Hate Crimes Up in Brooklyn

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.

NYPD is Tracking Cell-Phone Owners, But is it Legal?

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.

Coming Soon To NYC: Red-Light MTA Buses

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.

Pedicab and Taxi Brawl Caught On Tape

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.

Experts: Zazi Could Have Killed Many With Beauty Supplies

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 City Announces H1N1 Flu Fighting Strategy

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.

10 NYC Bridges in Dire Need of Fixing

New York bridges falling down, falling down…

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.

NY Town Orders Stop to Gaddafi Tent on Trump Land

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.

FBI Unit Set for More Anti-Terror Raids in Queens

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.

FDNY Arrives on Scene in Fastest Times on Record

NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The FDNY is responding to fires faster than ever, and there have been fewer deaths this year than ever before.

Anti-Smoking Mike Dubious of Cigarette Arrests

NEW YORK, NY — Mayor Bloomberg indicated yesterday that he supports the idea of a smoking ban in parks and beaches, but has reservations about how it would be enforced.

“Nobody is more of a believer in saving lives and stopping smoking,” Bloomberg said. “In fact, we already ban smoking, for example, in playgrounds.”

Terrorism Raids In Queens – Possible Al-Qaeda Ties

MYFOXNY.COM — NYPD officers and the FBI raided at least three homes early Monday in Queens as part of a terrorism investigation.

Fox 5 News reported Monday afternoon that there may be an al-Qaeda connection to the investigation and one person is under arrest.

9/11 – 8 Years

Today, 9/11/09 marks 8 years to the terror attacks on our country, the attacks that claimed 2,974 lives.

Once-broke Harlem Man in the Money

James “Jimmy” Groves — a Madison Square Garden laborer who recently defaulted on his Capital One credit-card debt — yesterday told The Post that he’s the person who won half of a $336 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot two weeks ago.

“It feels great!” said Groves, 49, near his home in the crime-riddled Grant Houses. “I’m going to Disney World!

”I was down and out, and I didn’t have a dime in my pocket. I asked for a lottery ticket, in 26 installment payments. And the next day, I won $166 million.

“Then the lottery people called me back and told me it was [actually] $168 million,” said the father of two, who has not been publicly confirmed by lottery officials as the winner.

Councilmen Unhappy With Parking Ticket Blizzard

NEW YORK — Ticket-happy traffic agents are slapping Big Apple drivers with “unfair” summonses, according to a lawmaker who wants to put the brakes on the orange blizzard.

“Over the last six months, complaints about traffic summonses have surpassed anything else in my office,” said City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

Parking Tix Haul Plunges $30 Million

NEW YORK — The city handed out 13,000 fewer parking summonses and saw its ticket revenues nose-dive by $30 million last fiscal year — despite a record number of traffic agents on the street.

Downtrodden motorists too broke to pay their tickets are driving the sudden plummet in revenue, driver advocates theorized.

Hudson Crash Pilot Remembered

It was a perfect summer day when Steven Altman set out from a suburban airstrip in his single-engine plane, heading up to northern New Jersey to pick up his brother and nephew and take them to the beach.

There was nothing in the weather forecast or in Altman’s aviation files to portend the horrifying accident that would happen Saturday 1,100 feet over the Hudson River, when his aircraft smashed into a tourist helicopter, killing nine people.