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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, […]

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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 […]

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Exclusive: City Councilman Proposes Painting Curbs Red to Mark No-Parking Zones Around Fire Hydrants, Bus Stops

NY Daily News – February 10, 2015 by Erin Durkin, Caitlin Nolan Drivers would start seeing red under a new bill being introduced this week by a city councilman. The proposal would require the city to paint curbs red to mark no-parking zones around fire hydrants and bus stops. Sponsor Vincent Gentile (D-Brooklyn) said the […]

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Funding in de Blasio Budget Aims to Cut Ambulance Response Times

Associated Press – February 09, 2015 by JONATHAN LEMIRE The New York City Fire Department will receive additional funding in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s upcoming budget to increase staffing in hopes of shaving precious seconds off ambulance response times to medical emergencies, city officials said. City officials told The Associated Press yesterday, a day before […]

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Hospital Archives Burn in Brooklyn Warehouse Fire

The Wall Street Journal – February 02, 2015 by Melanie Grayce West and Mark Morales A stubborn weekend fire at a Brooklyn document warehouse that unleashed a blizzard of singed paperwork over Williamsburg could smolder for several more days, city officials said Sunday.   The fire at the CitiStorage document-storage building pumped towering columns of […]

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