Results tagged “alongisland”

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a construction accident on East 33rd St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck on 50th Ave. and 45th St. in Queens, and a shooting on Schenectady Ave. and Lincoln Pl. in Brooklyn.
• In three separate incidents yesterday, individuals were struck by subway trains. Two men were killed and the third was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
• Insurance fraud isn't brain surgery, until it is. A Staten Island man was sentenced yesterday to taking part in a scam where he was reimbursed for his-and-hers brain surgeries for himself and his wife.
• Two Queens detectives responding to a robbery call were hit by another car that sent their vehicle careening into the dining room of a family off Marathon Parkway.
• Advertise your New York nature on your chest with a t-shirt that shows others how to correctly eat a piece of pizza.
• A Long Island man infatuated with a co-worker at Wal-Mart and who learned that she had a boyfriend, let himself in to her Mastic home early in the morning and stabbed her sleeping boyfriend to death with a large hunting knife.
• First Canal Jeans, then Starbucks...now Target: The evolution of Flatbush Junction.

A Long Island woman is suing a medical lab in Rye Brook after her tissue sample was mislabeled, she mistakenly diagnosed with cancer and had a double mastectomy on her healthy breasts. Darrie Eason tells after she was told, post-mastectomy, that she never had cancer, Newsday, "I didn't know what to believe. They told me I had cancer and now they're telling me I didn't. I didn't know if the next day they were going to call me and say, 'Sorry, we made a mistake, you really do have cancer.'"

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at 178th Pl. in Queens, a bank robbery at White Plains Rd. in the Bronx, and a homicide on West 157th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, and a water rescue off 88th St. near Gracie Mansion..
• The suspected killer of FDNY Chief Ray Downey's nephew, who was tracked to California, killed himself yesterday when cornered by cops.
• East River State Park opened today. Be one of the first to visit.
• $1,000 goes a long way: the cash handed to Richard Johnson at the NY Post continues to gain him press at the Times.
• Perhaps in an attempt to take the edge off moving it from Gramercy, Manhattan, to College Point, Queens, the City wants to pour $1 billion into the new Police Academy.
• A Long Island husband was arrested for allegedly murdering his estranged wife in a Long Island bagel shop.
• The original Star Wars was release this weekend 30 years ago.
• Vice President Cheney delivers the commencement address at West Point.

A Long Island couple is suing a Manhattan fertility clinic for using the wrong sperm during in-vitro fertilization. Nancy and Thomas Andrews were having trouble conceiving a second child, so they went to the New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine to have Nancy's eggs fertilized with Thomas's sperm. But when baby Jessica was born in 2004 to the couple, they suspected something was wrong. From the Daily News:

Thomas Andrews is white and his wife is Dominican. But Jessica, who was born Oct. 19, 2004, has darker skin than either of them as well as "characteristics more typical of African or African-American descent," the lawsuit states.

Continue reading "Park Avenue Fertility Clinic in Hot Water"

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This morning, Governor Eliot Spitzer met with the families of victims from Wednesday's fire that killed ten people - nine children and one adult. Yesterday, 6-year-old Hassing Soumare, Mamadou Soumare's daughter and his last surviving relative after his three other children died with their mother, died from her injuries. He and his cousin Moussa Magassa, who owned the four-story building where the fire occured, prepared for funerals with other family members and friends. Magassa lost five children in the fire.

A Long Island Railroad train is stuck in an East River Tunnel, causing 30 minute delays in and out of Penn Station. The MTA says, "Please be advised that, as a measure of crowd control, the LIRR concourse at penn Station is temporarily not accessible via the 34th Street entrance. Customers are advised to use the LIRR entrance on 7th Avenue as an alternative." Yikes - good luck, LIRR commuters.

- Finally, napping kittens the size of your hand make for really, really cute videos.

Sometimes Gothamist thinks that more people than we suspect secretly hide issues of Cat Fancy in between Time Out and The New Yorker when not obsessing over their cats. We like to keep track of stories like the ones below to help build our case: