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NYPD gifts woman new wheelchair after her electric wheelchair was stolen in Crown Heights
The NYPD surprised a woman with a brand new electric wheelchair after hers was stolen while she was inside of a store on her way home from church in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.It happened on Sunday, September 1 at 1:30 p.m. on Troy Avenue in Crown Heights.Rosalyn Johnson said she had just gone to church as she usually does on Sunday.She parked the wheelchair on Troy Avenue in Crown Heights to briefly step into a store.Minutes later, it was gone.That's when surveillance video shows a woman sitting in the electric wheelchair and driving it down the sidewalk westbound on Sterling Place."For...
Brooklyn neighborhood named among coolest in the world
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A New York City neighborhood has been crowned as one of the world’s coolest. Flatbush took the No. 17 spot on Time Out Magazine’s list this year. “Flatbush has its own gravitational pull. The neighborhood’s bevy of Black-owned businesses, from popular watering holes to restaurants that slap, its perfect proximity to […]
Cow Harbor Day returns to Northport’s streets
Sunny skies greeted the residents of Northport and elsewhere as they celebrated the annual Cow Harbor Day Sunday, Sept. 22. The event, which has been running for more than 50 years, celebrates the history of Northport whose original name, Cow Harbor, stems from the cows who “used to graze on the fields along the harbor which are now two lovely parks,” according to the village website.
Area Moving Companies Fined Following Operation by New Jersey Attorney General
TRENTON, NJ - Moving companies from Bayonne, Jersey City and Hoboken were among the 23 unlicensed movers issued Notices of Violation (“NOVs”) and assessed civil penalties totaling $125,000, as a result of Operation Safe Move, a State-led undercover operation targeting movers doing business without being licensed by the Division, as required by law, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“Division”) announced. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERIn a statement, Platkin announced that the covert civil enforcement investigation was conducted over a three-day period in June. As part of the operation, Investigators with...
MTA worker tasted leak to determine Queens-Midtown Tunnel flooding source: ‘Yum, yum’
The selection has a nice oceany bouquet with hints of fish and garbage water. One brave maintenance worker solved the mystery of the heavy flood of water that poured through the ceiling of the Queens-Midtown earlier this month by tasting the stream to see where it was coming from, officials said. The unnamed crew member became a seawater sommelier when the person detected notes of salty brine that indicated the water was flowing from the East River and not from a burst water main. Broken subway, broken empire: UN confab adds another burden to struggling NYers “How we determined it was salt — Yes,...
Big barges help install cable for New York power project in Lake Champlain
From afar, three barges in the middle of Lake Champlain may look like a floating amusement park, but in fact, they are part of a project to install a cable that is expected to provide New York City with 20% of its power. The project, called the Champlain Hudson Power...
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