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Morning train derails: None injured, commute slowed
A Brooklyn-bound No. 2 train derailed Monday morning at the Park Place station. New York City Transit officials said no one was injured and that all commuters were safely evacuated. The derailment, still under investigation by New York City Transit, halted both No. 2 and 3 trains in both directions. Service still was halted on both [...]
Continue reading...Big Wheels on the fast track
Monday, October 12, 2009
Some people are very serious about alternative transportation. Others are not. Jeff Grandberg is one of the latter. He’s in it for the fun. And the adrenaline rush. Grandberg and more than 200 others gathered in Central Park on Saturday afternoon whooped and hollered riding Big Wheels, tricycles, skateboards or homemade contraptions down some of the steepest [...]
Continue reading...Cell phone safety spurs writer’s paranoia
Saturday, October 3, 2009
I’m going die. From brain cancer. I’m sure of it. I spent the better part of today working on a story about cell phone radiation and the potential risk of it causing brain cancer. The whole story has spawned an incessant paranoia in my mind. Here’s the scene: I’m sitting at the computer. I have a landline within reach, [...]
Continue reading...Transit workers take fight to the streets
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Transit Workers Union members are seething mad. Mad at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mad at Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mad about not having their contracts honored. And they are threatening to shut down the city. “We’re gonna bring hell to this town,” said Kenny Onunkwo, the former vice chairman of the motorman division, which oversees train operators.
Continue reading...MTA cuts agents at 17 Brooklyn subway stations
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Some Brooklyn subway riders felt lonlier this week. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority eliminated positions at 17 Brooklyn stations. The staffing cuts, part of MTA’s plan to cut agents at 86 stations across New York City, removes 772 subway employees, according to New York City Transit spokesman Charles Seaton.
Continue reading...Police out in force for Obama visit
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The lunch hour on Wall Street was a little more crowded than usual Monday. Thousands thronged to the financial district to hear President Barack Obama give a noontime address on the financial crisis. The timing was deliberate: The one-year anniversary of the fall of global financial services firm Lehman Brothers. The crowds that came to see the [...]
Continue reading...Back to school: Capturing the first day
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
By Clare O'Connor and Ruth Schneider Summer vacation officially ended for New York City’s 1.1 million public school students, who started a new academic year today. The NYC Sentinel dispatched reporters to Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan to capture the first morning of elementary school.
Continue reading...P.S. 321: Eager for a new year
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Alyson Cook dragged her mother to Public School 321 an hour early out of excitement about the first day of school. She could not be pried away from the schoolyard. It was 7:30 a.m. and her mother, Selena Coppa, wanted coffee. So she brought out the big guns — offers of juice and snacks — to [...]
Continue reading...A different world at P.S. 321
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
I grew up watching “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Going out to Brooklyn for the first day of school, I expected to see little Barbarinos, Horshacks, Washingtons and Epsteins running around. But the Park Slope neighborhood and the children who attend Public School 321 are a far cry from the high school hijinks of the Sweathogs. Isaac Harris, a spunky [...]
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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