April 22, 2014
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a sweeping report Thursday that examined New York City’s recovery progress from Superstorm Sandy and promised to reform a much-maligned program that was supposed to rebuild wrecked homes. Speaking to about 50 homeowners, officials and …
April 15, 2014
State lawmakers are taking aim at lead-footed drivers in New York City and Long Island with a proposal to authorize hundreds of speed cameras in school zones, a plan touted as a way to protect pedestrians and raise money for …
April 3, 2014
A year and a half after Superstorm Sandy decimated New York City’s coastline, a city-run program that was supposed to rebuild wrecked homes has only begun construction on three houses, and officials say they will need another $1 billion from …
March 31, 2014
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is announcing a new team to lead the city’s efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy. De Blasio joined Sen. Charles Schumer on Saturday to announce his new plan to help New Yorkers rebuild …
March 21, 2014
Con Edison has made compensation payments to nearly 90 survivors and residents of the fatal blast in Harlem. According to the Wall Street Journal, the payments came a day after federal investigators found a leak in the gas main near …
March 19, 2014
Federal safety investigators found a leak on a natural gas pipeline next to a New York City building destroyed in a fatal explosion last week. The 8-inch main pipeline, parts of which are 120-years old, failed a pressure test, the …
March 13, 2014
The New York City fire department says more than a dozen people are still missing after an explosion leveled two apartment buildings, killing two people. The department also says more than 20 others were injured, including two with life-threatening injuries. …
February 12, 2014
A New York City chemistry teacher has been reassigned pending an investigation after two of her students suffered burns during a lab experiment. According to the New York Post, school officials say Anna Poole has been removed from class to …
February 2, 2014
New York City police are hunting for five bandits who used hammers to pull a brazen broad-daylight robbery at a Cartier store in midtown Manhattan. The suspects entered the store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street at …
January 16, 2014
When dozens of former police officers and firefighters sought disability benefits, advisers provided a playbook for faking mental illness – how to describe daily routines of languishing dysfunction, flunk simple concentration tests convincingly, dress down for benefits interviews, even how …