Newest Firefighters a Diverse Class
By JULIAN CANTRES The Fire Department of New York celebrated the graduation of its newest group of members in a Brooklyn church on Tuesday with …[read more]
Month: November 2014
Epileptic Charged with Manslaughter ‘Blacked Out’
By JOHN MORRIS & SANDRA ALMONTE Vincent Zanfardino, an epileptic on trial for killing a 25-year-old motorist in a fatal car crash on Interstate 95 …[read more]
Charter School Advocates Rally for Funding
By DESIREE JACKSON Charter school advocates rallied at Bowling Green on Tuesday, protesting what they say is a lack of faculty and funding for charter …[read more]
Teachout Preaches Out Against Pipeline
By JENNIFER SZULMAN Former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout may not have won the primary election for governor against incumbent Andrew Cuomo back in September, but …[read more]
Pastors and Prof Demand That Bratton Quit
By JOHN MORRIS Author and activist Cornel West and a group of local preachers on Tuesday called for the resignation of police commissioner, Bill Bratton …[read more]
Possible Hike in Subway Fare Causes Hike in Blood Pressure
By MEGAN MESSANA Recent reports that the MTA was considering raising subway and bus fares by a quarter next year had some riders fuming like …[read more]
‘Adam’ Is the Apple of Museumgoers’ Eye
By JENNIFER SZULMAN New life was breathed into Tullio Lombardo’s 15th century sculpture, Adam, on Tuesday as crowds gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art …[read more]
‘Hope’ Sails into New York Harbor
By JULIAN CANTRES Oceans of Hope, a sailboat manned by people with multiple sclerosis, anchored in Manhattan on Tuesday. The 67-foot-long vesselHo departed from Copenhagen, …[read more]
Fulton Transit Hub Costly & Flashy, Riders Say
By SANDRA ALMONTE Subway riders had “mixed feelings” about the cost of Lower Manhattan’s newly opened transit hub on Tuesday, its first full day of …[read more]
Their Eyes Have Seen the Gory
By DESIREE JACKSON, ELIZABETH KELLY, LOVASHNI KHALIKAPRASAD & SAMAIRAH KHAN Former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly served as the Grand Marshal in the …[read more]