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nydailynews.com A company that hawked gun-shaped lighters in its Times Square store got burned by an unfair $60,000 city fine, says a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court this week. US Camera & Computers says the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs was “arbitrary and capricious” when it fined the store in 2011 for carrying the small, weapon-like butane lighters. City rules prohibit selling items that could be mistaken for actual [...] One of the Boston Marathon terrorists bought three pounds of explosive powder from the same fireworks company that sold firecrackers to the Times square bomber, it emerged today. Tamerlan Tsarnaev asked for the ‘biggest and loudest’ pyrotechnics on offer at Phantom Fireworks in New Hampshire two months before his terror attack that killed three and injured more than 280. It is believed the powder may have been packed into one of two [...] Manhattan: 2643 Broadway & West 100 St. NYPD on scene with a suspicious package requesting ESU to respond. Bomb Squad notified. NY03 https://twitter.com/NYCityAlerts NYC UPDATE *ALERT TO POLICE* Lookout for Honda CRV, MA Plate #36ES9 – Poss heading to #Manhattan Male white may be wearing suicide vest https://twitter.com/Breaking911 NYPD WARNS OF WHITE MALE HEADING TOWARDS MANHATTAN WITH POSSIBLE SUICIDE VEST — SCANNER NYC: PAPS NY/NJ & NYPD & NYSP on the lookout for a grey [...] “Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don’t have any connection with the Boston Explosions,” Ihsan said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the Times Square bombing in 2010. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-marathon/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 They work for some of the biggest businesses in the United States, yet they are among the country’s lowest-paid workers. On Thursday, fast-food workers staged walkouts at McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell and other restaurants in New York City to call attention to their plight. Organizers scheduled the job actions to commemorate the day Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago in Memphis, where he was supporting a strike [...] Gas-like smell reported across metro area video here FOX 8 WVUE New Orleans News, Weather, Sports http://www.fox8live.com/story/21867220/gas-like-smell
Widespread mystery odor reported across New Orleans area — Oil, natural gas suspected — Coast Guard investigating (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/widespread-reports-of-strong-mystery-odor-all-around-new-orleans-area-oil-natural-gas-suspected-coast-guard-investigating-video
EIA estimates that there are 2,203 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas that is technically recoverable in the United States. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=58&t=8 Release of 100 pounds of hydrogen sulfide caused mystery odor in New Orleans? Report: Actual amount is “far more” Published: April [...] Furchtgott-Roth to Moneynews: Economy Might Shrink Again in First Quarter The January job numbers reported Friday are weak, and gross domestic product (GDP) growth stands a good chance of remaining negative in the first quarter, says Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Non-farm payrolls gained 157,000 last month, a bit lower than expectations, and the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in December. Meanwhile, the economy contracted 0.1 percent in [...] Trying to cash in on the end of the busy holiday season, one airline is promoting flights from Boston to New York for only $12. The limited offer, which so far almost 10,000 people have taken up airline Cape Air on is based on a way way flight and is an attempt to qualify for a federal grant to transform Lebanon Airport in New Hampshire. What the airline and Cape Air are [...] NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man dressed as a Super Mario Brother has been arrested for groping a woman in New York City’s Times Square. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPER_MARIO_ARREST A New York police officer’s spontaneous act of kindness has captured the praise of hundreds of thousands of people across the internet. A tourist from Arizona captured a heartwarming photo of Lawrence Deprimo kneeling down to give a barefoot homeless man a pair of winter boots on a cold night earlier this month. The NYPD posted the photo on its Facebook page, an effort to show the softer side of the nation’s [...] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Fifth Avenue, the storied stretch of Manhattan synonymous with high-end shopping, couture and extravagant indulgences, is no longer the blingiest binge on the block. … According to the study, New York still has hefty representation on the list of most expensive retail rental rates, but Hong Kong has taken over. Three of the top five retail rental rates are now in Hong Kong, two are in New York. … Hong Kong’s [...] In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Manhattan became a city divided in two – above 39th Street and below 39th street. The reason for the split? Above 39th Street the power never went off. It was like nothing had happened. Below 39th Street, it was a different story. Early on Tuesday morning there were joggers in Riverside Park and dog walkers taking pets out for a stroll.
Shops were open, the sun was shining. [...] Follow us @ Welcome to Capital Account. An EU parliament committee voted unanimously to back tighter restrictions on banks’ trading activities, including a proposed curb on high frequency trading. We talk to our guest David Greenberg, former NYMEX board member, about where the United States stands on high frequency trading. Also, oil rebounded from the lowest close in almost two months, supposedly on speculation that China will take stimulus measures. We have [...] We live in a germy world, says William Schaffner, infectious-disease specialist and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. “If we went down to Times Square and began culturing people’s noses, something like 10% to 20% of them carry the antibiotic-resistant staph infection MRSA,” he adds. For the most part, however, those bacteria are harmless since we all have immunities against [...] Police removed a mentally disturbed man in an Elmo costume from New York City’s Central Park Zoo on Sunday afternoon. The man was spouting anti-Jewish insults, including encouraging visitors at the zoo to read “The International Jew” — an anti-Semitic series of pamphlets published by Henry Ford. The anti-Semitic Elmo made his first appearance in 2009 in Times Square, demanding people give him money to take pictures of him. Berating people who refused to give him [...] Several thousand New Yorkers calmly invaded Times Square Wednesday, transforming it into an immense outdoor yoga class to salute the arrival of summer. Some 1,500 yoga mats were distributed free for the occasion, and pedestrian spaces in New York’s most frenetic crossroads were completely covered. All day, thousands of yogis, beginners and veterans alike, dutifully sweated in the heat, following directions broadcast over loudspeakers. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/thousands-yoga-fans-over-times-square-205907888.html Picture: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/01/article-2138126-12DECFD5000005DC-985_634x947.jpg It is an image that captured an epic moment in U.S. history – a sailor locked in a passionate kiss with a nurse in New York City’s Times Square at the end of World War II. For decades, the identity of the pair in the 1945 photograph has been disputed. Now, a new book promises to resolve the long-held mystery by revealing 89-year-olds George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman as the couple [...] by Washington Blog Marine Sergeant Schools the NYPD on Wall Street Protests Demotix reports: Last night at Occupy Wall Street in Times Square, Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas boldly defended the occupiers. Sergeant Thomas calmly asked the NYPD why they aren’t protecting the peaceful protestors. The NYPD ignored his questions and continued telling protestors to leave the sidewalk otherwise “they’d get hurt.” Then, in an [...] Watch live streaming video from occupynyc at livestream.com NEW YORK (AP) — They were out to change the world, overthrow the establishment and liberate the poor. But first somebody would have to do something about those bongo drums. At the Occupy Wall Street protest camp in Manhattan, protesters agonized over what to do about drum players who had turned part of the site into an impromptu dance floor. The [...] OP-ED COLUMNIST If Brian Harrison and W. G. Stover, the two Solyndra executives who took the Fifth Amendment at a Congressional hearing on Friday, ever spend a day in jail, I’ll stand on my head in Times Square. It’s not going to happen, for one simple reason: neither they, nor anyone else connected with Solyndra, have done anything remotely criminal. [...] BofA, Wells Fargo Downgraded by Moody’s Guy Calaf/Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. signage is displayed at a branch in Times Square, New York. Bank of America Corp. signage is displayed at a branch in Times Square, New York. Photographer: Guy Calaf/Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) had long-term credit ratings downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service, which said U.S. support has become less likely if lenders get [...] Andrew Savulich/News Windshield washer gives car a good swipe on Sunday – a sight seldom seen since 1990s Squeegee men, the aggressive panhandlers who wash your car windows whether you want them to or not, are back. Armed with buckets and $5 squeegees, a squad of men waded into stalled Times Square traffic Sunday to lather up windshields, swipe them clean and beckon for tips from drivers – some annoyed by [...] NEW YORK – A New York City judge says the head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges. A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared Monday before a Manhattan judge. Prosecutors had asked the judge to hold Strauss-Kahn without bail. His attorneys had suggested that prosecutors set $1 million bail and promised the IMF managing director would remain [...] NEW YORK – A New York City judge says the head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges. A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared Monday before a Manhattan judge. Prosecutors had asked the judge to hold Strauss-Kahn without bail. His attorneys had suggested that prosecutors set $1 million bail and promised [...] There was no rejoicing in Times Square when Hirohito died, though he ordered the killing of 2350 Americans in Pearl Harbor. I remember no such gladness when Hitler died, or Ho Chi Minh, or Mao Tse Tung. Or Che Guevara. Or Salvador Allende. Or Joseph Stalin. These laughing, flag-waving, crowded scenes outside the White House and across America have no precedent (except, perhaps, in the South [...] |
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