By Kathleen Culliton and Aidan Gardiner | September 1, 2016 10:53am |Updated on September 1, 2016 6:54pm The Department of Buildings will investigate the West 86th Street construction accident, officials said.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Kathleen Culliton UPPER WEST SIDE — Two construction workers were knocked into a 10-foot-deep cellar by a door frame that became dislodged Thursday morning, officials said. The pair was […]
Eleven kayakers including a child were rescued and at least five were injured after a collision with a NY Waterway ferry at Pier 79 on the Hudson River today, officials from the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) said via Facebook. One kayaker with serious injuries had been taken to Bellevue Hospital and four kayakers with lesser injuries were been taken to Mount Sinai […]
By Maura Grunlund | grunlund@siadvance.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August 30, 2016 at 2:09 PM, updated August 31, 2016 at 6:04 AM Update: The 37-year-old man who leaped from the span died at Richmond University Medical Center. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities confirmed that a person jumped from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge […]
Twelve trucks were on the scene and the FDNY brought the situation under control at about 11:45 a.m., the FDNY said. By Sarah Kaufman (Patch Staff) – August 30, 2016 12:40 pm ET LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — A “smoke condition” in a five-story building sparked an all-hands-on-deck fire on the roof of a residential […]
By Nicole Brown nicole.brown@amny.com August 30, 2016 Streets were closed Tuesday morning after a water main break on the Upper West Side Monday night. The water main broke around 9:30 p.m. on Amsterdam Avenue between West 89th and West 90th streets, causing flooding on nearby streets. The break caused a sport utility vehicle parked […]
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ousand of first responders and citizens developed cancer following the September 11 terror attacks. MARK CANTRELL PUBLISHED: AUGUST 29, 2016 – See more at: http://www.curetoday.com/publications/cure/2016/summer-2016/rescuing-the-rescuers-the-effort-to-cover-and-monitor-911-responders-for-lung-disease-and-cancer#sthash.IhrcD9k3.dpuf hen terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring almost 9,000 more, it wasn’t the end of the tragedy. In the days […]
BY DIANE HERBST @DianeHerbst 08/29/2016 AT 03:45 PM EDT In 1986, NYPD Detective Steven McDonald was shot and left paralyzed from the neck down. While he was in the hospital, he received a visit from Father Mychal Judge, who kneeled beside him and prayed in his ear.”And I felt so close to God,” McDonald tells […]
The service will honor the four individuals from Glen Cove who lost their lives on this tragic day 15 years ago. The City of Glen Cove will hold a special sunset ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 11 in honor of the 15th anniversary of that tragic day. The community will remember the 2,997 people whose […]
ONE-HOUR ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY REPORTED BY CNBC’S JIM CRAMER CNBC ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY GIVES AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK INSIDE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., August 29, 2016 – As the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the World Trade Center has emerged as a place reborn. It is the sacred ground where more than […]
