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C40: Mayors Making Good Food Cities
BROOKLYN, New York – Little about the culinary center serving New York’s Health + Hospitals agency evokes a home kitchen. Hair-netted cooks mix the ingredients for salsa verde in white bins the size of babies’ bathtubs. A row of combi ovens, gleaming and tall, roast hundreds of sweet plantains at a time. Nearby, a 200-gallon water bath chills reduced-oxygen packets of just-steamed yellow-and-white “sunshine” rice, preserving their freshness.
Red Alert: Severe thunderstorms for Memorial Day travel around NYC
NEW YORK -- Thunderstorms and flash flood risks were in the forecast Monday around the Tri-State Area as people made their way home from Memorial Day weekend travel.The CBS New York First Alert Weather team extended its Red Alert due to severe weather risks. Flood advisories were issued for Bergen, Essex, Orange, Passaic and Rockland counties late Monday night. A severe thunderstorm watch for most of the area ended at 9 p.m.Strong storms in Pennsylvania prompted tornado warnings that could've reached New Jersey, but the storm lost some intensity once it reached our area. Stay up to date with the latest forecast and live...
Attacker slashes man with box cutter for asking him to move his bags at NYC pedestrian plaza: cops
An attacker armed with a box cutter slashed a man for asking him to move his bags inside a tree-lined pedestrian plaza in Tribeca late Sunday, cops said. The 27-year-old victim was viciously slashed across the left cheek inside Bogardus Plaza near Hudson and Reade streets around 11:10 p.m., police said. NYC mom demands justice after girl, 11, slashed by maniac career criminal and left ‘showered in blood’ The assailant flew into a rage when the victim asked to move his bags, police said. It’s not clear exactly where the bags had been placed at the time. 5 students, 1 security guard slashed in NYC...
Nassau County family awarded Purple Heart for their late Navy veteran relative
Douglas Olitsky was doing some research for a family reunion when he came across a piece of paper with a story about his grandfather - a Navy veteran who was in Iwo Jima during World War II.
Venezuelan gang members arrested thousands of miles from border
(The Center Square) – Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members are being arrested thousands of miles from the border after having illegally entered the U.S. in Texas. The Venezuelan prison gang is well-known for orchestrating murders, bribery schemes and money laundering, drug and arms trafficking, and kidnappings for ransom money. In March, U.S. Sens. […]
Family lawyer: 6-day search at Heuermann home appeared to be focused in the basement
Heuermann has been charged with murder in the killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found buried along the remote beach parkway.
This summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it
Le Dive, a restaurant and wine bar at 37 Canal St., currently enjoys all three forms of outdoor dining: Open Streets seating (foreground), sidewalk seating (background), and a roadway dining shed (back left). New outdoor dining rules will change the economics of running an NYC restaurant, again [ more › ]
New Jersey beach opens on a Sunday for first time in 155 years despite Christian court battle
For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services.The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that established a Christian seaside retreat at the Jersey Shore in 1869, said it had closed its beaches on Sunday mornings during religious services in Ocean Grove for more than a century and a half before the state Department of Environmental Protection accused the group of violating state beach access...
NY weather: Marble-sized hail expected with thunderstorms in Suffolk and Nassau counties Monday
A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 8:23 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 9 p.m. for Suffolk and Nassau counties. The storms are expected to bring marble-sized hail (0.5 inches) and wind gusts of up to 30 mph. "At 8:23 p.m., Doppler radar tracked...
Lunatic ex-con who torched NYC straphanger grimaces as judge sets bail at $250K
The crazed firebug who allegedly torched a straphanger on a subway train over the weekend gave a vacant grimace in Manhattan court Monday as a judge set his bail at $250,000 — and prosecutors revealed he’s an ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet. Nile Taylor, 49 — who’s accused of tossing a flaming can of alcohol at Petrit Alijaj, 23, Saturday — has previously done prison time for gun and forgery busts, prosecutors said in Manhattan Criminal Court. Evidence in the case of his latest fiery attack is overwhelming, assistant District Attorney Aryan Ahmadian said. “This is a strong case,” Ahmadian told Judge...
Mets postpone Memorial Day game against Dodgers due to NY storm
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The Mets won’t take on the Dodgers Monday afternoon as scheduled thanks to a storm brewing in the tri-state area. The game, originally scheduled for 4:10 p.m. at Citi Field, will be postponed to Tuesday and played as a doubleheader, the Mets announced Monday. Tuesday’s games will kick off at […]
Storm System Now Sweeping Through With Drenching Downpours, Gusty Winds: Here's Latest
A frontal system now sweeping through the region on Memorial Day from west to east will bring rounds of heavy downpours and thunderstorms in the afternoon and into the evening on Monday, May 27. "This will bring the potential for isolated severe thunderstorms with damaging winds …
Couple dead in Brooklyn murder-suicide witnessed by killer’s own mother
A man shot his 29-year-old girlfriend to death before turning the gun on himself in a horrifying murder-suicide that the gunman’s own mother witnessed in the Brooklyn apartment the family shared, the distraught woman told the Daily News. The double shooting took place in a fourth-floor apartment on Avenue I near Ocean Ave. in Midwood just after 10 a.m. Monday, according to police. Teddy ...
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