The city is changing its approach to how it deals with poor housing conditions. The Department of Housing, Preservation, and Development is now stepping in before tenants complain to 311.
Giving babies and toddlers antibiotics when doctors are certain they have ear infections can help speed up their recovery, supporting current treatment guidelines for children between the ages of 6
For some commuters trying to look up the latest travel information today, NJTransit.com became NJTransit.gone. Customers looking for bus and train schedule information for the state’s largest transportation agency on the morning after a snowstorm were instead getting a message telling them they could buy the NJTransit.com website domain name. Initially saying the problem was […]
A Manhattan bankruptcy judge has approved a $7.2 billion deal to settle a lawsuit brought against the estate of the biggest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff’s fraud. The judge signed off
A lawmaker on Long Island says drivers who leave huge chunks of snow and ice on their vehicles after a snowstorm should be subject to a ticket by the police.
Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex) has withdrawn her proposal for a bill that would have required bicycles to be registered. “My intention was never to impose a burden or additional costs,” Tucker said in a statement. “My goal was to at least begin a discussion of how best to protect elderly pedestrians. No idea is perfect, […]
The 41-story former Deutsche Bank building opposite the World Trade Center site is now the one-story former Deutsche Bank building. Within a month, it should be down to zero; the
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “is perhaps the worst in Israel’s history, or at least the unluckiest,” said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday, adding that Hamas “is not
A 24-year-old man has been released on bail after he was arrested for allegedly punching an Orthodox man in the head. Officers were called to Stamford Hill in north London shortly before 11pm on Saturday following reports of an attack. It is alleged that the attacker punched the back of the victim’s head, knocking his […]
The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said. “We will peak in foreclosures and probably bottom out in pricing, and that’s what we need to do […]
A runway at Florida’s Tampa International Airport is scheduled to reopen Thursday with new numbers and signage to account for the gradual shift of the Earth’s magnetic North Pole. Runway 18R/36L, which runs north-south, has been closed since January 3 for numeric redesignation of the compass headings at each end of the runway and to change taxiway signage […]
President Obama also delivered miraculous news at tonights memorial: that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, who received a bullet wound to the head that traveled the length of her brain
President Obama urged a divided nation Wednesday to come together in memory of six fellow Americans who lost their lives in Saturday’s mass shooting. “What we cannot do is use
As the economy revs back to life, with signs of hiring on the horizon, the housing market is being left behind. In the past few years, we’ve all been careful to choose our words carefully, not calling it a recession until it fit the technical definition and avoiding any inappropriate use of the “D” word […]
Gov. Cuomo expressed “shock” not once but three times yesterday after The Post’s disclosed that 28 State Police brass secretly received huge wage increases last month amid the state’s worsening fiscal crisis. “I was surprised and I was shocked, as I think most New Yorkers were,” said Cuomo, who cut his own pay and that […]
Scathing attack on Iranian regime: Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi characterized the authorities in Tehran as “totalitarian,” as part of his harshest attack on the government in recent memory. In
Sarah Palin’s remarks Wednesday in which she accused critics who would tie her political tone to the Arizona shootings of committing a “blood libel” against her have prompted an instant
This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a high school friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre. Osler says his friend wasn’t shooting at people, “he was shooting at the world.” Regarding the high-pitched talk radio and cable news political rhetoric, Osler says his friend […]
New York City public school students trudged through about nine inches of snow on their way to classes this morning as their parents and other New Yorkers shoveled and cleaned
Sarah Palin released a video statement Wednesday calling the rush to pin blame on conservatives for the Tucson shooting a “blood libel.” “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said. “They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.” In the eight-minute video, Palin says, “…especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, […]
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