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Paralyzed people may soon be able to walk thanks to NYC innovation — and that’s only the beginning
Helping the paralyzed walk sounds like a miracle — but it may soon be a reality. Over the last few years, New York’s largest hospital system, Northwell Health, has been developing bioelectric technology that allows paralyzed patients to move. Bioelectric technology harnesses the body’s own electrical signals so it communicates properly with the nervous system. A paralyzed patient hooked up to a bioelectric device can feel and even move. The hospital has already seen incredible applications. “We had a patient named Kevin … totally paralyzed from the neck down after diving into a swimming pool,” Northwell CEO Michael Dowling explained. “Because of the technologies...
Parking Violation Leads To Man's Arrest For Firearm Violation: Guttenberg PD
A 27-year-old West New York man was arrested after police found a gun in his car while serving a parking violation in Guttenberg on Sunday, Oct. 27, authorities said.At 12:41 a.m., police were addressing a parking complaint at 69th Street and John F. Kennedy Blvd East, Guttenberg police said. While…
Why is my compost put in the same NYC Sanitation truck as my household trash?
Under the city’s new composting program, residents of all five boroughs must separate their organic refuse from their household trash. The organic material must be placed in its own bin for pickup. But some Staten Islanders have asked why their compostable material is being placed in the same Sanitation...
Manhattan subway good Samaritans subdue man with knife hassling woman
Two good Samaritans stepped in to confront a man hassling a woman on a Manhattan subway train — then held him for cops after he pulled out a knife and started swinging at them, police said Monday. The attacker was bothering a woman on an L train station at the First Ave. station in the East Village about 12:30 a.m. Sunday when the do-gooders stepped in. That’s when the assailant whipped out a ...
Six jurors picked for Daniel Penny trial — including two who’ve been harassed on subway
Six Manhattanites were picked Monday to serve on the jury at Daniel Penny’s lightning-rod manslaughter trial over the fatal subway chokehold of homeless man Jordan Neely — including two who said they’ve experienced harassment on the transit system. The panelists chosen so far include a Yorkville insurance attorney who recalled being randomly “rammed” by a woman with a cart during her morning commute eight years ago. “She just rammed the cart into me, called me a name and I just backed off,” the woman said during jury selection in Manhattan Supreme Court. “It kind of ended there.” Another juror, an Upper East...
World’s Most Famous Tree; Grown Just Outside of Albany New York
This Year's Rockefeller Center Tree Has Been Chosen. A massive, 11-ton, 74-feet Norway Spruce grown just outside of Upstate NY is headed to NYC's Rockefeller Center, where it will be the most viewed Christmas tree in the world in a few weeks. Each year, a tree from New York or...
NYPD cars to be equipped with drones for police to use
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The NYPD said the future of policing is now. PIX11 News has new details about the department’s Drone as First Responder program, which is in its third phase. Drones will soon be in police cars so officers can use them if needed. The NYPD already uses drones to respond to 911 […]
New York Set To Break Grim Record Dating Back To 1869
October has been a very weird month in New York. Now, we are just days away from breaking record. One that's not great. October is on track to be the driest month in history across the Hudson Valley. October Set To Become Driest Month Ever. October officially ends of Friday....
NYC schools chancellor: My mom pulled me out of the school system I now lead
Long before I was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to be chancellor of New York City Public Schools, I was the third child of a single mother from Puerto Rico. Growing up in the Bronx in the 1980s, my family experienced what so many families in our city have gone through: unstable housing, lack of opportunity in our borough, and most distressingly for my mother, schools that were chronically failing their students.At the time, my mother watched as her first two children attended public schools that seemed more like places to babysit young people than places that develop future leaders....
Authorities launch 'interagency operation' at federal jail in New York housing Sean 'Diddy' Combs
NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators from multiple federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. The investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies descended on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to The Associated Press. The law enforcement operation was “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at MDC Brooklyn,” the agency said. Prison officials declined to provide specific details about the operation Monday morning.
Recovery efforts continue 12 years after Superstorm Sandy hit Tri-State area
Tuesday marks exactly 12 years since Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New York on Oct. 29, 2012.Over the course of 48 hours, the intense wind and rain devastated many communities and left tens of thousands of homes damaged.It also caused billions of dollars of damage as coastal communities were ravaged and flooding, fires and tremendous loss followed.The storm also showed us just how vulnerable we are.There has been major rebuilding in the 12 years since Sandy, including a hurricane mitigation project on Staten Island. The multi-million dollar project consists of a series of breakwaters off the shores of Tottenville.The "Living...
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