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General Contractor, Home Owners, Plumber Face Manslaughter Charges in Connection to 2015’S Deadly East Village Explosion

NY Daily News – February 12, 2016 by Shayna Jacobs, Stephen Rex Brown They wanted to save money on gas — and it wound up costing two lives. Five people were charged Thursday with rigging an elaborate gas delivery system in an East Village building, causing a massive explosion last March that killed two people […]

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Burned Firefighter Released from Hospital as Fellow Bravest Applaud

SI Advance – February 04, 2016 by Nicholas Woodman STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighter Lawrence Wasser, 23, who suffered severe burns to his hands fighting a three-alarm blaze in Huguenot on Monday, has been released from the Staten Island University Hospital Burn Unit. Wasser, a New Springville resident and propartionary firefighter who graduated from the […]

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FDNY Rescues Injured Man from Car in the Water

SI Advance – February 03, 2016 by Maura Grunlund STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The FDNY has removed a man after a car that careened into the water in a swampy, wooded area off of Arthur Kill Road on Tuesday morning. The address supplied by authorities, 1297 Arthur Kill Road, is the same as for the […]

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Arbitrator’s Draft Contract Backs Police Union Into a Corner

Capital NY – November 04, 2015 by Gloria Pazmino and Laura Nahmias The head of the city’s rank-and-file police officer union seems to have lost a bid to get substantial raises for the city’s 24,000 officers. In a draft contract distributed Monday, an independent arbitrator proposed that Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch’s officers follow […]

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