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The following is a Daily News article: An angryly divided community board has voted to support a controversial tax break for a Midwood supermarket. Supporters and opponents of the $2
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The center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel is closed, Thursday morning, because of a crash involving a motorcycle and three buses. Port Authority spokeswoman Jennifer Friedberg says the crash occurred
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has pledged to change New Jersey’s reputation for high taxes. Judging by a report released Wednesday by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, the state has
President Barack Obama condemned the “outrageous” crackdown by Libyan security forces on protesters and said Washington would work with international partners to hold Muammar Gaddafi’s government accountable. “The suffering and
A judge ruled Thursday that Britain can extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden for questioning over allegations unrelated to Wikileaks. Assange has seven days to appeal the ruling. Assange
Super-fast “fourth generation” networks carry data at speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. But the new network from LightSquared may take the high-flying GPS network to zero Gbps
The following is a Ynet article: As real estate prices in central Israel rise, the ultra-Orthodox public is eyeing the periphery’s outer circles – areas which have miserably failed in
An alleged killer accused of murdering four people in Brooklyn before slashing a commuter on an uptown No. 3 train was arraigned Wednesday via video feed from the psychiatric ward
NYC Councilman Steve Levin in cooperation with the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg (UJO) hosted a tax assessment seminar in Williamsburg for people to learn about the process of appealing
On the coming Monday, February the 28th, the final hearing in the appeals case for Yaakov Yosef ben Raizel will take place at the Tokyo High Court, at which the
1:40PM EST: U.S. crude futures briefly crossed the critical $100 mark Wednesday, the first such move since October 2008, as escalating violence in Libya shook crude markets and extended supply
A Libyan plane reportedly carrying the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader, has been turned back from Malta after it was denied permission to land. “The [crew] initially said they
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Over 200 dignitaries, community leaders, and members of the Jewish community gathered at the Condor Hotel in Williamsburg to honor the Executive Team of NYU Medical Center for their consistent
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