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  • Video: King’s Plaza Mall in Brooklyn Catches on Fire
    Video: King’s Plaza Mall in Brooklyn Catches on Fire
    September 17, 2018 | By Jack Phillips
    A six-alarm fire tore through a parking garage in Brooklyn’s Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Sept. 17, according to reports. A number of vehicles were burned, and more than a dozen people were injured, NBC New York reported. AmNY later reported that 17 people, including 15 firefighters, were injured. A call about the fire came […]
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  • For Father 9/11 Is Day He Won’t Forget
    For Father 9/11 Is Day He Won’t Forget
    September 11, 2018 | By Shiwen Rong
    For Bill McGinly from Virginia, 7 and 11 are poignant numbers. “Seventeen years ago [last] Friday, I was here in town on business, and Mark and I had lunch together,” he said referring to his son who was living in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Then I gave him a hug, I got in the cab, […]
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  • Silent Dance Honors Lives Lost on 9/11
    Silent Dance Honors Lives Lost on 9/11
    September 11, 2018 | By Henry Jom and Miguel Moreno
    NEW YORK—The Table of Silence Project, is a multi-cultural prayer and dance ceremony for peace commemorating those affected by the devastating terror attack of Sept. 11, 2001. This was the eighth year the performance held at Lincoln Center on the anniversary of 9/11. Among the participants of the tribute, Richard Daniels, a dancer, explained the […]
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  • 9/11 Hit Just Months After 2 Young Women Started Work at WTC
    9/11 Hit Just Months After 2 Young Women Started Work at WTC
    September 11, 2018 | By Carrie Gilkison, Cathy He and Kimberly Hayek
    NEW YORK—Vatchpol Srinuan has been attending the Ground Zero memorial service almost every year for the past 17 years to honor his younger sister, Saranya or “Suzie.” Born and raised in New York, his sister was 23-years-old when she perished in the North Tower. She was working on the 103rd floor at Cantor Fitzgerald, and […]
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  • Weight of 9/11 Felt Near and Far
    Weight of 9/11 Felt Near and Far
    September 11, 2018 | By Brendon Fallon, Margaret Wollensak and Vanessa Rios
    NEW YORK—Rachel Donelson from Charleston, South Carolina visited Ground Zero for the first time on the seventeenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The 33-year-old mother of two says she remembers the attacks like it was yesterday. “When it happened, I was in school,” she said. “They just dismissed us, no one knew why.” Returning […]
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  • NYPD First Responder Worries People Are Forgetting
    NYPD First Responder Worries People Are Forgetting
    September 11, 2018 | By David Vives
    NEW YORK—Retired New York police officer Kieran Breen is still full of emotion when he talks about the tragedy of 9/11—the deadliest attack on American soil since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in World War II. Nearly 3,000 people died when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. […]
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  • 9/11 First Responder Recalls Moment When North Tower Fell
    9/11 First Responder Recalls Moment When North Tower Fell
    September 11, 2018 | By Janita Kan and Marina Fatina
    NEW YORK—Firefighter Kevin Kelly was rushing to the North Tower just before it started to tumble. His chief had not realized the South Tower had already collapsed. “We dropped everything we had [and] took off,” Kelly said. “First I got behind a car and somebody running behind me said, ‘Brother, you better run further than […]
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  • World Trade Center Subway Stop Destroyed in 9/11 Reopened After 17 Years
    World Trade Center Subway Stop Destroyed in 9/11 Reopened After 17 Years
    September 10, 2018 | By Zachary Stieber
    The subway station that was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has reopened for the first time since the attacks. The World Trade Center (WTC) Cortlandt reopened on Saturday, Sept. 8. The old station was buried under rubble from the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. “The opening of WTC Cortlandt […]
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  • Unseeded Millman Sends Federer Crashing out of US Open
    Unseeded Millman Sends Federer Crashing out of US Open
    September 4, 2018 | By Reuters
    Roger Federer failed to cope with stifling conditions at the U.S. Open on Sep. 3 and suffered a shock 3-6 7-5 7-6(7) 7-6(3) defeat to unseeded Australian John Millman in the last 16. Second seed Federer, who had not dropped a set in his first three matches, was uncharacteristically sloppy, committing 77 unforced errors and […]
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  • Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Welcome Baby Boy
    Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Welcome Baby Boy
    August 31, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    NEW YORK—Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy have welcomed a baby boy. A publicist for the actors told The Associated Press on Friday that the couple gave birth Monday in New York. This is the second child for the 39-year-old actress and 42-year-old actor. They are already parents to their 5-year-old son Cyrus Michael Christopher. The […]
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  • New York Becomes the First US City to Approve a Cap on Uber and Lyft
    New York Becomes the First US City to Approve a Cap on Uber and Lyft
    August 18, 2018 | By Shiwen Rong
    Kenny Chow was one of six taxi drivers that chose to commit suicide in the last six months. He died at the age of 56. He entered the taxi industry with his brother Richard Chow 10 years ago, borrowing money from the bank to be able to pay for a taxi medallion. “Due to the […]
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  • School Bus Flips on NJ Turnpike, 42 On Board
    School Bus Flips on NJ Turnpike, 42 On Board
    August 12, 2018 | By Janita Kan
    A school bus carrying 42 children and adults flipped on the New Jersey Turnpike on Aug. 11 blocking multiple lanes of traffic, authorities said. Officials said the bus crashed at milepost 79.9 in East Brunswick, Middlesex County, causing lane closures in both the local and express lanes around 5:30 p.m. According to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, the bus was […]
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  • Baby Boy Dead After Body Pulled From Water Near Brooklyn Bridge
    Baby Boy Dead After Body Pulled From Water Near Brooklyn Bridge
    August 6, 2018 | By Mimi Nguyen Ly
    A baby boy died after he was rescued from the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge and rushed to hospital on Aug. 5. Police estimate him to be around 8 months old. Diana Campbell, a tourist from Oklahoma, spotted the baby floating near the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge just after 4 p.m. The […]
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  • Four People, Including Boy, Killed in New York City Shooting
    Four People, Including Boy, Killed in New York City Shooting
    July 31, 2018 | By Reuters
    Four people, including a young boy, were shot and killed on July 30 in a New York City apartment, police said. Two females, one male and a boy, about five years old, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside the apartment in the borough of Queens, after police and emergency crews were called to the […]
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  • Papa John’s Founder Sues His Own Pizza Chain
    Papa John’s Founder Sues His Own Pizza Chain
    July 27, 2018 | By Reuters
    NEW YORK—John Schnatter, the founder and ousted former chairman of Papa John’s International, on Thursday, July 26, sued the pizzeria chain, complaining that the company had not provided adequate response to an earlier request for internal documents. The complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court comes after a request by Schnatter and his attorneys access to […]
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  • Trial Date for High-Profile NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Case Pushed Back
    Trial Date for High-Profile NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Case Pushed Back
    July 26, 2018 | By Bowen Xiao
    NEW YORK—“Justice is finally being served, and it can’t be bought,” Toni Natalie, an ex-girlfriend of Keith Raniere, remarked outside the U.S. district court where the leader of the NXIVM secret society faced a hearing on July 25. Raniere sat just feet away from Seagram billionaire heiress Clare Bronfman and former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, […]
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  • Asbestos From Manhattan Steam Pipe Blast Forces Evacuations
    Asbestos From Manhattan Steam Pipe Blast Forces Evacuations
    July 20, 2018 | By Reuters
    NEW YORK—Residents and workers from 49 buildings near the site of an early-morning steam pipe explosion in Manhattan were evacuated, many for at least two days, on Thursday after lung-damaging asbestos was found on debris from the blast, officials said. The blast at the start of the morning rush hour near the sharply angled Flatiron […]
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  • New York Steam Pipe Explosion Creates Urban Geyser; No Injuries
    New York Steam Pipe Explosion Creates Urban Geyser; No Injuries
    July 19, 2018 | By Reuters
    NEW YORK—A subterranean steam pipe explosion on Thursday in New York created an urban geyser that snarled traffic during the city’s morning rush hour, but caused no injuries, authorities said. A thick plume of white steam shot up through a crater that opened up around 6:40 a.m. EDT near Manhattan’s sharply angled Flatiron Building, prompting […]
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  • New York City Bill Will Force Airbnb to Disclose Names and Addresses of Hosts
    New York City Bill Will Force Airbnb to Disclose Names and Addresses of Hosts
    July 19, 2018 | By Zachary Stieber
    The New York City Council unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that will require Airbnb to disclose the names and addresses of all hosts to a city agency. The bill is the latest attempt by the city to crack down on the company and root out so-called “bad actors,” or hosts that own multiple units, […]
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  • New York Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate 19th Anniversary of Persecution in China
    New York Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate 19th Anniversary of Persecution in China
    July 17, 2018 | By Annie Wu
    NEW YORK—As sunset slowly approached on a hot summer’s evening on July 16, candles were lit, one by one, in commemoration of those who have lost their lives to a brutal persecution. Just across the street from the Chinese Consulate, on the edge of the Hudson River, music tinged with sorrow played as practitioners of […]
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