NYC Sentinel

Hundreds protest 9/11 trials in Lower Manhattan

By Amy Brittain Hundreds brought signs and their loud voices to protest the Obama administration's plans to carry out civilian trials in Lower Manhattan for the five alleged co-conspirators of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Longstanding incumbent and enterprising newcomer battle for Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights

By Sujay Kumar Voters in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights cast their ballots in the general election today and chose whether to mark line E and elect 46-year-old newcomer Mark Winston Griffith, or to go with line A and allow the 74-year-old incumbent, Albert Vann, to reclaim his City Council office.

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Diplomacy … with diamonds

Madeleine Albright can give as good as she gets. Take the incident in 1994, when she criticized Saddam Hussein’s policies, and was called an “unparalleled serpent” in the Iraqi press. The former Secretary of State responded by arriving at her next meeting with Iraqi officials with a serpent on her shoulder: an 18-karat gold snake [...]

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A slow day at the poll booths

Amanda Cruz, 23, flipped through the pages of an urban thriller novel, resting her chin in her hand on Sept. 15 at the primary elections in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As a poll worker for the 74th Election District, she didn’t have much to do. By 2 p.m. her eyes started to droop. “I got [...]

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