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. […]
Art Garfunkel’s NYC Penthouse Damaged by Smoky Troubled Water Pipe, Rep Says
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 […]
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 […]
