Get ready for an even bigger chill, New York – and maybe even more snow. National Weather Service forecasters were predicting dangerous wind chills of -1 to -5 degrees from Sunday night into early Monday morning.
NEW YORK [AP] — New York City officials say they caught a break with the latest snowstorm. Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said Friday there wasn’t as much snow as predicted and the snowfall wasn’t as fast.
NEW YORK [NBC] — The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection with numerous federal investigations into New York area mob groups.
NEW YORK [AP] — A suspicious white envelope delivered to the New York offices of Israeli Bank Hapoalim in Manhattan on Wednesday turned out to be an electronic greeting card from a job recruiting firm, police said.
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is pessimistic that Albany will come through with enough money to allow the city to avoid layoffs, wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to give his administration more power to decide which workers should keep or lose their jobs.
The NYPD is trying to teach cops to tell the truth – and nothing but the truth – when they’re in court. After a spate of cases in which cops were prosecuted for lying, the Police Department has created a handbook with tips for testifying.
The federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars” by improperly approving 24-hour home care for thousands of patients.
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.
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