NY Daily News – February 21, 2015 by Joseph Stepansky, Thomas Tracy It wasn’t a fire – just a troubled water pipe. The pipe froze, leading to a smoke condition that forced firefighters to rip down a wall in Art Garfunkel’s Upper East Side penthouse apartment, a rep for the singer said Friday. Firefighters were […]
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Queens Woman Receives Life-Saving Double Lung Transplant Following Social Media Campaign
NY Daily News – February 21, 2015 by Lisa L. Colangelo, Thomas Tracy A little oomph went a long way for a Queens woman who received a life-saving double lung transplant, friends said Friday. Katy Starck Monte — whose friends started the social media campaign #oomphforkaty to raise awareness — is on the road to […]
Lung Transplant Patient From Queens Eager To See Pooch
NY Daily News – February 22, 2015 by Thomas Tracy When she begins breathing on her own and gets out of the hospital — after a nearly three-month stay — Katy Starck Monte has a date with her beloved shih tzu, family members said Saturday. “The first thing she is going to want to do […]
Man Holds his Family Hostage, Burns Apartment
NY Post – February 18, 2015 by Frank Rosario and Kirstan Conley A raging Bronx man held his family hostage and lit his family’s apartment on fire — sending nine cops, two firefighters, his mother and himself to the hospital on Tuesday, his brother and authorities said. “My brother just got out of jail for […]
4-Year-Old Clings to Life after NYC Fire
NY Post – February 18, 2015 by Natasha Velez A four-year-old who’s already a budding young artist is fighting for his life in a Brooklyn hospital after being critically injured in an early morning fire while his parents are overseas on a religious pilgrimage, officials and neighbors said. Little Bilal Elmaghraby and his three siblings […]
Mother Allegedly Slashed by Son Rescued from Burning Bronx Building
NY Daily News – February 18, 2015 by Kerry Burke And Joseph Stepansky Police and firefighters called to a Bronx apartment found lots of smoke — and a mother who was viciously slashed across her face, allegedly by her teen son. Nine police officers were choked by smoke as a man identified by family […]
NYPD Beats Out FDNY 40-33 in Annual Basketball Game
WPIX 11 – February 16, 2015 by Joe Mauceri MANHATTAN (PIX11)– While most of All-Star Weekend is naturally about the NBA All-Stars, Sunday was about New York’s All-Stars at the Barclays Center for the annual New York Heroes Game. The FDNY and NYPD played each other in hard-fought game on the hardwood for bragging rights, […]
Shafted! New York City’s Worst Elevators
NY Post – February 16, 2015 by Andrea Hay and Gary Buiso It’s not just residents in public housing who are left high and dry by defective elevators. The FDNY responded to 30,290 calls last year for stalled elevators and people trapped inside lifts. The worst elevators in the city, outside of NYCHA, are in […]
Firefighters Rescue Two Teens Trapped on Ice in Queens
NY 1 – February 17, 2015 Firefighters rescued two teenagers trapped on the ice after going for a Valentine’s day stroll on Little Neck Bay. Fire officials say they received calls about the pair around 5 p.m. Saturday According to the FDNY, they were about 300 to 400 feet from the shore when they […]
Brooklyn Family Jumps from Third-Floor Window to Escape Fire
NY Daily News – February 17, 2015 by Dale Eisinger, Chelsia Rose Marcius, Stephen Rex Brown A roaring fire at a Brooklyn housing project Monday forced a family of three to jump for their lives from a third-story window, leaving the mother with two broken legs, witnesses said. The blaze at the Roosevelt Houses […]
