Results tagged “ivorycoast”

The Staten Island homeless man who repeatedly attempted to lay claim to the SoHo Grand Hotel has pleaded guilty and faces a year in prison. Kouadio Kouassi is an immigrant from the Ivory Coast and has been jailed since last December. He repeatedly filed claims with the city's Dept. of Finance in an attempt to assume legal ownership of the $76 million boutique hotel. Upon sentencing, Kouassi will like be quickly released and then deported...

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A fatal car accident in Manhattan at 55th and 12th Avenue, a water rescue on West 50th and a three-alarm fire at a Bronx post office
• Cute animal maternal instincts alerts: A Central Park turtle tried to lay her eggs at Wollman Rink and there's a cute shot of a hawk and her baby hawk at City Birder
• The Post lists NYC's most 50 powerful women: Mayor Bloomberg's squeeze Diana Taylor is #7, Ivanka Trump is #23, and the Post's Cindy Adams and Liz Smith are also on the list
• The Times looks at the struggles of the former child soldier from the Ivory Coast; for instance, after detaining him for months, immigration authorities released him on the random and unknown streets of Lower Manhattan at 10PM
• A Rap-A-Thon was held this past weekend in Harlem, and profanity was not allowed
• Queens want to attract more tourist dollars (our number one idea: Talk to the MTA about more consistent subway service)
• Chuck Hagel says he'd like Mayor Bloomberg to be his running mate on a presidential ticket
• The child stabbed with a stick by another child is still in a coma; his father says, "God is going to give him life again. That is what I need - I believe it."
• After screwing up evidence, the NYPD is finally looking for ways to better organize its evidence-tracking system by issuing RFPs to various vendors

The Greenwich Village dancer, Vado Diomande, who fell ill because of anthrax exposure made a public appearance yesterday at the Pennsylvania hospital where he is being treated. During a press conference, Diomande thanked his doctors and did a little dance for the cameras. Diomande was hospitalized last month and caused an antrhax scare when he collapsed during a performance. Diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, the Ivory Coast native had a very slim chance of survival, but lives to drum and dance another day.