Thursday, April 27, 2017

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  • Human Trafficking in Hotels: New York Lawmaker Teams Up With ...

    Human Trafficking in Hotels: New York Lawmaker Teams Up With ...
    The first time Anneke Lucas heard about legislation designed to rescue human trafficking victims in hotels, she couldn't help but think about how something like that could have helped her as a child. "If I had seen the definition that said I was not a prostitute, that would have made a difference for me," Lucas told NBC News. "I was the kind of child that wanted to get help but there was none." A pioneering Connecticut law aims to put signs explaining who a victim might be along with the p..
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  • Thousands Of Runners Participate In United Airlines NYC Half ...

    Thousands Of Runners Participate In United Airlines NYC Half ...
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than 20,000 runners are taking to the streets of Manhattan for the 2017 United Airlines NYC half-marathon. More: Best Places To Run In NYC The race kicked off at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning near 72nd Street in Central Park. Runners headed south along Seventh Avenue, and across 42nd Street to the West Side Highway. The 13.1-mile journey ends in downtown Manhattan. Those traveling in the area should be wary of street closures throughout the area throughout Sunday morning..
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  • Jimmy Breslin, Legendary New York City Newspaper Columnist ...

    Jimmy Breslin, Legendary New York City Newspaper Columnist ...
    And here is how he described what motivated Breslin the writer: “Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.” Poetic and profane, softhearted and unforgiving, Mr. Breslin inspired every emotion but indifference; letters from outraged readers gladdened his heart. He often went after his own, from Irish-Americans with “shopping center faces” who had forgotten their hardscrabble roots to the Roman Catholic Church, whose sex scandals p..
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  • NYC to remove Islamic names from sidewalk due to vandalism

    NYC to remove Islamic names from sidewalk due to vandalism
    Don’t rest your soles here! The city must remove 11 names revered by Muslims that are etched on downtown sidewalks — because it’s an insult that people are trampling on them, critics are demanding. “It is a hate crime and must be prosecuted,” Alina Nisar wrote on an online petition calling for the removal of the name Mohammad from the 200 names in black granite along Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall, installed in 2003 to honor every ticker tape parade to travel down the corridor. To many..
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  • In '2140,' New York May Be Underwater, But It's Still Home

    In '2140,' New York May Be Underwater, But It's Still Home
    by Kim Stanley Robinson Hardcover, 613 pages | purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleNew York 2140AuthorKim Stanley Robinson Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Early in New York 2140, two boys jump into their inflatable boat to begin the day's business, scavenging through the canals of a half-drowned New York. Since the weight of the engine threatens to sink the stern, the older boy sits up front to balance it out. Much of Kim Stanley Robinson's significant bod..
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  • Jimmy Breslin, Famed New York Columnist and Novelist, Dies

    Jimmy Breslin, Famed New York Columnist and Novelist, Dies
    NEW YORK รข€” Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman Jimmy Breslin, a self-described "street reporter" who chronicled New York City for more than 60 years in newspaper stories and columns and won acclaim for his coverage of the "Son of Sam" serial killings, died on Sunday at age 86. Breslin's death was confirmed by his wife, Ronnie Eldridge, a New York politician and television host and other family, according to the New York Times and the New York Daily News, where he won the Pulitzer Prize. Relat..
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  • 'She was my life': Family remembers slain EMT

    'She was my life': Family remembers slain EMT
    The five young sons of slain EMT Yadira Arroyo showed maturity beyond their years Saturday, fighting through tears to tell a crowd in the Bronx that their mom’s horrific death wasn’t only a curse— but a lesson. “Learn from this,” eldest son Jose Montes, 24, told those gathered at their mother’s Morrisania stationhouse for an announcement that a charity would be placing $100,000 in trust for the boys. “Learn to hold your family closer every day, because life is short.” As he spoke, his youngest ..
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  • Insane video shows accused EMT killer going berserk on cops

    Insane video shows accused EMT killer going berserk on cops
    WARNING: Extremely graphic and offensive language The crazed ex-con accused of fatally driving over an FDNY medic with her own ambulance violently kicked out a police van window while hurling insults at cops less than a month ago, an exclusive video obtained by The Post reveals. Jose GonzalezSeth Gottfried Jose Gonzalez, 25, was arrested and put in the NYPD vehicle after allegedly robbing someone in The Bronx on Feb. 25 around 4:30 a.m., cops said. The purported Bloods gang member nicknamed “B..
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  • High-risk sex, girl-on-girl experimenting linked among NYC teens

    High-risk sex, girl-on-girl experimenting linked among NYC teens
    Nearly half the Big Apple’s sexually active high-school girls have had female partners — and many engage in behavior that endangers their health, an alarming new study finds. Researchers from New York University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine based their findings on a 2013 survey of public high-school students citywide — but most heavily in “high-risk neighborhoods” in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Of 4,600 girls surveyed, 1,101, or 27.5 percent, were sexually active. Of those..
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  • Islanders Fall to Blue Jackets 3-2

    Islanders Fall to Blue Jackets 3-2
    John Tortorella and Doug Weight were only a few feet away from each other.The mental and emotional distance separating the coaches was another matter following a 3-2 victory by Columbus over the New York Islanders on Saturday. Cam Atkinson delivered the winner for the Blue Jackets 1:19 into overtime."I'm very happy with the way we played," Tortorella said. "I'm happy to win a close checking one-goal game."Oliver Bjorkstrand and Josh Anderson scored 14 minutes, 48 seconds apart in the second peri..
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