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Rockaway shark bite victim on long road to recovery — as NYC beach season opens
A shark-attack survivor recently celebrated her 66th birthday and continues to heal after a maneater took a chunk out of her thigh last summer at Rockaway Beach — the first attack there in 70 years. Tatyana Koltunuk, of Astoria, still has a long road ahead as beach season opened Saturday. Her daughter, Dasha (Darya) Koltunyuk, celebrated her mother’s April 4 birthday and indomitable human spirit in an “update” post to a GoFundMe page. Sharks spotted off Cape Cod ahead of Memorial Day weekend Daring grandma makes 17-hour swim in shark-infested waters off San Francisco “We are so happy to share in this day with you...
Kids adventure center, complete with 18-foot slide and trampoline, coming to Soho Lofts in Jersey City
Mary Christian wanted a nice place for kids like her 8-year-old son to celebrate their birthday without going 30 minutes outside of Jersey City. When she saw there was none to her liking in the city, she decided to building one herself. If you purchase a product or register for...
The Notorious B.I.G’s Daughter, T’yanna Wallace, Opens ‘The Biggie Experience Museum’
T’yanna Wallace, daughter of the legendary Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G., is honoring her father’s legacy with the opening of The Biggie Experience Museum. This new venture comes seven years after she launched Notoriouss Clothing, her successful clothing store in Brooklyn. The Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, is...
3 falcon chicks hatch atop the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City
NEW YORK (AP) — Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest built at the top of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, officials said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and Tunnels said Friday that the chicks hatched in a nesting box set up by the agency atop a 693-foot-tall (211-meter-tall) tower on the bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. Officials check on the nest each year around the end of May to put identifying bands on the falcon chicks to help keep track of how many peregrines are in the city and to identify them if they get sick. The three chicks were banded Friday and are about three weeks old, according to a statement.
NY Lottery: Winner buys amazing ‘Set for Life’ scratch-off grand prize at smoke shop, takes $2M lump sum
The recent winner of a “Set for Life” scratch-off top prize decided to take their money up front rather than wait a lifetime to collect it, according to the New York Lottery. A Bronx LLC collected the prize for the lucky winner, who claimed the incredible $5,000 a...
Bronx resident's bedroom found rotting in mold for months
NEW YORK -- A resident in the Bronx is dealing with unbearable amounts of mold in her apartment after she says a pipe burst back in March. It has been several months and still no repairs, so she turned to CBS New York for help."It was water damage. The pipes burst and it came from the whole bedroom over," Vernisa Depass said.A step inside her bedroom and the eyesore was obvious. It had only take a few months for a door to enter such a shocking state of decay, riddled with mold from top to bottom."I can even smell it,...
As John Oates says goodbye to Hall & Oates, he reveals the secret behind their first performance
Before they ever went one on one as Hall & Oates, John Oates played his first show with his longtime partner Daryl Hall in New York City. After meeting as students at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1967, the blue-eyed soul brothers behind such classics as “Rich Girl,” “Kiss on My List,” “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” made their debut in the middle of Greenwich Village’s fertile folk scene in the late ’60s. “[Daryl] had a doo wop group called the Temptones,” Oates, 76, told The Post outside the site of the former Gaslight Cafe where the Rock & Roll Hall of...
Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel ‘The Alienist,’ dies at 68
NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday, according to an...
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