A townhouse was completely destroyed by a gas main explosion today in the Rockland County town of West Haverstraw. Officials say a road construction crew had ruptured the gas main near the property around noon. Workers immediately notified authorities, and volunteer firefighters raced to the area to begin evacuating residents. As two volunteer firefighters were knocking on the door to evacuate a house on Zarriello Lane, it exploded. LoHud.com reports that the volunteers were seriously injured. [ more › ]
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Huge Gas Explosion Levels Rockland County Townhouse, Forces Evacuations
A married Inwood couple were found dead of an apparent murder-suicide in their apartment yesterday. The bodies of Jesus Soto, 56, and Yanet Soto, 54, were found in their bedroom by the wife’s live-in daughter and her 12-year-old granddaughter about 11:20 a.m. in their apartment at 24 Arden Street. Police believe that Jesus murdered wife Yanet, then purposefully took an overdose of pills. According to the Post , Yanet was found with deep cuts on her face, which was nearly sliced from ear to ear. [ more › ]
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Inwood Couple Found Dead Of Grisly Apparent Murder-Suicide
A seven-year-old boy was killed, and seven others were injured in a three-alarm fire in a Brooklyn apartment building early this morning. The fire broke out at 1:40 a.m. at a 3-story apartment at 1066 Decatur Street and a neighboring building in Bushwick. According to police, Joel Smith, 7, was found unconscious inside and died at the scene: “There was a lot of smoke coming out of the house and then I saw a shirtless man come out of the house with his son in his arms, his son was dead,” witness Johnny Pache told the Post . “He was crying a whole bunch. He put his son in a car near-by while the ambulances showed up.” [ more › ]
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7-Year-Old Killed, Seven Others Injured In Brooklyn Fire
Have you heard? There is a momentous contest between two sporting teams of toned millionaires tomorrow, one of which hails from the Excelsior State! And 57-year-old Peter Serafin won’t miss a minute, thanks to his $240,000, 20-hour trip across the country to Lambeau Field. Serafin, who shockingly works in finance, has filled a 70-foot RV with “two beautiful waitresses, a driver and even the executive chef at Old Homestead Steakhouse” to ferry himself and five friends to Wisconsin for the game. “It’s exciting,” he tells the Post, “It’s like a dream come true.” Yes, all our dreams involve 20 hours of being trapped in a metal box on the highway with fried chicken and “10 live lobsters.” [ more › ]
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Wall Street "Fat Cat" Paid $240,000 To Attend Giants Game In Style
Dashane Santana, the 12-year-old girl who was struck and killed by a minivan crossing Delancey Street yesterday had dreams of attending Juliard and becoming an actress. “She was a loving little girl—that was my girl,” Santana’s mother, Shamika Benjamin told the Post. Benjamin seemed to confirm the accounts of two witnesses who said that Santana was held up in the middle of the street as the traffic light turned green. “She was crossing the street when she dropped her bookbag.” Police have not charged the 58-year-old driver of the van, and are deeming the tragedy an accident. [ more › ]
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12-Yr-Old Killed On Delancey Street Mourned As Local Pols Demand Action
Last night, off the Italian coast near Tuscany, a luxury cruise ship ran aground by the island of Giglio, setting off a “panicked” evacuation from the ship. So far, Italian authorities say 4,165 of the 4,234 passengers and crew have been accounted for, with at least three bodies found. Laurie Willits, a passenger who had been watching a magic show on the boat, told CNN , “All of a sudden the lights flashed and the boat tipped like it was turning, but it didn’t return to level. And then we heard a scraping noise to the left of the ship and my husband said ‘we’re sliding off our seats… something’s wrong.’” [ more › ]
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Luxury Cruise Runs Aground Off Italy, At Least 3 Dead
Last month, Californian lawyer and influential Tea Party leader Mark Meckler was arrested for trying to board a plane at LaGuardia Airport with a handgun and ammunition. This week, Meckler pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct (reduced from felony criminal possession of a concealed weapon), but he wasn’t too happy about it. He made his displeasure known in a long entry on his website , in which he railed against “NYC’s unconstitutional or tyrannical behavior:” “Until you have felt the handcuffs on your wrists, and until you have heard that cell door close behind you, it is impossible to understand what it means to actually lose your liberty.” [ more › ]
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Tea Party Leader Vows To Fight NYC’s "Tyrannical" Anti-Gun Agenda
Last November, vandals torched three cars , tried to burn a fourth, and scrawled anti-semitic graffiti on a nearby van and benches in the heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Midwood. Police still have made no arrests in the arson case, but they say it may have not been the hate crime it was once assumed to be : officials have told community members that they believe the attack was an insurance scam. “From day one, cops didn’t believe that it was an anti-Semitic incident because you never see Swastikas and KKK signs together,” one source told the Post. [ more › ]
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Anti-Semitic Midwood Vandalism Possibly An Insurance Scam, Not Hate Crime
A Brooklyn man is turning a tiny portion of the $52 million in unused MetroCards into cash. In a business model akin to the OTB truffle-sniffers of yore, 41-year-old John Jones finds discarded MetroCards on the ground in various subway stations, combines the fares onto new cards, and resells them at a discount, and estimates that he’s made around $20,000 over the years. “I’m surprised that people just toss money away,” Jones tells the Post. This past holiday season, he found $1,500 worth of unused fares, and was able to sell half of it. No machine-tampering necessary! [ more › ]
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MetroCard Magnate Has Resold Unused Fares For $20K
According to a Manhattan restauranteur, a camera-shy health inspector fired off a litany of violations as soon as he began documenting the inspection. Bill Koulmentas, the owner of George’s diner in Tribeca, tells the Post that because he pulled out his iPhone to document a visit from a DOH inspector yesterday, the inspector became angry and wrote him up for 65 points worth of violations, and shuttered the restaurant for the first time since September 11, 2001. “They can do anything they want, Koulmentas says. “Something’s out of control here. It’s lies, lies, lies.” [ more › ]
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Diner Owner Claims DOH Shut Him Down For Citizen Journalism