Results tagged “lowerbay”

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at New Utrecht Ave. and 62nd St. in Brooklyn, a man overboard approximately 23 miles south of Floyd Benett Field (lower bay), and a shooting on East 13th St. and Ave. B. in Manhattan.
• A grand jury is deciding whether the off-duty cop who shot a man during a fender-bender will be charged.
• A 23-year-old former aide of Councilman Dennis Gallagher testified before a grand jury that he sexually harassed her 2 1/2 years ago when she volunteered at his office.
• The widely lauded August Aichorn Center for Residential Care on West 106th St. in Manhattan is under fire after workers at the facility for seriously troubled young people allegedly sexually preyed on the inpatients, repeatedly raping them.
• Everyone knows the eternal NYC burger institutions, but New York magazine points out some good burger joints new to the scene.
• Passengers headed back to New Jersey after a night in Manhattan were delayed for several hours after a train became stuck in one of the tunnels leaving Penn Station. The train got stuck about 200 feet from the platform and approximately 900 passengers had to evacuate to another train.
• Yankee A-Rod has hit his 500th HR; now let's root for Mets pitcher Tom Glavine pitching his way to win #300 tonight.
• Martha Stewart's daughter is paying almost $30K a month to get pregnant.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on West 24th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, another shooting on Rockwell Place and Dekalb Ave. in Brooklyn, and yet another shooting at 92 -35 215th Place in Queens.
• Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James' female acquaintance made an amazing amount of money by buying properties from the city and then flipping them for huge profits.
• Phone records reveal that an upstate teenage driver may have been responding to a text message "What are you doing?" sent by a friend, moments before she ran into oncoming traffic, killing herself and four other just-graduated-from-high school young women.
• After drifting off course and running aground near the Ambrose Channel in New York's lower bay, the oil tanker White Sea was finally floated and moved for repairs at high tide.
• Lenox Hill Hospital was the point of arrival for seven sets of twins this week on East 77th St. Girls: 8; Boys: 6; Healthy: 14!
• A Westchester store is charging $55 for less than a liter of water.
• The young man who was accused of attempting to molest a girl in Queens, and was scared off by an alert and intuitive pit bull who started barking like crazy in response to her cries, turned himself in to police.
• Former U.S. Senator from New York Al D'Amato is expecting a child with this new wife, who is almost 30 years his junior, (she's 41).
• NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko died today from injuries sustained during a traffic stop early Monday morning, when he was shot twice in the face. He was 23 years old. We'll have further coverage tomorrow.

There are some very observant drivers on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and BQE. WCBS 2 reports that a number of drivers called 911 to report that a freighter ship was sinking in the New York Harbor. But it turns out the freighter, Dockwise Swan, is actually supposed to sink a little bit!

Real Estate site The Real Deal has detailed the priciest streets or micro-neighborhoods to live on in each of the five boroughs of NYC. Ironically, except for Manhattan, the most expensive streets in New York's four other boroughs lean heavily towards suburban idyll rather than luxurious urbanism. But we suppose that has always been an appeal of the outer boroughs: the ability to escape Manhattan's teeming population density. If you recently came into a large sum of money, here's where you should be house-hunting, in alphabetical order.