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Officials Confirm 3 Cases of Cholera in NYC
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK - New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, where thousands have died from the disease. A medical epidemiologist for the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene told The New York Times Saturday that all three people who were infected last month have recovered. Dr. Sharon Balter says the city typically sees an average of one cholera case per year. City health officials are now working with the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Trash, Accusations Pile Up After NYC Snow Job
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsTourists visiting New York City have been treated to a different sort of snow-blanketed vision: trash mountains. The city's Sanitation Department resumed residential garbage pickup this morning for the first time since Christmas Eve, though still only at 50 percent capacity, The New York Times reported. The cornucopia of trash was a side effect of the post-Christmas blizzard that coated much of the East Coast in more than a foot of snow and which, mysteriously, New York City had inordinate trouble clearing from its streets. Dana Chivvis for AOL News New York City resumed ...
East Digs Out From Blizzard; Travelers Struggle Home
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsThe East Coast dug out and travelers struggled to get home from the holiday today after a monster snowstorm walloped the region, disrupting transportation and stranding people in planes, trains and automobiles, not to mention in buses. Though the worst of the storm was over by late this morning, a swath of heavy snow and slick, sometimes impassable roads made flying, driving and even taking the train difficult if not impossible. More than 7,000 flights were canceled nationwide, The Associated Press reported. Blizzard warnings were in effect from the Carolinas to New England through early ...
Meet NY Gubernatorial Candidate Jimmy McMillan, of the 'Rent Is Too Damn High Party'
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 19) -- "Allow me to introduce myself. I represent the Rent Is Too Damn High Party." And so Jimmy McMillan, begloved and sporting a snazzy mustache and beard, introduced himself to New York voters Monday and stole the spotlight at the state's gubernatorial debate. It's an argument that certainly appeals to New York City residents. And McMillan, who said he wore gloves because of his exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam, also made clear he had an arch-progressive view on gay marriage. "If you want to marry a shoe, I'll marry you," he said. And yes, his colorfully-named ...
Glenn Beck Condemns Anti-Gay Attacks in New York [VIDEO]
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 14) -- New York City officials aren't the only ones to express their shock, dismay, outrage and disgust with a series of brutal anti-gay attacks police say were perpetrated by 10 street gang members last week (who have since been arrested and charged with hate crimes). In fact, one of the most recent strongest voices of condemnation has been none other than that of Fox News host Glenn Beck. On his show Wednesday night, Beck deliberately sidestepped what he said was "the main story of the day," the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, to segue into a long rumination on the ...
Brief but Strong Storm Sweeps Through NYC; 1 Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Sept. 17) -- Residents, utility crews and railroad workers were cleaning up debris Friday after a brief but fierce storm barreled through the city, tearing up trees, stripping roofs from homes, disrupting train service and killing at least one person. The National Weather Service was to dispatch investigators to assess whether a tornado touched down Thursday evening during the storm. Tornado warnings had been issued for Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Officials at Long Island Rail Road, the nation's largest commuter rail line, said crews worked through the night to clear tracks ...
Palin Comes Late to Ground Zero Mosque Debate
By not in system - AOL News(July 24) -- Sarah Palin has made the Ground Zero mosque famous in "red America" with her tweets to New Yorkers, asking them to stop its construction near the site where some 3,000 victims died horribly on 9/11 at the hands of Islamic terrorists. But here in the city where it happened we've been wrestling with this issue for a while. ...
Opinion: DC Is Hottest City in the World (Sorry, NYC)
By Dave George - AOL News(July 8) -- It's pretty stupid to brag about the weather in your hometown. You had nothing to do with it, no one cares, and everyone thinks you're a bore to prattle on about it. I mean, take Washington, D.C. Right now it's 90 degrees with high humidity. My head hurts and my thighs are sweating. (I'm told that outside my office it's much, much hotter.) D.C. is the hottest city in the world, and we are the toughest people on Earth to put up with it. Don't believe me? Check this out: The high temperature Wednesday in El Obeid, Sudan, was 97 degrees. Right now, as I write this, the temperature in ...
Court Rules New York City Can't Close 19 Schools
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 2) -- A state appellate court has ruled that New York City cannot close 19 schools it had deemed as "failing" in December. In its decision, the court agreed with a lower court ruling that the city had failed to provide adequate information to the public about the impacts of the closings on students and communities, as mandated by law. In its ruling Thursday, the court said the city provided "nothing more than boilerplate information about seat availability" and that it abused its power "by limiting the information they provided to the obvious: that students at phased-out schools would ...
NYC Vows to Use Science Against Subway Rats
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 16) -- Rats! They've plagued New York City for decades, and despite efforts to rid them from the subway system with traps and poison, subway riders still spot the unwelcome creatures on a regular basis. Now officials are looking more closely at what draws the rodents into the subway and keeps them there, with an eye to a tougher rat control plan to be put in place in a year or two. Frank Franklin II, AP A rat wanders subway tracks at Union Square in New York. The city hopes to have a new anti-rat plan in place in a year or two. "We're actually trying to measure what the factors are ...
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