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The employees helping the man to safety. (Photo: MTA)EAST NEW YORK – Five employees at the Long Island Rail Road had just wrapped up their job briefing for the day when they heard a loud thud. A man had fallen into the train tracks. They saved him. Gregory Hartley, Kevin
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Source: Albert MammonA hero never really takes a vacation. Case in point? Albert Mammon, an officer with the NYPD’s 60th Precinct, who became a local celebrity in Bal Harbour, Florida, when he saved a teen’s life while hanging out on the beach. Mammon was taking in some sun
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Source: .v1ctor Casale/FlickrA good Samaritan caught a man accused of rape, and a beating, on Sunday on the shores of Coney Island beach. Fuat Sarieminli suffered a fractured cheekbone, several loose teeth and seven staples in his head after he grabbed a 20-year-old man attempting to flee the area
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The only entrance to Lake Avenue became impassable once water started tumbling down from Emmons Avenue, and debris littered the alleyway.There is no shortage of heroes that came out of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, but it seems everyone on Lake Avenue agrees that two quick thinking residents of
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Well known are the stories of heroism on the part of firefighters, police officers and other first responders on September 11, 2001. But there’s yet another story of heroism that has largely gone under the radar, involving ordinary civilians who put their life and property in harm’s way
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The emergency evacuations of low-lying areas in advance of Hurricane Irene [/city-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-zone-a-including-manhattan-beach-brighton-beach-and-sheepshead-bay/] might have seemed like an overreaction to those residents who didn’t live in the small pockets of the city pummeled by the winds and rain [/photos-hurricane-irenes-first-round-sees-floods-fallen-trees/]. But, despite the small scale of the damage, it’s undeniable