Due to the premature deaths of first responders who worked on the pile after 9/11, the FDNY and NYPD pension funds are facing shortfalls that a bipartisan group of Congress members want FEMA to address. ( Photo: Peter Foley) Pension Shortfalls Created when 9/11 First Responders Die Young Hundreds of first responders from the NYPD and FDNY have died before their time from diseases caused by rescue and recovery... Voices 13 Sep 2024 | 06:33
James Caban, the first Latino to head the NYPD, resigned as commissioner on Sept. 12 after only 15 months in the top spot. He had rose through the ranks since joining the department as a police officer in the Bronx in 1991 but had come under pressure to resign after police seized his phone in a home raid that also targeted other top aides to Mayor Eric Adams. ( Photo: Associated Press) NYPD Commissioner Caban Resigns after Phone Was Seized in Federal Investigation NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned Sept 12, one week after it emerged that his phone... News 13 Sep 2024 | 04:37
An estimated 157 million Americans use chewing or bubble game, according to statistics ( Photo: Jim McKluskey/Wikimedia Commons) Here’s Something to Chew On It’s hard to pop this bubble. Over 157.23 million Americans are predicted to chomp on $3.5 billion dollars’ worth of bubble... News 13 Sep 2024 | 04:00
Julia Haart strikes a pose on the ramp before the show begins. she’s a fashion designer and entrepreneur who gained widespread attention through the Netflix series “My Unorthodox Life,” chronicling her personal and professional journey from leaving an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to a businesswoman. ( Photo By- Arundhati Kumar) Politicos Turn Into Fashionistas and Hit Runway at Bipartisan Gracie Mansion Fashion Show Local elected officials turned into fashionistas on Sept. 10 as they staged their own bipartisan fashion show at Gracie Mansion... News 13 Sep 2024 | 05:48
Amtrak, the owner of Penn Station which only recently opened the newly redesigned Seventh Ave. entrance to the underground rail hub, says it will convene a new study group with the MTA’s Long Island Railroad and NJ Transit to come up with a joint solution on the future development of the nation’s busiest rail hub. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Big 3 Railroads Plan to Work Together on New Plan for Penn Station; Activists Still Wary The railroads that use Penn Station are convening a working group of outside advocates to review, and support, their complicated... News 14 Sep 2024 | 04:15
The Great Elephant Migration has mounted public art in a unique way: 100 elephants in an orderly faux migration along lower 9th Avenue, a sight for Gotham residents to behold. They will be residing in this space until October 20. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) One Hundred Life-Size Elephant Sculptures Thunder into Meatpacking District, Here Through Oct. 20 A herd of 100 elephants thundered into the Meatpacking district earlier this month, but there is no danger of being trampled.... News 12 Sep 2024 | 02:30
An FDNY color guard streams pass the fountain in the vest pocket memorial park on W. 48th St. where friends and family members left red roses in memory of the 15 firefighters who died on 9-11 at Battalion 9, Engine 54, Truck 4 firehouse. It was the house that suffered the most casualties on 9-11. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) West Side House That Lost 15 Firefighters on 9-11 Marks Another Solemn Day Fifteen times the bell tolled as it has every year since 9-11, 2001 when 15 firefighters from Battalion 9, Engine 54 and... News 12 Sep 2024 | 11:37
Midtown South’s 13th Precinct commemorating the lives of police officers lost on 9/11. Police Benevolent Association head Patrick Hendry, right, gave a speech. ( Photo: Jack Ahern ) East Side NYPD Pct that Lost Four Members on 9/11 Honors Their Memory As the solemn 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was marked throughout Manhattan, NYPD officers from the 13th... News 11 Sep 2024 | 05:39
Mayor Eric Adams marching in September 8’s Labor Day Parade, one day before he announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. ( Photo: Mayor Eric Adams, X.com ) Mayor Eric Adams Has COVID-19 Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson for his administration confirmed to Straus News. He cancelled... News 09 Sep 2024 | 06:36
Though he captured each one of the 15 firefighters in the mid-town firehouse before they died on 9/11, he said he rarely if ever returns to the house where he was invited to live as a photographer in the year before the attack on the World Trade Center 23 years ago. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Photographer Remembers the Firefighters at West Side House That Suffered Greatest Number of Casualties on 9/11 On 9/11, shortly after 8:46 a.m., fifteen firefighters from Engine Company 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9–every man in the house... News 11 Sep 2024 | 11:08
Martha Rodriguez (72), a longtime nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital died in August from head injuries after being pushed to the ground outside her home. ( Photo: GoFundMe) Scholarship Fund Seeks to Raise Money in Honor of Nurse Who Died in Freak Accident The death of a nurse practitioner from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital last month was declared a homicide by the... News 09 Sep 2024 | 06:08
Dorothy Lawson (left) with Ethel will be performing a preview of their soon-to-be released newest album “Persist” at Merkin Hall in the Kaufman Music Center at Abraham Goodman House 129 West 67th Street. Allison Loggins-Hull on flute is a collaborator. ( Photo: Courtesy Ethel) Dorothy Lawson and the Ethel String Quartet Are Ready to Release a New Album When Canadian native Dorothy Lawson moved to New York City to study at Juilliard, she was immediately hooked. “New York won... Features 09 Sep 2024 | 02:06
Governor Hochul flanked by Manhattan Borough Presidents Mark Levine (left)and Queens Borough president Donovan Richards (right in dark suit) with AG Letitia James at right in the “1973” sweatshirt. A lonely Mayor Adams can be seen trailing behind. The word on his blue baseball cap is “LOVE.” ( GovKathyHochul Flickr) Labor Day Parade Marches Up 5th Ave, Not Wholly United Politicians in Tow Thousands of marchers and around that many spectators thronged to 5th Avenue from 44th to 64th streets Saturday September... News 09 Sep 2024 | 11:00
The Broadway Flea Market will take place on September 22, with online bidding already underway. ( Photo via BroadwayCares.org) Bid on Exclusive Show Biz Memorabilia at the Upcoming Broadway Flea Market The 2024 Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will take place on Sunday, Sept. 22, giving fans the chance to own one-of-a-kind... News 06 Sep 2024 | 05:37
A DOT depiction of the offset bus lane proposal at 96th St., which would stretch crosstown between the UES and the UWS. Now, UWS politician Gale Brewer has come out in opposition to much of her neighborhood’s portion. ( Photo: DOT ) Bus Battle: Some Local Activists Oppose Adding Offset Lanes on W. 96th St. A group of Upper West Side locals oppose a NYC Department of Transportation plan to install offset bus lanes on their neighborhood’s... News 08 Sep 2024 | 10:01
