Web Tourist Scam Uses Manhattan Building
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:59:01 -0700
They came from Switzerland, France, and India. Tourists who paid for long-awaited vacations to New York City. But when they arrived they learned the shocking truth - the building they paid to stay in is being used by internet scam artists to rip-off overseas tourists.
Indict attacker of Muslim cabby
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:19:32 -0700
Almost a week after a Muslim yellow taxi driver was brutally slashed; his alleged attacker was indicted on charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault as hate crimes.
Attorney General
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:17:51 -0700
Name: Eric Dinallo Age: 47 Party Affiliation: Democrat Occupation: Ethics Professor, Stern School of Business at New York University
New York's secret origins
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:05:34 -0700
Any time of day, New York looks like a comic. Every block of Manhattan tells part of the story, like illustrated panels on the page: Superman soars over Midtown's skyscrapers, Batman lurks on the rooftops of Gothic buildings, the Spirit sulks in the shadows of the Lower East Side and Spider-Man's girlfriends plunge to almost certain deaths from the borough-spanning bridges.
Manhattan building caught in Web tourist scam
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:30:50 -0700
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan building called Camelot is the target of a scam that offers tourists luxury accommodations — then leaves them in the lurch.
‘Goodfellas’ grad reflects on role in Scorsese classic
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:01:25 -0700
It’s difficult to maintain an upward trajectory in the acting business when your first job is a pivotal role in a Martin Scorsese film. The 1990 mob film “Goodfellas” catapulted Christopher Serrone to fame when he was just 12. Serrone, who recently moved to Vancouver, has struggled over the past 20 years to replicate that initial success. With a new movie out in November and other television and ...
Get to know Michael Farkas of The Wiyos
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:40:29 -0700
After two years in Great Barrington, Mass., harmonica ace Michael Farkas is in the process of relocating back to his Brooklyn home base. Farkas is a founding member of the vaudeville-influenced group, The Wiyos, who continue to be a presence on the regional music scene, with upcoming dates, for example, at Club Helsinki (Sept. 10) and The Linda (Oct. 16). Farkas says the band, which toured with ...
Hate crime at mosque angers residents of California town
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:09:55 -0700
Vandalism at the Islamic center in Madera, Calif., is met with solidarity among members of the community. This is a small mosque in a small town about as far as you can get — in more ways than one — from New York City.
Cure for the Summer Follies
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:12:47 -0700
I was in the checkout line holding two cartons of gourmet chocolate ice cream behind a woman with a fully loaded shopping cart. This was the eve of Labor Day weekend, just another broiling day in paradise.
Muslims tread carefully around proposed mosque near ground zero
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:36:59 -0700
American Muslims are treading carefully through the political minefield surrounding the proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York – issuing warnings but not wanting to overreact to a recent series of desecrations and vandalism at mosques around the country, encouraging adherents to participate in a “9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance,” and changing plans for celebrating the ...
Two Brooklyn ringleaders of massive ID theft operation were once based in Bayonne
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:24:32 -0700
Two New York men who were once based in Bayonne have been charged with running a massive identity theft ring using dozens of people in numerous states to buy high-end items and withdraw cash using stolen account information, officials said.
VIEWPOINT: A Quaker solution to mosque flap
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:08:52 -0700
The Manhattan mosque controversy suddenly has been blown onto the national stage by the mayor of New York, our president and our speaker of the House. They are so used to operating in the arena of hard-nosed, bare-knuckles politics that they cannot...
Danbury hoops coach takes Division I softball job
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:48:43 -0700
DANBURY -- Tom Pardalis is letting go of one dream to fulfill another. After 13 seasons in charge of the Danbury High School boys basketball team, Pardalis, 59, resigned last week to become the head softball coach at Manhattan College in New York, a Division I program.
Co-Owner of Missing Corot, Sales Agent Spent Time in Prison
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:27:44 -0700
Tom Doyle and James Carl Haggerty weren’t hobnobbing in Manhattan, Miami or London in early 2007 as the art market was peaking.
Democrats’ Ads in Race for New York Attorney General
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:13:23 -0700
The five Democrats running for attorney general in New York State are planning an 11th-hour blitz before the Sept. 14 primary.
Traveller's Guide: Alternative New York tours
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:39:16 -0700
Hip-hop is to New York what country music is to Nashville. As we walk (accompanied throughout by a hip-hop soundtrack), guide Jerry Dee Lewis, or JDL to use his hip-hop moniker, explains hip-hop's four elements. These consist of DJing, MCing, B-boying (or breakdancing) and graffiti writing.
Ex-Goldman programmer wins partial dismissal
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:49:17 -0700
A federal judge on Friday dismissed part of a criminal case accusing a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer of stealing proprietary computer code from the bank's lucrative high-frequency trading platform.
Missing Corot’s Co-Owner and Sued Sales Agent Were Prison Mates
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:35 -0700
In early 2007, when the art market was peaking, Tom Doyle and James Carl Haggerty weren’t hobnobbing in Manhattan, Miami or London.
Madoff investors win $12.74 mln in Merkin case
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:19:56 -0700
Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators, court records show.
Ex-bin Laden aide sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a prison guard
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:18:10 -0700
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK : An alleged trusted aide to Osama Bin Laden was re-sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment following a brutal assault on a prison guard, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in New York said.
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