. Credit Nicole Craine for The New York Times Time was, if you wanted a knockoff purse, you went to Canal Street in Chinatown and looked for a store with a back room. The police raided these stores and took the bags, but more always arrived. Finally, the handbag companies began to sue the landlords of the buildings, who in turn d..>> view originalWorld War II mystery: Are 'missing' sailors actually in New York ...
It's a confounding mystery of World War II: What happened to the 136 missing sailors from the explosion and sinking of the USS Turner? After all, the ship did not go down in battle or even in the open sea, but while anchored near New York Harbor in 1944, so close to the city that shockwaves from the onboard munitions blasts shattered windows in some buildings. Now, newly discovered documents show that the remains of four of the missing sailors were indeed found and buried not long after the dis..>> view originalTrump Turns Staid Process Into Spectacle as Aspirants Parade to ...
Outside the club’s three-story farmhouse on Saturday, the president-elect poked a finger in General Mattis’s direction and called him “a great man.” The next morning, at 8:39, Mr. Trump gushed again, this time on Twitter, calling him “very impressive” and saying he was “a true general’s general!” Perhaps by design, the roster of figures arriving at the club was difficult to pigeonhole: There were loyalists (Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor), former adversaries (Mitt Romney, who on..>> view originalMelania and Barron Trump Will Stay in New York Until He Finishes ...
Trump transition sources say that Melania Trump and Barron Trump, the wife and youngest son of President-elect Donald Trump, are expected to spend most of their time in New York at least through next spring given "sensitivity" about pulling 10-year-old Barron out of school midyear. Barron attends school in Manhattan. He and his mother will continue to call Trump Tower home during that time. President-elect Trump will be inaugurated into office on Jan. 20. Asked by reporters this afternoon w..>> view originalMan busted in NYC party stabbing says he's innocent
James Rackover is seen in police custody on Nov. 17. Rackover claims he knew nothing about Joseph Comunale's death until he was arrested. (Alec Tabak/for ...>> view originalMarshall Plumlee's NBA debut includes sprint through New York
Marshall Plumlee received a phone call from a Knicks staffer on Sunday morning with a request he wasn't expecting.“Hey, we need you to guard Dwight Howard" was what Plumlee heard on the other line.The rookie center was a bit surprised, to say the least. He had played for the Knicks’ D League team, the Westchester Knicks, Saturday night and he planned to play for the team again Sunday afternoon. But Knicks starting center Joakim Noah was scratched shortly before tipoff due to illness. So the club..>> view originalTheater|Review: A Thoroughly Modern 'Sweet Charity' Who ...
In keeping with the dominant mood of New York City these days, the dance hall hostess known as Charity Hope Valentine has finally shed her middle name. As compellingly portrayed by Sutton Foster, in an archetype-shattering performance, the title character of the 1966 musical “Sweet Charity” has never before seemed so hopeless.Oh, sure, she’s still smiley and goofy and bouncy in the New Group production that opened on Sunday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center. She sings, she tap dance..>> view originalPriebus: Trump considering fund cuts for sanctuary cities
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s team is standing by a proposed crackdown on New York City and other municipalities that help shelter undocumented immigrants from deportations. Trump’s newly named chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday Trump is “looking into” cutting millions of funding to so-called sanctuary cities on Day 1 of his presidency. “That’s something for the new administration to decide and something that we’re going to all be working on and looking into,” Priebus said on CNN’s “Stat..>> view originalBeastie Boys' Ad-Rock Joins Officials In Condemning Post-Election ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As President-elect Donald Trump continued to hold transition meetings in New Jersey, elected officials in New York had plans of their own. Public Advocate Letitia James was in Jackson Heights — holding a rally to lay out an agenda to ‘protect progress.’ As 1010 WINS reported, the rally was in response to concerns expressed by New Yorkers that they could lose basic rights as a result of the election. James laid out an agenda that addressed reproductive choice, public educ..>> view original
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