NEW YORK [WABC] — Mayor Bloomberg has declared a weather emergency ahead of the winter storm that is expected to dump significant snow on New York City.
This school teaches a fourth “R” — rats. Starting Wednesday, the city is offering Rat 101 — a three-hour cram course on keeping the long-tailed terrors from feasting on the fetid buffets inside trash bags.
Greater New York will be stuck between snowstorms Monday, as brisk winds chill the air ahead of another brewing storm.
At 11:00 AM NYC Council started hearings to criticize top Bloomberg officials for failing to respond adequately to the blizzard that paralyzed the city for several days late last month.
NEW YORK [WSJ] — New York City’s transportation commissioner wants to catch motorists who exceed the city’s 30 mph speed limit.
What is your emergency? My kid didn’t do his homework!
Hundreds of crackpot callers tied up overworked EMS units and swamped the 911 system with frivolous calls during the Christmas-weekend blizzard and its snowy aftermath, worsening a deadly backlog of 1,300 jobs, medics told The Post.
NEW YORK [AP] — New York City came out overprepared Friday for a weak storm that delivered just a few inches of snow—not enough to plow in most places and likely not enough for the mayor to redeem himself from a disastrous response to a post-Christmas blizzard.
Split pea and matzo ball soup may have saved the day for city motorists.
Mayor Bloomberg officially scuttled his plan Thursday to hike meter rates a quarter an hour in the outer boroughs – but his decision came only after a private tete-à-tete with City Councilman Jimmy Vacca (D-East Bronx.)
Sanitation workers have been told to save every voice mail, text or email about last week’s blizzard – even on personal phones and computers.
Confident that he’d have a chance to win, Rudy Giuliani is rounding up his top political advisers for a possible 2012 presidential run, sources tell the post’s Page Six.
NEW YORK CITY [AP] — Another storm is taking aim at New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is still under fire for slow cleanup of a stubborn winter blast that kept streets clogged for days and delayed trash pickups, causing uncollected garbage to pile up for more than a week.The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for the New York City, plus parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and suburban Long Island, beginning Friday morning. Two to 5 inches of light snow could come overnight Thursday with heavier snow possible Friday into Saturday.
No one in the Big Apple hit the big Mega Millions jackpot, but New York is home to 11 newly minted quarter-millionaires.
A storm system moving into the New York City area late tomorrow may leave as much as 4 inches of snow on the ground by the end of the week, according to the National Weather Service.
They are sanitationmen and – as a whole – they’ve been portrayed as abominable snowmen responsible for the lousy cleanup after the Blizzard of 2010.
GREAT NECK, NY [AP] — A tiny village on Long Island’s “gold coast” is banning smoking on public sidewalks.
NEW YORK [AP] — New York City saw a double-digit increase in murders during 2010, though overall crime was down 2 percent from last year. That’s according to preliminary figures from the New York City Police Department.
To stretch an analogy beyond all reason, no two snowflakes are alike — and no two boroughs have the same cleanup needs after a blizzard like last week’s, says Brooklyn City Councilman Vincent Gentile.
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