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Source: NYPost.comJust as Congressman Anthony Weiner wasn’t permitted a peaceful resignation [/video-weiner-resigns-at-press-conference-heckler-denies-chance-at-dignified-departure/] from the Ninth Congressional District, his replacement Bob Turner wasn’t permitted a peaceful inauguration. A former Marine dragged an Occupy Wall Street supporter out of a swearing-in ceremony for Republican Congressman Bob Turner after the
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A rendering of Steeplechase Plaza by Coney Island Development Corp.Looks like the big red parachute jump in Coney Island will have a new buddy. The city began construction yesterday under the famous Parachute jump on the $29.5 million Steeplechase Plaza, reports the New York Post [http://www.nypost.
Klearview is one of the many businesses that will be affected by SBS service, but was not informed about the changes by the city. (Source: Klearview)The Department of Transportation and MTA have been pushing a Select Sus Service route along Nostrand Avenue since December 2009 [/video-bus-rapid-transit-details-for-nostrand-avenue/] that could cause
One of the proposed plans for Four Sparrows Shopping Center.Plans to build a shopping center with ties to indicted State Senator Carl Kruger on a city-owned nature preserve near Kings Plaza have been terminated by the developer. Forest City Ratner Companies, which is currently building the controversial Atlantic Yards,
City Councilman Lew Fidler is pushing to extend a hotel tax that he helped get approved two years ago to put much needed revenue in city coffers, though the mayor and hotel industry may put up a fight. Fidler has spoken about the hotel tax at several civic meetings over
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again… and remember to get the help of some buddies. In an attempt to preserve the nation’s waterfronts, several congressman are pushing to pass the Keep America’s Waterfront Working Act [http://www.masgc.org/pdf/workwater/Waterfronts%20Act%20of%
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This much-better-photo-than-the-previous is courtesy of Lisanne/FlickrLooks like it will live to see the age of 92, at least. Two Muslim-American businessmen have saved the Coney Island Bialys and Bagels (2359 Coney Island Avenue) – the nation’s oldest – by taking over the store’s lease and committing to continued production
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Faculty, students and politicians rally to fight education cuts. In this photo: Kit Wainer, UFT Chapter Leader; Jessica Kallo, student; John Liu, NYC Comptroller; Principal Joseph Zaza (Source: Kit Wainer)New York City Comptroller John Liu joined Leon M. Goldstein High School Principal Joseph Zaza, and 125 faculty members, parents
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This is NOT the person in the story. This is how a real pimp does it.Yo! What a pimp gon’ do if his main girl is wit a ‘nother pimp? That’s the same question (not word-for-word) Salah Youssef asked himself, according to prosecutors. Youssef was allegedly in charge
How does this sound: “Take a lovely stroll on the Coney Island concrete-walk!”? Well, hopefully you won’t be hearing that anytime soon. Plans to convert wood planks on the famed Coney Island boardwalk into concrete have been halted by a city panel, reports NY1 [http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/
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(Source: Minnesota Historical Society)Red Bolognia’s life was only worth a bag of nickels. His cohorts in a 1935 Bensonhurst-area murder, though, may have helped test the limits of capital punishment in New York State, and pushed reform through regarding the age limits of those who could receive the
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Surveillance video [http://www.ny1.com/content/149496/man-on-bike-sought-in-connection-with-brooklyn-woman-s-death] has surfaced of the gun-wielding cyclist moments before fatally shooting 65-year-old Alla Kamenev in Brighton Beach last Thursday [/elderly-woman-shot-in-broad-daylight-in-brighton-beach/]. According to News 12 [http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?regionId=1®ion_name=BK&articleId=295899&position=1&
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Private Transportation's B110 Bus (Source: Wikimedia Commons)Controversy has erupted around a Borough Park -Williamsburg bus route, where reporters have discovered that women are directed to sit in the back like pre-Civil Rights minorities. On the B110 bus, which runs through some of the city’s most Orthodox
Source: NY1.comIf there is one thing New Yorkers dislike the most about the winter (no, not the MTA), it has to be potholes. City Councilman James Oddo is pushing for the city to look for new ways to handle their potholes issue, reports NY1 [http://statenisland.ny1.com/content/
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Being green is a tricky thing. With 500,000 trees already planted throughout the city, some are saying that these trees creating more problems, according to a New York Times article [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/nyregion/new-york-planting-a-million-treestoo-many-some-say.html?ref=nyregion] . MillionTreesNYC [http://www.milliontreesnyc.org/html/about/
Source: shoreparkwayviews.blogspot.comWhen it comes to bike paths, it seems the city is a believer in “Out with the old and in with the new.” Or, hell, just forget about the old altogether. While the Department of Transportation continues to implement hundreds of miles of new bike paths across