Bloomberg Supports Plan to Reduce Alternate Side Parking
Mayor Bloomberg signaled support Friday for a City Council plan to reduce alternate-side parking restrictions – but worries too many loopholes could make it difficult to enforce.
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Soft Drink Industry Fights Proposed Food Stamp Ban
To Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, it seemed like a sensible way to attack a major public health problem. To the soft drink industry, giant food companies, makers of snacks and candy, supermarkets, and antihunger groups, it seemed like an attack at the grocery checkout counter.
Albany Uncovers Shocking Amount of Waste in State Government
NY Post
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo
Aides to Gov. Cuomo revealed yesterday that they found massive waste in state government — including 1 million square feet of unused state office space in New York City, nearly 2,000 vendors providing often duplicated products and services, and 425 toll-free phone numbers that haven’t been used in months.
Schumer Attacks Hidden E-Z Pass Fees
NEW YORK [AP] — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says many drivers using the high-speed E-Z Pass lanes on New York highways are getting hit with a hidden fee.
NYC To Target Illegal Subdivision
AP
The scene of a house fire that killed three people is seen in the Bronx borough of New York on Monday, April 25, 2011. Photo: AP
City fire and buildings officials will search for new ways to target landlords who unlawfully subdivide their properties, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday in the wake of a fire that killed a family living in illegal housing.
Council Passes Bill To Change Alternate-Side Parking
CBS
If you are one of the New Yorkers who have to juggle alternate-side-of-the-street parking, this bill is for you.
The city's push to plant a million trees by 2017 is giving some New Yorkers a headache - or at least a stuffy nose and itchy eyes.
City’s Plan to Plant a Million Trees Opposed by Allergy Sufferers
The city’s push to plant a million trees by 2017 is giving some New Yorkers a headache – or at least a stuffy nose and itchy eyes.
Turkish Company Wants to Build Future NYC Taxis in Brooklyn
Wheelchair accessible interior of the Karsan Taxi of Tomorrow.
The Taxi Of Tomorrow might be built in Brooklyn! Karsan, the Turkish manufacturer in the running to build New York’s next generation of taxicabs, is now upping the ante (and changed its tune) by pledging to manufacture the wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. The new pledge makes the Karsan cab the only one of the three finalists which would be built in America (it had previously said it would build them in Turkey).
Al-Qaida Had Sights Set on Brooklyn Bridge
NY1
Al-Qaida had the Brooklyn Bridge in its sights after the September 11th attacks, according to classified military files published by several newspapers including the New York Times.
How the NYPD Ticket-Fix Scam Started Unraveling
NY Post
Internal Affairs cops got a big break in their exploding ticket-fixing probe when they caught a Bronx sergeant shamelessly trying to make a traffic violation disappear for an honorary NYPD deputy commissioner, The Post has learned.
Sneezing? Itchy Eyes? High Pollen in NYC
NBC NY
Attention, allergy sufferers: we know you’re coughing, mercilessly sneezing and desperately want to claw your itchy eyes out of your head.
City Files Lawsuit Over Tax-Free Internet Cigarette Sales
AP
New York City has filed a federal lawsuit accusing 32 people of evading millions of dollars in taxes by buying heaps of cigarettes over the Internet, and then reselling them on the black market.
AP
New data show the state’s decade-long decline in major crimes slowed last year as rapes, robberies and assaults increased in New York City, burglaries rose elsewhere and murders statewide were up 10 percent to 861.
Decade Long Drop in NYC Crime Slowing Down
AP
New data show the state’s decade-long decline in major crimes slowed last year as rapes, robberies and assaults increased in New York City, burglaries rose elsewhere and murders statewide were up 10 percent to 861.
Brooklyn Public Library Offers ‘Amnesty’ Until End of the Month
Courier Life
If you’ve been living in fear of the library’s repo men, now’s your chance to make right with Mr. Bookman.
Mayor Bloomberg Says Ticket-Fixing ‘Almost Impossible’ These Days
DNA Info
BROOKLYN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that alleged police ticket-fixing would be “almost impossible” today thanks to a new electronic monitoring system.
Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa Reveals He Has Cancer
NY Daily News
Radio talk show host, anti-crime activist, and dear friend of the Crown Heights Jewish community Curtis Sliwa.
Radio host, Guardian Angels founder and Gotti family nemesis Curtis Sliwa was once the victim of a drive-by shooting. Now he hopes to have drive-through prostate cancer surgery.
New York Post
The scene outside the auto repair shop. Photo: WCBS 2
An off-duty Triboro-Bridge and Tunnel officer was shot and wounded in a wild gunfight at a Brooklyn car stereo shop with a group of four armed thugs who tried to rob the place, police sources said.
Off Duty Cop Heroically Shoots Robbers near Crown Heights
New York Post
The scene outside the auto repair shop. Photo: WCBS 2
An off-duty Triboro-Bridge and Tunnel officer was shot and wounded in a wild gunfight at a Brooklyn car stereo shop with a group of four armed thugs who tried to rob the place, police sources said.
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