Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'bethisrael'
March 1, 2008
Images from WNBC and WABC The police are looking for a man suspected of stabbing two Key Food employees, one of whom died at a hospital two hours after the afternoon attack. Other employees at the East Village store say James Gonzalez, a part-time maintenance worker, stabbed ex-girlfriend Tina Negron with a 10-inch knife, because he was upset over their breakup. Negron had been in the elevated manager's booth when Gonzalez apparently attacked. Bookkeeper......
Continue Reading "Stabbed Key Food Worker Dies, Ex-Boyfriend is Suspect"February 29, 2008
Two female Key Food employees at the Avenue A and East 4th Street store were attacked by a knife-wielding man. The police originally said one of the woman died, but it turns out that one is "clinging to life" while the other is in critical condition. The Sun reports the women were in the "elevated manager's booth" when the attack took place at 3:15PM. According to WNBC, the attacker may have been a delivery......
Continue Reading "Key Food Stabbing: 2 Injured in East Village Store"January 7, 2008
Natasha Lyonne – remember her? – has resurfaced, and not at the morgue! In fact, the young hellion seems to be doing quite well for herself – at least that’s the portrait painted by this convivial Times profile, in which reporter Robert Simonson smokes Marlboro Lights with her on the roof of Theater Row, where she’s to appear in the new Mike Leigh play Two Thousand Years. Though off the horse, the actress isn’t all......
Continue Reading "Natasha Lyonne Alive and Live Off-Broadway"February 20, 2007
Add "Do you play video games?" to the list of questions you might want to ask your surgeon. The Archives of Surgery published a study that shows a strong relationship between video game skills and a surgeon's abilities with laparoscopic procedures. Reuters reports the study's findings show out of the 33 Beth Israel surgeons surveyed, the nine doctors who played video games at least 3 hours a week made "37 percent fewer errors, performed 27......
Continue Reading "How About Super Monkey Trauma Center Ball?"December 3, 2006
Queens Hospital to Help the Neediest Helping the neediest this holiday season isn't just limited to canned food drives and dropping some change in those red Salvation Army kettles. AM New York reports that at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, almost 1,500 uninsured patients have been given low-cost birth control and counseling to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The service is in response to the high rate of unintended pregnancies over the past year: 49%......
Continue Reading "'illin - The Weekend Health Buzz"June 11, 2006
Honestly, we're stunned. Growing up in the East Village we've always taken pride in how well our neighborhood handles its diversity. We were raised firmly believing that if you were black, white, yellow, male, female, straight, gay, old, young, sober, drunk, high, local, tourist, etc., it just didn't matter. Even in the bad old days of crackheads and Bowery drunks you at least had the sense that if you were being beaten on the......
Continue Reading "Unacceptable: Drag Queen Beaten By Four Youths"May 5, 2006
(Boys and) Girls Just Want to Have Sun There are few things we enjoy more than seeing those orange people at the gym. You know who we're talking about: those people who clearly hit the tanning booth as often as they can during the week so they can parade those tangerine coats around all weekend. Well, it may be more than vanity that brings such devotees out for some sun worship. Some dermatological studies report......
Continue Reading "`illin: The Friday Health Buzz"February 23, 2006
Ooh - the Continuum Center for Health and Healing has started to use leeches in a treatment for osteoarthritis in the knee. Leeches have been used in other kinds of surgery, but apparently this is the first time leeches have been used to treat the knee. No one is sure why leeches are able to give osteoathritis sufferers relief, so the clinic is looking for more volunteers (it's run by Beth Israel, so it's not......
Continue Reading "Leechy Keen"August 16, 2004
In need of an original tattoo design? Park your ass or desired body part on a Con Ed manhole. That's not exactly what Liz Wallenberg did on Wednesday night, but that seemed to be the result. Skateboarding to a friend's show, she hit a bump in the road at 13th St. and 2nd Ave. After landing on the manhole, she felt the heat and then heard some sizzling, "I noticed it was kind of hot,......
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