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Stuy Town tenants saved from rent hike
More than 1,000 furious tenants at the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village housing complex were saved from mid-lease rent increases yesterday after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intervened. The hikes were scheduled to hit next month. Tenants won’t receive a hike so long as they sign an affidavit vowing that they had been promised set rents when they signed their leases. For Thomas ...
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New York State Assembly shoots down MMA bill
Fightin' Words MMA blog Perhaps next year, fight fans. The bill to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York won't be voted on by the State Assembly this legislative session. The Assembly's Democrats, meeting in conference, discussed the bill Tuesday and Speaker Sheldon Silver declined to bring the bill to the full membership for a vote. This is the fourth straight ...
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Man Wanted For Robbing Women Of iPhones On Subway Trains
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police Tuesday were asking from the public in finding a suspect who robbed two women of their iPhones on subway trains in Queens. The first incident happened on Tuesday, May 14, around 12:30 a.m. A 37-year-old woman was reading something on her iPhone as she rode a northbound M train. When the train pulled into the 67th Avenue station in Forest Hills and the doors ...
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Woman Accused Of Attacking Police Dog While Being Handcuffed
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An NYPD K-9 Unit dog was attacked by a woman as an officer arrested her on a subway platform Tuesday. "Bear," a member of the Transit Bureau K-9 Unit, suffered four broken teeth and lacerations to his tongue. His handler, Officer Vincent Tieniber, was also injured in the incident, suffering a sprained wrist. It all started around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, when ...
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New York state announces plan for board to help cash-strapped cities
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives for a meeting with Appropriations Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman Senator Daniel Inouye and Senator Thad Cochran on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 3, ...
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The War of the Worlds (1953) [DVD]
Producer George Pals film version of H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds was quite a shock to audiences in the early 1950s, which is why it is described as frequently as a horror movie as it is as a science fiction movie. Despite coming on the heels of Allied victory in World War II ... ...
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Gunnar Esiason is winning at the game of life
For Gunnar Esiason, the clock is still running -- and for Boomer Esiason's kid, that means he is winning the game of life. "When I was born, life expectancy was 17 or 18. Now it's the late 30s and it's going up and up," Gunnar said, referring to cystic fibrosis, the disease he has had since birth and that has been the inspiration for the Boomer Esiason Foundation and ...
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Feds Anti-pill psychiatrist sold oxycodone scripts
A psychiatrist who publicly denounced doctors for selling painkillers for money was arrested Tuesday for cashing in on the illegal business too, federal officials said.William S. Belfar, of Huntington, charged up to $1,000 for each oxycodone prescription he wrote out to two undercover FBI agents and an FBI informant on three occasions between May 2011 and April, according to the FBI and ...
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UFT to announce mayoral endorsement Tuesday
Mayoral contenders will learn Wednesday who among them has earned the coveted United Federation of Teachers endorsement, with the decision coming a day after Bill Thompson secured the nod from the allied principals' union.Thompson, a former city comptroller and board of education president, Tuesday declined to speculate about whether he will be the UFT's pick during a conference call ...
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Reward for 08 Times Square bombing leads
Law enforcement is offering a reward of up to $65,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the 2008 bombing of the U.S. Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square in Manhattan.FBI New York (June 18, 2013 12:31 ...
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A plan to expand the Brooklyn Tech Triangle and revamp downtown
Photo credit: Plans to expand the Brooklyn Tech Triangle and downtown Brooklyn revealed today. (Getty) The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition at an Association for a Better New York meeting today revealed its plan to expand Brooklyn's tech community and help downtown Brooklyn in the process. The coalition, along with the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, hopes to increase the NYC tech presence ...