Last night, a 57-year-old woman was killed in Staten Island when the driver of a SUV slammed into her around 9:50 p.m. Police say that Clara Almazo had been crossing Cary Avenue at Elizabeth Street with her 8-year-old grandson, on their way home from Holy Thursday church services—witnesses say and surveillance footage shows Almazo pushing the child out of the way before the car hit her. A family friend told the Daily News, “That was heroic of her, thinking about the boy until the last second. They were coming from church. They are very religious people.” [ more › ]
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Grandmother Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver After She Pushed Grandson Out Of Way
Yonkers Contracting, which won the $116 million MTA contract to do work on the 7 train extension project, is under investigation by the Manhattan DA’s office, which seized the company’s records yesterday in the wake of a fatal crane collapse Tuesday night . It’s not the first time the company has been under investigation— the Daily News reports that in 1992, federal investigators alleged that Yonkers Contracting made annual $50,000 payments to the crane operators union run by the Colombo crime family. The company denied any mafia connections, but it’s been repeatedly fined for safety violations over the years. [ more › ]
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DA Investigates Fatal Midtown Crane Collapse, Contractor Previously Accused Of Mob Ties
The Brooklyn man charged with murder after police found his roommate in pieces in his refrigerator has confessed, according to police. One NYPD source tells the Daily News Sergey Mamonov, 50, “was very matter of fact. He didn’t want to say anything at first, but once he started talking, he wouldn’t shut up. He said he decided there was no other way to take care of (the victim).” What happened to the old days, when roommates settled their differences with a passive-aggressive note, or a stern admonishment to ” Shut up, little man “? [ more › ]
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Roommate Was Killed, Dismembered, Stored In Fridge Because He "Wouldn’t Shut Up"
A Manhattan kitty recently threw such a hissy fit that its owner had to call the cops. For real. The Daily News today has the story of 2-year-old tuxedo tabby Aqua—who got so upset about something he went and threw himself through a glass window pane in Inwood. Fortunately, the fuzz collared the frisky feline before fur flew fatally! [ more › ]
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Cops Called To Contain Crazy House Cat
Over the weekend Alec Baldwin, who turns 54 years old today, proposed to his girlfriend, 28-year-old yoga instructing Hilaria Thomas, while the two were away in Montauk. How do we all know this? Because Alec Baldwin is very famous! So naturally, this important life moment that would normally be kept amongst friends and family for the rest of us, was splashed about in the newspapers. It comes with the territory of being famous, and the two likely weren’t going to keep it a secret anyway, as they’ve documented their love for each other in many public Tweets. But Baldwin went off on Twitter last night after one newspaper, The Daily News , sent photographers to his fiance’s yoga class to get photos of the ring. [ more › ]
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Alec Baldwin Melts Down On Twitter After Daily News Shows Up To His Fiance’s Yoga Class
In the wake of Keith Olbermann’s dismissal from Current TV, The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz has obtained email correspondence between Olbermann’s camp and the network’s staff. Though there are no mentions of California Condor-egg omelets, Kurtz finds that shortly after Olbermann was hired last summer, his manager sent a list of 40 “deficiencies” that needed “immediate attention.” [ more › ]
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Keith Olbermann’s Emails Show Current TV Gig Was Sour From Start
A week after the New York Post falsely conflated the work of the homeless advocacy group Picture the Homeless with “pimps” and “hookers,” the paper obtained a letter from City Counsel attorney Elizabeth Fine asking for a probe of the non-profit that may shut off its funding—PTH was scheduled to receive $50K this fiscal year. The Post’s subheadline for the web article begins, ” ‘Picture’ this:” Yeah! Take that, organization working to enact meaningful social change. [ more › ]
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City Mulls Funding Freeze To Homeless Advocacy Group After NY Post Article
Only a week after Linsanity rose from the dead as the Knicks put together a winning streak under new coach Mike Woodson, Jeremy Lin made the depressing announcement that he would need knee surgery to “repair a partially torn meniscus in his left knee.” Following his sobering press conference (which you can watch below), Lin tweeted optimistically : “Thx for all the love! Ill return from this surgery stronger/better than before and hopefully in time for the playoffs! Ecclesiastes 3:1&11.” But can the Knicks make the playoffs—let alone make any sort of playoff run—without him? [ more › ]
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Linsult To Linjury: Do The Knicks Have Any Playoff Hopes Without Jeremy Lin?
One hundred forty-two people (not 100 as previously noted ) had lottery tickets that were one number away from the winning combination . So a little crying over Lady Luck is to be expected, right? [ more › ]
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2nd Place Mega Millions Winners Upset… But $250,000 Is Better Than Nothing
We’re still trying to understand exactly what happened in Manhattan Criminal Court over the past two weeks that led to former police office Michael Pena —who had been on trial for the alleged rape of a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August—not getting convicted of rape , despite being convicted of three counts of predatory sexual assault. More information has leaked out about the holdout jurors: the Daily News reports that at least one juror didn’t believe the victim because she could not recall the color of a car parked by the courtyard where she was attacked: “If she doesn’t remember these details, how does she know she was penetrated,” one juror said, according to their sources. [ more › ]
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The Most Outrageous Thing Said By A "Gunpoint Rape" Cop Juror