Posted by in New York on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Cab Driver Seeks Monetary Help After Stabbing
Cab Driver Seeks Monetary Help After Stabbing
Ahmed Sharif, flanked by Mayor Bloomberg and Bhairavi Desai Ahmed Sharif, the cab driver who was brutally stabbed by a drunken passenger last week, will miss at least four months of work because of his injuries. He turned to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance this weekend for help in raising money for...
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Posted by in New York on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Park 51 Imam Blames Controversy On Politics
Park 51 Imam Blames Controversy On Politics
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf (AP) Echoing what Mayor Bloomberg said last week , the imam for the proposed mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center told a Middle Eastern publication that the election year blamed a “tiny, vociferous minority” for making the project the talking point of the...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 29th, 2010 | No Comments
PARK51 Developer in Tax scandal: Turns out that Sharif El-Gamal, the…
PARK51 Developer in Tax scandal: Turns out that Sharif El-Gamal, the…
Turns out that Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of PARK51 hasn’t been paying his bills for the property and owes $224,000 in back taxes . This ammo for opponents of the controversial development comes days after Donald Trump came out against it and Mayor Bloomberg once again gave his support. El-Gamal’s...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Far West Side Story: For the Far West Side, A Boom (And Some Failures)
Far West Side Story: For the Far West Side, A Boom (And Some Failures)
The Times did a lengthy piece on the far west side extending from 33rd street to 43rd between 10th avenue all the way west. It’s hard to call this part of town a “neighborhood”, but with the arrival of mammoth developments like the Silver Towers and the Atelier on 42nd street, there...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg Plays Golf, Talks Economy With Obama
Bloomberg Plays Golf, Talks Economy With Obama
      Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg headed from the Big Apple to Martha’s Vineyard to play a round of golf with President Obama. According to a White House press pool report , “We are told Bloomberg and Obama talked in the clubhouse for about 15 mins about the economy. They then...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Cab Driver Slasher Moved To Psych Ward
Cab Driver Slasher Moved To Psych Ward
Stabbing suspect Michael Enright at his arraignment (Steven Hirsch/AP) The 21-year-old SVA student who stabbed cab driver Ahmed Sharif after finding out he was Muslim has been moved to Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward from Rikers Island after being evaluated by medical staff. Michael Enright...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Jacobi Medical Center Accused Of Stealing Organs
Jacobi Medical Center Accused Of Stealing Organs
A Bronx woman is suing Jacobi Medical Center and the New York Organ Donor Network for $5 million, claiming they never asked her consent before harvesting her mother’s organs after she died of a heart attack last year. Jo Drever says she found that doctors took her mother’s organs after receiving...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
9/11 Victim’s Sister: Mayor Bloomberg Is A "Disgrace"
9/11 Victim’s Sister: Mayor Bloomberg Is A "Disgrace"
Photograph of an anti-mosque protester from last Sunday’s rally by sabotai on Flickr Mayor Bloomberg has repeatedly defended the proposed plans for a community center with a mosque to be built at 45-47 Park Place (the current home of a former Burlington Coat Factory store), reiterating America’s...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
DOH: 80% Of City’s Restaurants Aren’t Gross
DOH: 80% Of City’s Restaurants Aren’t Gross
Via the Department of Health According to new data from the Department of Health, about 80% of the 250 restaurants that underwent the city’s new sanitary inspections (which require grades to be posted for all customers to see ) have passed, with 49% getting A grades and 31% getting B grades. Dr....
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Paterson Predicts "Uprising" Over Cigarette Tax Collection
Paterson Predicts "Uprising" Over Cigarette Tax Collection
With Bloomberg already besieged by protests and angry letters calling for an apology over his offensive ” cowboys and Indians ” statement, Governor Paterson says he is worried about possible “violence and death” over the state’s plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold...
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