Chief Leader – March 03, 2015 by SARAH DORSEY Mayor Michael Bloomberg managed his 911-system overhaul so poorly that it was sheer luck that contractors merely overbilled the city by hundreds of millions of dollars and didn’t directly steal funds. Or so Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark G. Peters claimed at a City Council hearing […]
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Elderly Brooklyn Woman Perishes in Fire Started By Faulty Electrical Wiring
The Wall Street Journal – March 03, 2015 by Joe Jackson An elderly Brooklyn woman died Sunday night after a fire started by faulty electrical wiring engulfed her home, officials said. Kathryn Johnson, who was 89 years old and lived in the borough’s Bay Ridge section, was pronounced dead on arrival at Lutheran Medical Center […]
Quick-Thinking Man Survives being Run Over by Subway Train
NY Post – February 27, 2015 by Natasha Velez, Rebecca Harshbarger and Amber Sutherland He showed good street smarts for a guy from rural Indiana. Chris Marshall faced every commuter’s nightmare when he fell on the subway tracks as a train was barreling into the station — but his split second decision to roll into […]
Man Left Critically Injured when Fire Tears through Lower East Side Apartment
NY Daily News – February 27, 2015 by Joseph Stepansky A man was critically injured when a fire tore through a Lower East Side apartment on Wednesday, authorities said. The man, who was in his 50s, was rushed from the burning apartment on E. 13 St. at Ave. C around 2:50 p.m., a Fire Department […]
NYC Council Criticizes Long-Awaited, $2 Billion 911 System
The Wall Street Journal – February 26, 2015 by Mara Gay New York City council members sharply criticized Wednesday the remaking of the city’s 911 system, a $2 billion-plus, more-than-decade-long project that remains incomplete. A report by the city’s Department of Investigation this month outlined what it called “persistent mismanagement” of the 911 system overhaul […]
Council Members Slam de Blasio Administration for Mismanagement of City’s 911 System
NY Daily News – February 26, 2015 by Erin Durkin City Council members charged on Wednesday that the de Blasio administration isn’t doing enough to overhaul the city’s troubled 911 system after an investigation found the project was badly mismanaged for years. The de Blasio administration halted work after the Department of Investigation found that […]
Oh Say, Can We Breathe? Anthem Members Await Word on Hacking
Chief Leader – February 24, 2015 by DAN ROSENBLUM Hundreds of thousands of city employees may be eligible for identity-theft-repair and credit-monitoring services after hackers accessed the data of as many as 80 million health-insurance members nationwide. Employees covered by Empire BlueCross BlueShield could be affected by the cyberattack on its parent company, Anthem, one […]
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Chief Leader – February 24, 2015 In what is being billed as McMayhem in Midtown, Fire Department boxers will be taking on brawlers from the Irish National Police Force, accompanied by a top featherweight contender from the Emerald Isle, March 14 in what FDNY Bravest boxing team president Bobby McGuire calls the first pro-am boxing […]
Op-Ed: Risking it All for $27/Day
Queens Courier – February 24, 2015 by STEVE CASSIDY When the FDNY began its efforts to recruit New York City firefighter candidates back in 2011, it sold them on the merits of “the best job in the world has the best benefits in the world.” Now, several years later, it appears that the city failed […]
Artist and His Dog Die in NYC Apartment Blaze
NY Post – February 24, 2015 by Ben Feuerherd and Dana Sauchelli A Manhattan artist and his dog were killed early Monday when a fire tore through his apartment, cops said. Dutch painter Edward Albers, 59, was inside his East 16th Street home in Gramercy when the third-floor blaze erupted just after midnight, officials said. […]
