NYC To Test New Text Message Alert System Today
CBS
New Yorkers may get one or more text messages on their cell phones Thursday as part of a test of a new national alert system.
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AP
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state-run website for job seekers now lists 52,000 openings statewide.
New York State Website Lists 52,000 Job Openings
AP
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state-run website for job seekers now lists 52,000 openings statewide.
ConEd Charges More than Double National Average, Seeks Additional Rate Hike
New Yorkers were walloped with a 9.6 percent surge in their power bills last year, even though national electricity prices hardly budged, new government data shows.
NYC Wants Communities to Help Create ‘Slow Zones’
NBC New York
The city transportation officials are asking communities to tell them where drivers need to slow down in their neighborhoods.
NY Post
President Obama signs Affordable Health Care Reform Act.
Nearly one-third of the state’s population will be on Medicaid in three years if ObamaCare is upheld by the US Supreme Court, state officials said.
ObamaCare Will Push 1 Million NYers into Medicaid
NY Post
President Obama signs Affordable Health Care Reform Act.
Nearly one-third of the state’s population will be on Medicaid in three years if ObamaCare is upheld by the US Supreme Court, state officials said.
‘Lone Wolf’ Bomber Arrested in Upper Manhattan
New York Times
Authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers, returning military personnel and elected officials as the target, a person briefed on the case said on Sunday.
NYPD Clears Out Wall Street Protesters
NBC
NYPD officers in riot gear prepare to enter Zuccotti Park.
Hundreds of police officers, some in riot gear, descended on Zuccotti Park after midnight Tuesday in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters.
WETM
It appears very unlikely that wine will be sold in New York grocery stores next year. That word comes from State Senator Tom O'Mara following Governor Andrew Cuomo's comment last week that he does not support that move.
Governor Cuomo: No Wine Sales in Grocery Stores
WETM
It appears very unlikely that wine will be sold in New York grocery stores next year. That word comes from State Senator Tom O’Mara following Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s comment last week that he does not support that move.
New Museum Celebrates the Rebbe’s Old Workplace
The Brooklyn Navy Yard
In 1941, in an effort to help America defeat the Nazis Ym”s, The Rebbe went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, drawing wiring for the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), and other classified military work. Long closed to the public and considered a place of mystery, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is now open to the public.
No More Ticket Reduction for Giving Up Hearing
NY Post
Parking scofflaws are about to lose a precious perk. The city Department of Finance is axing a program that offers reduced parking-ticket fines for motorists who agree not to fight their summons in court, The Post has learned.
New Bill Lets Communities Decide on Bike Lanes
NY Post
New Yorkers will get to pave the way for future bicycle lanes. The City Council yesterday unanimously passed a bill requiring community-board input whenever the Department of Transportation constructs or removes a bike lane.
Black Market for Cigarettes Thrives in New York City
Reuters
At Island Smokes in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco.
Bloomberg Compares Forgetting to Move Your Car to Murdering Your Parents
Politicker
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Mayor Bloomberg was asked about New York City’s unpopular sanitation parking stickers during his weekly appearance on John Gambling’s WOR radio show today. A Brooklyn councilman has introduced a bill that would ban the stickers, which are placed on cars that violate alternate side parking rules and are incredibly difficult to remove, but Mayor Bloomberg told Mr. Gambling he supports the stickers and he compared people who break the rules to someone murdering their parents and not understanding why they have to go to jail.
Experts Say N.Y. Police Dept. Isn’t Policing Itself
NY Times
Raymond W. Kelly, left, New York City Police Commissioner, and Chief Charles V. Campisi, head of the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Seven narcotics investigators are convicted of planting drugs on people to meet arrest quotas. Eight current and former patrol officers are charged with smuggling guns into the state. Another is charged with making a false arrest, apparently as a favor for his cousin. Three more are convicted of robbing a perfume warehouse.
‘Residents Only’ Parking Bill Approved by Committee
Parallel parking in New York City
Every Crown Heights resident who doesn’t own a driveway or garage is familiar with the scene: Arriving home at last after a long day, only to end up circling the neighborhood looking for a parking spot for longer than it took to drive home. Today, a City Council committee voted to help end this situation. Opponents to the bill, however, say it will make it almost impossible to find parking when visiting elsewhere in the city, and is just another scheme for the city to increase ticket revenue.
City Agrees to Revisit Parking Violation Stickers
Today the New York City Council’s Transportation Committee held a hearing on a bill proposed by Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) that would change the city’s approach to punishing drivers for alternate-side parking infractions. Intro No. 546 would end the practice of placing hard-to-remove neon stickers on drivers’ vehicles when a driver parks on the wrong side on alternate-side parking days.
Residential Parking Permits Eyed for New York City
NY Post
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City residents may soon get the exclusive right to park on the streets where they live.
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