Posted on 28 April 2009.
by Tracy Chimming, Emily Feldman, Joel Schectman, and Tim Persinko WHAT A speeding unmarked police vehicle driving in the wrong lane on 125 Street in Harlem hit a man on a bicycle and then continued driving. The black police sedan appeared to be chasing a man on foot running west on 125 Street toward Adam […]
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Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: All Hallows High School, Bronx, New York Yankees
A sell-out crowd of almost 48,000 fans filed into the brand new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium for Opening Day on April 16. So much for home-field advantage—the Yankees fell to the Cleveland Indians with a humiliating 10-2 loss. But at least they have a home field. The stadium now sits upon the former Macombs Dam […]
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Posted on 15 April 2009. Tags: economy, Politics, protests, recession, Wall Street
by Igor Kossov, Lindsay Lazarski, Mike Reicher and Kate Zhao As April rain fell on Wall Street, employees at Bank of America stood between potted plants in their second floor offices and looked down at the angry crowd below. The people in the crowd waved plastic-draped signs, chanting “shame” and “bankers come out.” The bankers […]
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: genocide, LTTE, rally, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, UN
Nearly 100 Tamil Americans gathered outside of the Sri Lanka Mission to the United Nations in Midtown Manhattan on March 16, chanting for a cease-fire in the war torn northern region of Sri Lanka. In recent weeks, the Sri Lankan military has made significant advances on the Liberation Tiger of Thamil Eelam (LTTE), an ethnic […]
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Posted on 16 March 2009. Tags: subway
by Xiomara Martinez-White and Sergey Kadinsky The South Ferry loop on the 1 train opened in 1905, allowing a one-seat ride between the Staten Island ferry and Harlem. By 1946, subway trains were expanded to 8 cars, and the station became obsolete. Without room for growth, its tight loop forced passengers to move to the […]
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Posted on 14 March 2009. Tags: anxieties, brooklyn, economy, fears, housing market, Manhattan, New York City, park slope, real estate
By Lois DeSocio, Jacqueline Linge, Maureen Sullivan, and Brian Winkowski. The New York City real estate market is no longer immune to the real estate drop that is hitting the rest of the country. Home values and sales have decreased throughout the metropolitan area, according to the Real Estate Board of New York. As a […]
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Posted on 13 March 2009. Tags: Charles King, Harlem, HIV/AIDS, Housing Works, Mayor Bloomberg
D. D-minus. F. Those are the grades that HIV and AIDS advocates gave to New York City’s health care services.
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