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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.

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Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - Norwood — This is the second chapter in a five-chapter story. Click here to see the rest of the series. But the fire that took 8-year-old Jashawn Parker in the late evening of Aug. 6, 2002, on a typically dense northwest-Bronx block somehow never got muc

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Occupy Times Square: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm Midtown

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Whitney Snyder - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York City's Times Square Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their monthlong campaign against corporate greed.

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Reuters Draws Fire For Occupy Wall Street Story

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jack Mirkinson - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - Reuters is drawing heavy criticism -- including from some of its own journalists -- for an article which attempts to connect the Occupy Wall Street...

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Occupy Wall Street Protest Escalates On Eighth Day (VIDEO)

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jonah Green - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Tensions are rising at the Occupy Wall Street protest, currently in its eighth day, as organizers for the protest claim that 80 have been arrested.. Eyewitness accounts report that "dozens" have been arrested. Police would not confirm the exact number. Videos and eyewitness accounts show violent clashing between protesters and the police.

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Anthony Weiner Breaks His Silence On Twitter Photo Scandal

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By AP/The Huffington Post - Jun. 01 (News Report) - A day after telling reporters that he's "not going to talk about this anymore," Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) broke his silence Wednesday about the controversy...

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9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Michael McAuliff - Apr. 22 (News Report) - A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.

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Deer, Goose Form Unlikely Friendship (VIDEO)

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Kanya D'Almeida - Mar. 25 (News Report) - In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall Thursday, chanting "The people united will never be defeated!" As the contagious effects of democratic uprisings radiate from North Africa to North America, New York City's exploited workers and students are not about to let the opportunity for mass struggle pass them by.

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City Students Fall Short in Science

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Gotham Gazette - By Marc Bussanich - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - ...city officials hope the technology and bioscience industries will continue to expand here, bringing new jobs...but will graduates of the city's public schools have the skills to get those jobs?

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FBI Rounds Up 100 Mobsters in Biggest Mafia Bust in New York History

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NBC New York - By Jonathan Dienst - Jan. 20 (News Report) - The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. More than 100 suspected mobsters were arrested this morning in connection with numerous federal investigations into New York area mob groups as first reported on NBCNewYork.com.

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9/11 First Responders Storm Tom Coburn's Office To Protest Block On Their Health Care Bill (VIDEO)

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Nick Wing - Dec. 22 (News Report) - A group of 9/11 first responders attempted to storm Tom Coburn's office Tuesday to personally lobby the GOP senator to lift a block that he had vowed to place on legislation meant to help cover their mounting health care costs.John Feal, head of the responders, told ThinkProgress that they had been prohibited from meeting the Republican opponents of the bill.

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Mike Huckabee: 'Every Republican' Should Support 9/11 First Responders Bill

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Nick Wing - Dec. 17 (News) - "Every Republican should vote for this bill," Huckabee announced, after Stewart explained that the bill was a standalone measure not attached to any other spending.

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Officers ID'd who shot and killed Pace student Danroy Henry

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Lower Hudson Journal news - By Ben Rubin, Colin Gustafson, Shawn Cohen - Oct. 18 (News) - The Pleasantville police officer who was believed to have fired the shot that killed a Pace University football player was identified today as Aaron Hess, a former New York City cop on the local force since 2003.

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MTA Moves Toward a 'Smart' Way to Pay Fares

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gotham Gazette - By Cody Lyon - Sep. 22 (News) - Within the next few years, transit riders might be able to simply tap their cards and go, rather than having to swipe -- and sometimes swipe again and again. In addition, rather than purchasing a ticket from the transit authority, they could have their fares automatically debited from their bank accounts or charged to their credit cards.

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Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CBS 2 New York - Sep. 07 (News) - George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.

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NYPD Charges Man With Hate Crime After He Allegedly Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:43:05 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Eric Lach - Aug. 25 (News Report) - The New York Police Department has confirmed to TPM that a cab driver in Manhttan was allegedly stabbed by a passenger who asked if the cabbie was Muslim, and says the incident is being treated as a hate crime. The suspect has been charged with attempted murder and other crimes.

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Police: Cab Driver Stabbed By Passenger Who Asked "Are You Muslim?"

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ny1.com - Aug. 25 (News Report) - A city cab driver is in the hospital after being stabbed by a passenger who allegedly asked if he was Muslim, police tell NY1. Investigators with the New York City Police Department say it all began Monday night when a 21-year-old man hailed a cab at 24th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan. Police say the passenger asked the driver, "Are you Muslim?" When the driver said yes the passenger pulled a knife and slashed him in the throat, arm and lip. The 43-year-old driver was able to lock the passenger in the back of the cab and call 911. Both the driver and the passenger were taken to Bellevue Hospital. As of late Tuesday, no charges had been filed.

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Ground Zero Strippers Weigh In On 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.wsj.com - By Wsj - Aug. 20 (News Report) - After the World Trade Center towers fell, a stripper named Chris went to volunteer in the recovery effort for the Red Cross. Nearly 10 years later, she dances just down the street from Ground Zero at the Pussycat Lounge. Thousands of workers spend their days toiling in the neighborhood around the World Trade Center site, a space that had gained renewed national attention amid controversial plans to build an Islamic center there.

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How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Justin Elliott - Aug. 17 (News) - A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had a mosque in the same neighborhood for many years. There's another mosque two blocks away from the site. City officials support the project. Muslims have been praying at the Pentagon, the other building hit on Sept. 11, for many years.

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"Hallowed Ground"

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

History Eraser Button - By Daryl Lang - Aug. 16 (Research) - A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque”: Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the city fabric.

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Gay Bar Near Mosque Near Ground Zero

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Outside the Beltway - By James Joyner - Aug. 10 (News Analysis) - Greg Gutfeld claims to be working to build a gay bar next door to the controversial Cordoba House Muslim cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero.

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Mark Nadeau, Cobleskill Mayor, Quits After Obama Racial Slur

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By David Weiner - Jul. 21 (News Report) - COBLESKILL, N.Y. ? The mayor of an upstate New York village resigned Tuesday because he was secretly recorded using a racial slur that mocked President...

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