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Sickly old dog left tied to a tree in NYC with gaping wound — as mystery remains over who put it there
A sweet elderly pit bull was left tied to a tree in Queens with a bloody, gaping chest wound — and it’s still a mystery who ditched the sickly pooch. The 8-year-old dog was left for dead with advanced-stage mammary cancer near Atlas Mall in Glendale on Tuesday, according to City Council members Bob Holden and Joann Ariola. Neighbors reported the abandoned dog to the lawmakers after confusion about whether the call was a police matter — and bystanders rushed her to a shelter with help from the rescue group Lend-a-Paw, according to a council source. “[A rescuer] had suspected that she had just given...
Hundreds of oysters found on NYC coast — indicating endangered species is on the mend
Looks like Queens is turning into the oysters’ Rockefeller Center. A stretch of the borough’s shoreline has been identified as the hip new hotspot for the mollusks — marking a powerful indication that the once bountiful bivalves have a chance at thriving in the Big Apple once again. A dozen volunteers counted some 700 oysters living in the mud flats of Powell’s Cove Park Wednesday as part of a city-wide initiative to restore the struggling populations so that the filter feeders can provide the area with natural benefits, such as cleaning the water and bolstering the shoreline. The Wild Oyster Survey —...
N.Y. Lottery: Winner claims $1M in scratch-off game as one-time lump sum; 8 top prizes remain
A New York Lottery player has claimed a $1 million prize on a scratch-off game — and eight top prizes still remain. Stepian Krzysztof of Copiague, New York, has claimed the prize on the New York Lottery’s Millionaire Maker scratch-off game. The ticket was purchased at Smokewerx, located at 500 Oak St. in Copiague.
Long-lost mural from Queens Howard Johnson’s recovered after 50 years — in Massachusetts basement
A long-lost mural that once adorned an iconic Queens restaurant has finally been brought home — fifty years after it seemingly vanished into thin air. The sprawling, 39-foot Andre Durenceau masterpiece, long thought to have been destroyed when the Howard Johnson’s in Queens was torn down, had been quietly living for decades in a Massachusetts basement. “Many preservationists thought the mural was demolished, but I was searching for it for many, many years,” Michael Perlman, founder of the Rego-Forest Preservation Council, told The Post. Perlman, 42, was operating on little more than hope that the mural had somehow survived when he was called...
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