These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
At 3:58 a.m. on xmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm. But city officials opted not to declare a snow emergency — a significant mobilization that would have, among other things, aided initial snow plowing efforts.
Mayor Bloomberg finally issued a mea culpa today for the snow fiasco that has crippled the city – but vowed not to sack the sanitation chief for the screw up.
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Crown Heights building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
A testy Mayor Bloomberg fended off criticism of the city’s failure to clear hundreds of snow-choked streets Tuesday as an avalanche of critics attacked his reputation as a supermanager.
NEW YORK — Public transportation, crippled by the Sunday blizzard, is limping along today and, contradicting Mayor Bloomberg, MTA Chairman Jay Walder warned that problems will continue throughout Tuesday.
NEW YORK [AP] — It took hours for Christopher Mullen to get off a plane from sunny Cancun and on to a half-empty subway car, his only way home. It would be another eight hours and more — a night spent huddled under a thin blanket on the frigid, grungy car — before he could get off the A train.
Yeshiva World News is reporting that New York City’s 311 system has collapsed, and all calls are getting a busy signal or ringing away.
Hours after the snow stopped, countless streets around the city were unplowed – causing a dangerous backlog in emergency responses and drawing outrage.
NEW YORK [AP] — Planes have begun landing again at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after a blizzard clobbered the Northeast and led authorities to suspend all flight operations.
NYPD to post misdemeanor statistics for past 10 years in response to allegations that serious offenses were downgraded.
NEW YORK CITY [CBS] — The storm bringing a rare white xmas to the South Saturday will arrive over our area Sunday through Monday evening, making holiday travel a nightmare for many.
WASHINGTON [CNN] — The Senate on Wednesday passed a compromise version of a bill to provide free medical treatment to first responders of the September 11 terrorist attack.
The New York Times has sued the New York Police Department, saying the department had routinely violated a state law that requires government agencies to provide information to the press and the public.
The use of food stamps has increased dramatically in the U.S., as the federal government ramps up basic assistance to meet the demands of an increasingly desperate population.
The Fire Department is hot and bothered about a bill being pushed by a Southern Brooklyn lawmaker that would shrink the “no parking” area around fire hydrants from 30 to 20 feet, saying its big rigs need all the space they can get.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has delayed signing a bill that would have increased fines on illegal sidewalk automated teller machines.
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