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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — There appears to be two major mistakes that could have made the difference between life and death in a Crown Heights fire that took three lives.
First, fire officials say there were no smoke detectors in the apartment and secondly, it seems it took way too long to respond.
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NEW YORK (WABC) — A sex discrimination lawsuit has been filed against one of the best-known electronics stores in New York.
Four women accuse B&H Electronics of workplace promotions that were discriminatory.
NY Daily News
Gov. Paterson on Monday joined the chorus of critics questioning the government's plan to try Kalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists in New York.
“This is not a decision that I would have made,” the governor said when asked about the upcoming federal trial of KSM and his four underlings.
Bloomberg in the Sukkah of Sholom Ber Drizin this past Sukkos.
Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Show us some love.
Mayor Bloomberg's 6 percentage point loss to Controller William Thompson in Brooklyn revealed deep frustration with the mayor.
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won a third term as New York mayor Tuesday in a closer-than-expected race against a Democratic challenger who stoked voter resentment over the way Bloomberg changed term-limits law so he could stay in office.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Bloomberg, the richest man in New York and founder of the financial information company Bloomberg LP, defeated William Thompson Jr. 51 percent to 46 percent.
By Brad Hamilton, John Doyle and Cynthia R Fagen for the NY Post
NEW YORK — If you feel the earth move under your feet, it just might be the cops.
The NYPD is equipping its police cars with a new high-tech siren that you will not only hear but also feel.
It's called the Rumbler, and its aim is to grab the attention of even the most distracted cellphone-yakking, text-messaging or headphone-addled pedestrian or motorist.
NEW YORK [CBS] — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken his own spending record from four years ago, dropping $85.2 million so far on his campaign for a third term.
The billionaire spent $85 million on his re-election in 2005, and $74 million on his first bid for office in 2001.
By Mike Mclaughlin and Ben Chapman for the New York Post
BROOKLYN — Crime is down so far this year across the city, but some Brooklyn neighborhoods have seen a surge of shootings, NYPD statistics show.
There were 240 gunshot victims in South Brooklyn through early October, up from 179 during the same period in 2008 because of a spike in violence in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Coney Island.
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Dr. Jacquelline Perlman
“I've decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. "It breaks my heart. Malpractice costs are a big part of it. It's a very sad story.
The last straw, she said, came last spring when her insurer, the Combined Coordinating Council, noting the high risk of covering obstetricians, canceled her policy and those of doctors she practiced with at Brooklyn Women's Health Care, a New York Methodist Hospital affiliate.
By Chuck Bennett for the NY Post
NEW YORK — This jihadist wannabe is a “terror” on the road.
Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedicab by day and propagandizes for the terrorists he idolizes by night.
By Ginger Adams Otis for the NY Post
NEW YORK — Swine flu SWAT teams would treat sick 911 callers in their homes — dialing up doctors for diagnoses and prescriptions — under a radical new plan being mulled by the city to prevent jammed emergency rooms, The Post has learned.
Officials are contemplating a new protocol that would transfer callers who report influenza-like symptoms to a special hot line manned by light-duty paramedics and a doctor, said a source with knowledge of the talks.
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots.
In a column published by the Wall Street Journal today about his derailed bid to become part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, he accuses Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making comments that helped get him booted from a group that was trying to buy the NFL team.
BY Ben Chapman and Elizabeth Hays for the NY Daily News
BROOKLYN, NY — Residents in Windsor Terrace are up in arms after a pair of thugs pelted a house with eggs and rocks while shouting anti-Semitic slurs this week, witnesses said.
The alleged bias incident, which took place early Tuesday on Prospect Ave., is the second such crime to rattle the neighborhood in recent weeks - and comes on the heels of other high-profile anti-Semitic incidents across the borough.
By Rocco Parascandola for the NY Daily News
The NYPD is instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones.
NEW YORK — The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.
In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones, the file could be a treasure-trove for detectives investigating drug rings and other criminal enterprises, police sources say.
NEW YORK [CBS] — There's a new chief in town — and as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's head honcho, Jay Walder says he's ready take his first fight to the roads.
His first proposal is an idea that he says can dramatically improve bus service.
A pedicab operator and a taxi driver got into a brawl in the middle of traffic on Broadway near Times Square Monday morning. A Fox 5 News crew happened to be there and captured the fight on camera.
By Jen Chung for the Gothamist
NEW YORK, NY — With terror suspect Najibullah Zazi in custody, accused to plotting to bomb NYC mass transit, experts are now weighing on how Zazi's purchases from a beauty supply store were very dangerous. They say that Zazi “had the means to kill scores of people — not hundreds or thousands,” with retired FBI explosives expert Denny Kline saying, “These explosives are meant to be concealed easily and deployed easily and kill and maim and cause havoc in small areas.”
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his flu-prevention strategy for the upcoming fall and winter seasons this Tuesday, focusing especially on prevention in elementary school children.
FAILING OVERPASSES: Contractors yesterday
display images of frightening damage to bridges.
(Photo: Matthew McDermott)
display images of frightening damage to bridges.
(Photo: Matthew McDermott)
The 10 most decrepit state-owned bridges in the Big Apple are desperately in need of federal funds to fix potentially dangerous conditions, a trade group warned yesterday.
Almost all the crumbling structures span waterways or train tracks or are located on major highways, the General Contractors Association of New York said.
Leading the way is the chronically congested Kosciuszko Bridge on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, followed by the Gowanus Expressway and the Bronx River Parkway section that crosses over Amtrak rails, the group said.
A tent on the grounds of the 17th century Villa Doria Pamphili is prepared for the next day's arrival of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Rome on June 9, 2009.
NEW YORK [REUTERS] — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on suburban New York property owned by Donald Trump on Tuesday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said.
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The elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team is poised to make more anti-terror raids in Queens, sources told the Daily News.
FBI agents with bomb-sniffing dogs Wednesday raided the Colorado apartment of an Afghan national linked to Al Qaeda and a plot to attack the New York City subway system.
Simultaneously, authorities swarmed over a nearby home believed to belong to a relative of Najibullah Zazi, hauling out boxes of evidence.
Battalion 38, Ladder 123, and Engine company 234, St. Johns East.
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The FDNY is responding to fires faster than ever, and there have been fewer deaths this year than ever before.
