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Man Arrested for Climbing Brooklyn Bridge to Appear in Court
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A Russian tourist is due back in court today after police caught him climbing the Brooklyn Bridge this past weekend.
Charges against Yaroslav Kolchin,24, include reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing.
http://www.ny1.com/content/news/214420/man-arrested-for-climbing-brooklyn-bridge-to-appear-in-court/
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)NY1
Queens will be the center of the tennis world again today as the 2014 U.S. Open begins in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
http://www.ny1.com/content/news/214425/tennis-pros--fans-swing-into-queens-for-u-s--open/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Anthony Johnson
MORRIS HEIGHTS (WABC) -- A child care worker in the Bronx is charged with manslaughter in the death of a little boy left in her care.
40-year old Athena Skeeter is being held without bail.
http://7online.com/news/caregiver-charged-with-manslaughter-after-death-of-bronx-toddler/278748/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)BENSONHURST (WABC) -- Two NYPD officers came to the rescue of a baby boy who had stopped breathing in Brooklyn Sunday night.
At about 11:15 p.m., Sergeant Michael Dario and his operator, Police Officer Elias Khan, were on routine patrol when they responded to a 911 call of an aided child having difficulty breathing at 2059 74th Avenue in Bensonhurst.
http://7online.com/news/2-nypd-officers-save-baby-not-breathing-in-bensonhurst/279858/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Anthony Johnson
STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- The NYPD is investigating what they are calling a possible bias incident on Staten Island.
Several cars were vandalized and spray painted Saturday night in the same neighborhood as the March Against Police Brutality in the wake of the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner.
http://7online.com/news/nypd-investigating-bias-attack-after-cars-vandalized-on-staten-island/279282/
hrmjustin
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(71,265 posts)Short article with video
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(71,265 posts)Ross Barkan
Latrice Walker, a Democratic candidate for an open Brooklyn Assembly seat, scored the endorsement of Public Advocate Letitia James this morning.
The endorsement comes as little surprise in the competitive Brownsville race–Ms. Walker served as treasurer on Ms. James’ successful 2013 campaign for public advocate.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/letitia-james-endorses-latrice-walker-for-old-boyland-seat/#ixzz3BPy17cWL
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Will Bredderman
The Working Families Party has endorsed Rubain Dorancy to take Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ former State Senate seat.
The union-backed third party said it was supporting Mr. Dorancy over rival Jesse Hamilton–a former aide to Mr. Adams once seen as his heir apparent–because of what they described as his liberal bona fides.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/working-families-party-backs-dorancy-for-state-senate/#ixzz3BPyPm3cQ
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hrmjustin
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(71,265 posts)Nick Reisman
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Monday endorsed Democratic Sen. Adriano Espaillat in his primary campaign.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/08/dinapoli-endorses-espaillat/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Liz Benjamin
As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.
In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella’s “tireless work” on some of the organization’s key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children’s products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.
“Whether he was leading the charge on the Child Safe Products Act, or making sure regulations are in place that will safeguard our drinking water from hydraulic fracturing, Tony has kept the environment a top issue in the Senate,” the email states.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/08/nylcv-taps-avella-as-pre-primary-top-priority/
hrmjustin
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(71,265 posts)Karina Longworth
From 1995 until January 2009, a music and movie megastore called Mondo Kim’s took up the bulk of a five-story building at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village. The top floor was rented out as apartments, and the fourth floor was used by Yongman Kim—the owner of the building and of Mondo Kim’s—as office space. The third floor held what was widely considered to be the best, most diverse video-rental collection in New York City.
And then there was a basement, a dank, moldy, low-ceilinged space. At some point—around the summer of 2007, according to former employees—Kim had the idea to turn this basement into a dungeon.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-09-12/film/kims-%20video-Sicily?utm_content=buffer60cfa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HEMPSTEAD (WABC) -- Police on Long Island have arrested a mother is accused of driving drunk with her toddler in the car.
Officers pulled over 27-year-old Araceli Mondragon-Vargas on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead just after 4 a.m. Sunday because they say her minivan was swerving between lanes.
http://7online.com/traffic/li-woman-charged-with-dwi-with-toddler-in-car/280089/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)JAN RANSOM
A notorious Harlem eyesore is finally being restored.
The long-vacant Public School 186 will be redeveloped into a home for the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem that will include housing for dozens of low- and middle-income families.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/boys-girls-club-set-bring-vacant-harlem-school-back-life-article-1.1914072
hrmjustin
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(71,265 posts)City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer on his homeless childhood, calls for residents to be part of the solution
JIMMY VAN BRAMER
A young father enters a colorless room holding his infant son while his wife sits nearby trying to believe this isn’t happening. Their older kids, not much older than the infant, stay close. They are all tired and they are all homeless. The father tells the intake worker that they had been staying with friends but had to leave and now have nowhere else to turn. He asks for help because they have no money and his baby son just needs a bottle of milk.
The father is 25, it is 1970 in New York City, and I am that baby boy.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jimmy-van-bramer-homeless-childhood-calling-solution-article-1.1914846
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Ross Barkan
Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed State Senator Gustavo Rivera’s re-election bid against Councilman Fernando Cabrera this afternoon.
Mr. Rivera, Bronx lawmaker, is facing an aggressive primary challenge from Mr. Cabrera, a socially conservative councilman who was once a Republican.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/bill-de-blasio-endorses-gustavo-riveras-re-election-bid/#ixzz3BQmTJ3yc
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Eliza Shapiro and Sally Goldenberg
Mayor Bill de Blasio previewed the city's $145 million after-school expansion on Monday, announcing that 78,000 middle schoolers will have access to the programs by the end of the upcoming school year.
Along with his massive pre-K initiative, de Blasio pledged during the campaign and as mayor to expand after-school programs to every middle-schooler in the city. After-school programming will expand to 85,000 middle-schoolers next year.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/08/8551362/de-blasio-offers-update-after-school-expansion
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Eliza Shapiro
Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña on Monday announced the 73 schools that will participate the Learning Partners Program, an effort she has dubbed her "signature program."
The program, which matches a successful "host" school with two struggling schools, facilitates meetings between school leaders from all three to improve the two "partner" schools.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/08/8551365/fari%C3%B1a-announces-73-schools-joining-her-signature-program?top-featured-2
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Will Bredderman
Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that he and his administration would take the blame for the recent security breakdowns on the Brooklyn Bridge.
After another man was able to scale the city’s most famous span yesterday–just a month after German artists were able to plant white flags atop both of its towers and less than a week after protestors unfurled a pro-Palestine flag on the nearby Manhattan Bridge–Mr. de Blasio said the buck stops with him and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/bill-de-blasio-hold-me-accountable-for-brooklyn-bridge-breaches/#ixzz3BRYyX5T6
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Will Bredderman
Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters today that he is a “humble” man when explaining why he allows taxpayers to foot the bill for his personal transportation expenses.
After a reporter asked why he lets the public pay for his gas, tolls and subway rides–and those of his police escort–the mayor proclaimed his modest background.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/de-blasio-on-city-paying-transportation-costs-im-a-humble-guy/#ixzz3BRZFsJRZ
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)JENNIFER FERMINO
The city might get sued over its decision to award $42 million in grant money to school bus companies to boost worker's pay, Mayor de Blasio acknowledged on Monday.
But he isn't worried because he believes it was the right decision, and the courts will agree, he said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/mayor-de-blasio-acknowledges-lawsuits-42-million-bus-contracts-blog-entry-1.1916282
